Capital outflow is now about USD 25 billion a year and yet foreign investment is less than USD 3 billion and falling. 	contrast
On the other hand there is not yet compelling evidence to justify the total rejection of the Commission. 	adv
And yet it would appear that we are at the beginning now of an entirely new legal system just for the sake of a few fraudulent officials. 	concession
Some may not yet share the broad desire for improvement, however. 	adv
I cannot resist pointing out, Mr President, that we do not yet have computers or Internet access in this splendid building. 	adv
We promised to eliminate all forms of discrimination against the girl child, yet statistics show that a girl child is discriminated against from the earliest stages of life, through her childhood and into adulthood. 	concession
I ask the President-in-Office of the Council to talk to the Council, talk to the Commission, and say why this is not yet being enforced. 	adv
Animals are suffering and therefore Europe is not yet a civilised society in this regard. 	adv
We have to recognise that the capacity of NGOs in the region is not yet as well developed as any of us would wish. 	adv
Mrs Halonen only just managed to fit in a mention of information society - I think right in the last sentence of her speech - and yet, according to a paper that I received from the Commission last week, we are to have an e-Europe initiative presented at Helsinki, a paper entitled "Information Society for All" . 	concession
The Commission has not yet received such justification which would enable it to study an amendment to the Regulation's annex. 	adv
They supported it in the debate on Monday in which they stated clearly and unequivocally that they would be supporting this proposal, and yet today they back out of it and they fail to adopt it. 	concession
But Parliament is not yet a full partner and that must be our goal over the next few years. 	adv
Mr President, there is one dog that has not yet barked in this debate, and I should just like to draw attention to the radical failure of the Dehaene report to deal adequately - mentioning it only in passing - with the regional aspect of government in Europe. 	adv
I do not yet know the precise form. 	adv
This is a sensible measure; yet this relatively straightforward technical measure has already taken 18 months to get to this point of second reading. 	concession
It is urgent because we have not yet defined how to control the spread of small arms and light weapons, nor have we strengthened the code to cover conventional arms. 	adv
None of the applicant countries meet the Copenhagen criteria yet, otherwise by definition they would be members now, so what is the difference with Turkey? 	adv
Our support has not, however, always gone to the most effective interventions, and has not yet reached the level needed to have the impact required. 	adv
It has, however, not yet been possible to verify some of the most serious allegations concerning large-scale killings.	adv
Two weeks after the world is advised of the most brutal genocide following elections in an attempt to establish the very essence of democracy which we, as Parliamentarians, above all should uphold, we are not yet in gear and not seen as relevant to the solution by any commentators. 	adv
And yet, this breach is taken lightly. 	contrast
We have been so busy reconstituting ourselves we have not yet had the capacity to do our homework and our research, so if the hearings bring to light issues of substance and public concern about which we as yet know nothing, we in this House would have a duty to Europe to act and we will act - certainly, my group will. 	adv
And yet they continue to pursue him with threats of yet more trials.	concession
Although we do not yet have the ozone strategy because of the paralysis in the Commission, we know that sooner or later the emissions limit values will have to come in line with it. 	adv
We are not yet as transparent as we could be or ought to be on our individual group and collective expenditures financed by public purse. 	adv
Mr President, I hope the President-in-Office of the Council will indulge us in putting forward possibilities for the next IGC even if he is not yet in a position to react formally to them. 	adv
And yet the hard work she has put into it has made some progress towards a position that all the political groups can support.	concession
It has now been conclusively proven scientifically and yet we here in the European Union are not capable nor even have the courage ... 	concession
Before Parliament today there are 12 compromise amendments dealing with important issues where, in the spirit of the Amsterdam Treaty yet to be ratified, I am pleased to present the results of a recent trialogue between myself, the Commission and the Council. 	adv
This aspiration has not yet been accommodated in law. 	adv
Britain of course is not yet allowed to join by Mr Rupert Murdoch. 	adv
