Translation of "Une rue aux environs de La Havane " (French → English) :

A. whereas several million people have taken to the streets in Cairo and across Egypt throughout the summer; whereas there have been a number of violent clashes between Egypt’s military government and those loyal to former President Morsi; whereas an estimated 850 people have died and others have been injured as a result of the violent clashes, including British cameraman Mick Deane, who worked for Sky News, and British teenager Deqa Hassan, who lost her leg in a suspected suicide bombing in Cairo; whereas thousands of people have required medical treatment for injuries;

The Spanish growers have already taken to the streets and today, in about 40 minutes’ time, direct growers in Italy, too, will be demonstrating in the streets in Milan and the province of Latina, offering consumers fresh cucumbers and other fruit and vegetables to show that they are healthy foods and important for a healthy, balanced diet.

Tomorrow's information day will take place at the ‘‘Albert Borschette’’ Conference Centre (ABCC), 36 Rue Froissart, Brussels, with opening speeches by EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn and EU Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki at 10h00 followed by a press conference at approximately 10h40 in ABCC Room 4C.

– (ES) Mr President, Mrs Lehtomäki has called the Sakharov Prize into question and I would like to say to her that the Women in White are defenceless women, wives, mothers and daughters of Cuban political dissidents, who make a huge effort to come from many different Cuban towns to meet peacefully and silently on Sundays and to walk together through the streets of Havana dressed in white.

A further 10 000 people were evacuated and around 30 000 people had to spend the first night on the streets.

With the phasing out of the sale of traditional light bulbs in the EU by September 2012, in the next few years about 8 billion incandescent lamps in European homes, offices and streets will need to be replaced by more energy efficient lighting solutions.