Traduction de «nous a très » (Français → Anglais) :

Sometimes, in our daily routine, we risk forgetting what an achievement this is – and that is why, Holy Father, I very much appreciate the way you speak to our consciences and remind us to shoulder our responsibilities and make the most of our huge potential —for social justice, for rapprochement between people and peoples, and for refugees, whom we should not fear.

Frankly, I have to say to Mr Bolkestein, if this goes through tomorrow – and I hope that we will actually have the opportunity to discuss in more detail and look at some amendments that you will accept – the fact we have come in at the end of the process has made it very difficult for those of us who want change to put forward acceptable amendments. If this goes through, you will have got off pretty lightly and I hope you will give us assurances, firstly that you will properly justify this grade and position, and secondly, that we will be scrutinising every move you make when you put it in place, to make sure that it is done properly.

We are of course still a very long way from that, if we look at this really excellent paper and the very pragmatic but at the same time very accurate paper by the Commission.

I would greatly welcome it if this working party linking Parliament and the Commission could start very soon, in order to get those within Parliament who are interested – and we three from the group of the European People's Party/European Democrats are very much so – involved in the process in good time and thereby avoid various problems with timescales.

There are rules. We are working and making our own preparations, but, ladies and gentlemen, just because we are going to integrate some very poor regions in Eastern Europe into the European Union as of 2003 – and you know full well just how very impoverished they are – does not mean that, suddenly, because of enlargement, we shall think that poor regions in the West or the South, or impoverished outermost regions, have no more problems.

I would also state very clearly in this Chamber that anyone who goes beyond this fails to understand the processes of adjustment and the structural changes at present under way in agriculture and in rural areas and will provoke a debate which might lead some day to Brussels’ being told: we are sorry, the Commission is no doubt responsible for foreign trade and for competition law in the area of agricultural policy, but responsibility for everything else must again lie with ourselves because we are no longer going to allow the structures concerned to go downhill.