Traduction de «beaucoup d'entre nous » (Français → Anglais) :

There is the single market, the lifting of border controls and the introduction of the single currency.

I would also like to sincerely thank the Belgian Presidency, which has shown enormous commitment in its efforts to facilitate a compromise between the Council and Parliament, and I think that if we are able to reach agreement on Wednesday, and I very much hope we will, it will be entirely due to the excellent way in which the Belgian Presidency has handled the negotiations.

Meanwhile, I would just like to highlight three points from the report: paragraph 13 where we would like to see in next year the Commission report much more concrete evidence of the employment gains that this multiannual programme has produced, not because we doubt what those employment gains might be, but we would like to see some hard data next time around.

Our rapporteur, Mr Clegg, has done a good job, making the Commission's proposal clearer and more specific and setting out the necessary conditions for that rapid conclusion of the legislative process which so many of us hope for and for which we too will vote tomorrow.

Senator Hébert did not spend a long time in the traces, as so many of us have had to do in order to understand the simple realities, the dreams and the hopes of the young - the ability to see with the heart, with which too many of us have difficulty reaquainting ourselves, and the ability to see with the heart that was the special prerogative of de Saint-Exupéry's Le petit Prince.

This must be taken much further by: - ensuring smooth operation of the internal market: further deregulation, based on the Molitor working party set up for this purpose, combined with redefinition of the public service objectives, streamlined, transparent procedures and improved decision-making structures; and - making full use of the instruments available to facilitate industrial change, putting the accent on small businesses and taking account of the regional imbalances; using the Structural Funds, particularly the Community initiative programmes, to facilitate the development of competitive clusters of activities, combined with improved training, dissem ...[+++]ination of technology and closer partnerships between big and small firms, etc. The competitive position of European industry In recent years European industry's competitiveness has improved considerably: - the European Union had a trade deficit with the USA in the late '80s, but improved its position appreciably in the early '90s when it cut its trade deficit by 90%, from ECU 21 billion in 1991 to ECU 2 billion in 1993; - European companies' financial structures are far healthier and their average debt ratio is well below their rivals'; - unit labour cost trends over the last ten years in the European Union compare favourably with those of its leading rivals: between 1980 and 1993 real unit wage costs fell more sharply in the Union (down 9.7%) than in the USA (1.2%) and Japan (8.3%).