The final problem, Mr Commissioner, is the fixing by the Commission of a new rate of increase which has implications for the Parliament's room for manoeuvre.

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I realize, of course, that there are conservatives who want to keep capital punishment. . .

I am very well aware that your.

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Mr Thorn Mr Welsh Mr Thorn Mrs Ewing Mr Thorn Mr Seeler Mr Thorn Mr Beazley Mr Thorn Lord O'Hagan Mr Thorn Mr Van Minnen Mr Thorn ....

We are pleased to note, in fact, that this was also the conclusion reached by our nine national governments.

Of course we know there is leave to appeal in France we are not ignorant, after all.

Most of the tasks that will have to be shouldered by the Presidency in this area will be related to or dictated by the timetable of international conferences.

I am not thinking particularly of

The Communist and Allies Group has

Parliament adopted the resolution)

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We regard this as a first rational step towards tangible simplifications.

Thorn Wait a moment.

Why is the Commission or the Council not capable of following Parliament's advice and, for instance, excluding the agreement with Canada from the general fisheries negotiations?

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Be this as it may, let us look at things realistically.

3 million unemployed on the country in the next few years.

Shallow drilling may be needed to obtain new rock samples.

President I call Mr Petronio.

Mr President, you are a convinced European.

Thorn currencies is now of crucial importance to all the Member States.

There is consequently no case for urgency.

These are the clear wishes of my Group, to which we give priority.

I call Question No 92, by Mr Paisley

Elles socialist States ultimately can only be kept on the socialist road by force of arms and oppression and not by democratic means.

Mr Richard. I had not anticipated that supplementary question, since it is very far indeed from the original question.

Mr Adam. I must declare an interest, Mr President.

motion for a resolution by Mr Linkohr on behalf of the Socialist Group on energy policy and the threat to oil supplies (Doc. 1 490 80)

That is what I am asking Mr Thorn, President of the Council, to do.

President. I call Mr Damseaux.

Mr Damseaux. (FR) Mr President, in the two minutes available to me I will make just six points.

Subject Japanese trade surplus with the Community

It cannot replace political will, and yet political will is necessary, because Europe is necessary.

We have taken careful note of his points and would be only too glad to return to them in a constructive spirit during the November debate.

I call Lord Harmar Nicholls on a point of order.

That is the essential purpose.

Colonel Thorn was part of the plot.

While the Council is, in a sense, an intergovernmental body, the Commission is not and must not be one.

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