Either we need increases, in which case they should be approved without cuts elsewhere, or we do not, in which case they should have been rejected.

But in order to provide these, we need to know much more about disability in the Com munity.

We also held an extraordinary General Affairs Council as a result of the seriousness of the crisis.

Meanwhile, as the crisis has deepened, a new consensus about Europe s monetary union has emerged.

There may be governments who treat this affair according to the maxim that the Members of the European Parliament ought to be kept busy with their personal and administrative problems, and in that way they will not have very much time to bother themselves with politics.

Acknowledging that national efforts are critical to prevent the deepening of the humanitarian crisis,

We are aware of this fact, and yet we are incapable of formulating a joint policy.

2.3 The increasing penetration of cheap and doubtful products is worsening the crisis in the European white goods industry.

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As a result , the ECB 's policy rates have been cut by 3 percentage points since the intensification of the crisis last October .

Governments undoubtedly merit praise for stabilizing expectations, and thus preventing crises from worsening.

The political, economic and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe is worsening with serious implications for the security situation.

With so many lives at stake, what can be done to avert an intensification of the Zimbabwe crisis?

Mr Boyes, rapporteur. Mr President, when I spoke at the last plenary session in the Vredeling debate, I said that we were living in a period of great crisis a crisis in a capitalist system that is undoubtedly affect ing people unequally.

(3) Strengthening the current legislation

It concerns the Community's contribution to combating world hunger and the aid to be granted to the ACPs and the developing countries which, we believe, should be considerably increased.

4) strengthening prudential arrangements in the banking sector, and

2.3 The advancement of cheap imports from Asian countries and Turkey as well as from within the EU itself (due to different tax systems) is worsening the crisis in the European white goods industry.

In both the United States and Europe, the costs of this constraint on policy has amplified the crisis and obscured the way out.

It is therefore obvious that rules need to be tightened up.

Is the Commission aware of the deepening crisis affecting the incomes of small farmers in Ireland, and what action does it propose to take to remedy the situation?

As a result, they risk aggravating the potential challenges.

(50) Step up action to combat drug trafficking and drug addiction

1.1 Fostering a culture of prevention and tightening up legal texts

avoiding waste by making greater use of clean tech nologies and by producing environment friendly ('green') products,

We thus need more rigorous checks.

A clause to this effect, Mr President would lead primarily to a real improvement in the situation of textile workers in the Third World, and also to less distortion in international competition.

These new units, which are financed and maintained by countries outside the Community, the United States and Japan for example, will increase European production capacities in sectors which everyone today recognizes as being already in surplus.

Because of the tightening of censorship the magazine had to be closed down.

We feel that the Commission could have been a lot quicker and that the draft budget could have been submitted by the beginning of January.

It seems extraordinary that this Parliament, which represents the people of Europe, is not addressing this question this week, given the deepening of the crisis since the Commission last spoke.

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One negative consequence is the persistent deepening of income inequality.

Amendment 3 ( reinforce the provisions on health surveillance ) (Article 8)

And then I should like to say something about certain aspects of the supplementary budget for 1980.

Should we toughen and change transport legislation?

Parliament undoubtedly remembers that during the debate we had set ourselves two goals, namely not to overstep the agricultural budget for 1981 and to avoid all unjustified increases in expenditure in the coming year.

All this needs to be tightened up.

Some debtors default the debtor problems then become the banks' problem while others are forced to cut back their expenditures, deepening the downturn.

(4) Strengthen EU monitoring and enforcement regime.

Higher self sufficiency in forest based products and keener competition in the short term

Increasing penalties might also have a deterrent effect.

Hence there is some merit in tightening emission limit values for nitrogen oxides.

I hope it is clear that this renders the text more specific.

After the intensification of the crisis mid September 2008 , as inflationary pressures receded , in full consistency with our mandate , we decided to reduce our policy interest rate rapidly between October 2008 and May 2009 .