Translation of "groupe des fournisseurs de londres " (French → English) :

41. Believes that an open and transparent internal market, where all EU and third country companies respect the acquis communautaire in the field of energy, can help strengthen the negotiating position of EU energy suppliers vis-à-vis external competitors, which is particularly important for the potential of further coordinating external energy purchasing at the EU level; calls on the EU to consider the establishment of a joint gas purchase agency, and the mechanisms needed for this, in order to counterbalance the monopolistic position of dominant external suppliers; notes that the reciprocity principle must be used to guide relations ...[+++]with EU and third-country energy suppliers; stresses the need for the Commission, in its relations with third country energy suppliers, to take into account, and be transparent about, the impact of its decisions on consumer prices;

19. Recalls that as a consequence of the 2008 decision of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on the exemption rule for India, China offered similar nuclear technology exports to Pakistan; deeply regrets the position taken by several European leaders in 2010 in favour of granting India full membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) namely French President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Merkel; calls on EU Member States to abandon the idea of a NSG membership for India ahead of the June 2011 NSG meeting in the Netherlands because ...[+++]it would strengthen and formalize double standards and severely weaken international efforts in the field of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament in accordance with the Action Plan agreed to at the 2010 NPT Review Conference; urges EU Member States to revoke the 2008 exemption decision for India and to only grant India NSG membership rights in case the country signs, ratifies and implements all relevant international nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament norms such as NPT, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT);

– Mr President, as a Member of the European Parliament for London, many of my constituents – as you can expect – are very concerned about the impact of this not only on Europe’s largest financial centre, but on its two largest financial centres: London is home to the City and to the Canary Wharf Group.

publicly condoning, denying or grossly trivialising the crimes defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal appended to the London Agreement of 8 August 1945, directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin when the conduct is carried out in a manner likely to incite to violence or hatred against such a group or a member of such a group.

4. Condemns the leading role of the German chairmanship of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, as well as that of the French EU Presidency, in the dismantling of the NSG's safeguard functions for the sake of the short-term profits of their nuclear industry, and applauds the six members which tried to resist the deal;

I believe consumers can see the benefit of choice and competition if they can be sure that if something goes wrong they can have a speedy remedy in a local court and they do not have to chase down a bad provider to Lisbon, Paris, Warsaw or London to have their rights recognised.