Translation of "Vous le voyez sous le jour le plus favorable " (French → English) :

I would like to know how you are going to make a situation that is not easy in any case – given that sugar and many other difficult issues are on the agenda – look a little more positive.

Some of us are very supportive. Listen, I've supported VIA Rail for over 13 or 14 years Hon. David Collenette: Yes, I understand that.

If you look at the agenda, which I have before me now, you will see that before your report, we are due to have a statement by the Council and the Commission on the economic and employment situation, and deal with the Figueiredo report and the Bouwman report.

It must also help support them, in particular, aside from all the details which have been blown up out of all proportion, when they come up against such an indiscriminate killing frenzy, which is all the more dangerous because it is secretly supported by external powers, powers which are not even European, if you get my drift, and which are taking advantage of an unstable situation to pull strings behind the scenes, working through these fanatics.

Do you see it going in favour of our need for security, or do you see something more on respect of the Charter rights side?

Although the Community is pleased to welcome Japanese investment, like any other investment, it has several times expressed the wish that such investment should fit harmoniously into the industrial fabric of the regions in question (for example where subcontracting is concerned. Direct Japanese investment, which totalled USD 19.6 billion in the 1987 financial year, represented 14.1% of direct Japanese investment abroad. The Commission attaches the greatest importance to increasing Community investment in Japan, which has until now remained at a relatively modest level, largely because of the unfavourable ...[+++] climate for foreign investment in Japan. The ratio of Japanese investment in the Community to Community investment in Japan is at present 15 to 1. In December 1986 the Community and Japan agreed to set up an industrial cooperation centre with the aim of encouraging contacts between European and Japanese firms and also helping European firms to gain access to the Japanese market, for example through appropriate training for their executives and the provision of useful market information. The centre was opened in Tokyo on 2 June 1987 for a trial period of two years. As part of its ever-expanding export promotion programme the Commission finances market research and participation by European firms in Japanese trade events. It also provides regular financing for an Executive Training Programme which enables some 50 young European executives to spend 18 months studying the Japanese language and Japanese business methods. The tenth programme of this type began in April of this year.