Its legislators are not yet sufficiently progressive to meet the challenges ahead. 	adv
We need something longer term, particularly as the Amsterdam Treaty - which has not yet been ratified in all the Member States - will have greater powers in the social area than any previous Treaty. 	adv
While we have managed to reach consensus on issues such as pay and taxation, the question of employee consultation within firms has not yet been adequately explored. 	adv
If we had had an agreement in the OECD, or if we have one, that seems to me to be a good prelude to negotiation in the WTO, which has not yet been agreed but which we have argued in favour of. 	adv
And yet we have watched since 1979, when Mrs Thatcher removed exchange controls in the United Kingdom, an investment drain and a portfolio investment drain from the United Kingdom to other parts of the world: from 6 % to 31 % out of the EEC, which the Commission now admits is the actual figure. 	concession
In any casual glance at the National Association of Pension Funds in my country you would have to search long and hard to find a workers' representative, and yet there are many representatives from the City of London. 	contrast
It is obvious that we are not speaking yet about membership. 	adv
Decisions have not been taken yet but it shows already that the Commission wants to accelerate as much as possible and, insofar as it has influence, the process of institutional reform of the EU itself. 	adv
Latvia is not at the negotiating stage yet although, as I said earlier, very significant progress has been made and there is a perspective. 	adv
As regards the role of the common foreign and security policy, it is clear that Parliament and the EU institutions are obsessed with the development of a common defence policy, yet the question of whom we are defending ourselves against has never been clearly answered. 	concession
I am not convinced that we yet have those institutions for bringing such dictators to book. 	adv
The answer is that we, the developed world, are doing very little indeed, yet we are asking Latin American to bear the burden of the adjustment. 	concession
I am not happy that many of the Member States have not yet done their homework. 	adv
Seven countries have not yet drawn up their plans for conservation, amongst them France, Germany and Luxembourg. 	adv
And yet we in the EU tend to regard Poland as having inefficient agriculture. 	concession
Unfortunately, the PES is not yet lucky enough to have me. 	adv
Month after month we have heard Members of this European Parliament demanding ever tougher action in Kosovo, and yet we discover in the General Affairs Council that the countries these Members represent are the countries which are not prepared to take action on Kosovo. 	concession
Year after year we have to mention in our accounts that so much money has been lost to Parliament and we do not know yet whether there is any chance of recovering it from the insurance companies. 	adv
Have the services had time to count yet? 	adv
Mr President, in Mr Christodoulou's report - in the explanatory statement - there is a wonderful line that says this 'provides a long-term solution, since it has not been unilaterally denounced by any of the three institutions concerned' - yet. 	adv
Yet' is my word, because Parliament has not yet voted on this report. 	adv
But I seek the help of the Commission now to clarify those areas of doubt which will arise when Members see this, especially over lines B5-321 - action for the economic and social areas like cooperative mutuals, etc, - where a large proportion of the money has not yet been utilised and there does not seem to be a way of utilising it. 	adv
Mr President, I always like it when Terry Wynn speaks in tongues but I do not think it is Pentecost yet. 	adv
We have not yet analysed all the replies, so I do not know its overall reaction. 	adv
Yet the action programme, to be proposed by the Commission, is not yet a fully-fledged urban competence for the European Union. 	adv
The attention that we must pay to buildings but are not yet paying is a crucial aspect of these reports and I recommend the practical effects of those to all of us. 	adv
I do not think that many people in our own countries have yet grasped the immense historic step which enlargement represents for Europe. 	adv
Very few of our own people yet understand that sometime over the next ten years we will see a Europe which will stretch from Portugal to Poland, from Scotland to Sicily, a Europe which will be almost half as large again in land area and a third larger in terms of population and in terms of consumers within the single market. 	adv
I am not convinced yet that the proposals from the European side are going to replace that dependency which they have been landed with. 	adv
In my opinion the Commission and the Council have not yet addressed this issue to a sufficient extent. 	adv
I raised the item again, earlier this year; that is a matter that to my knowledge has not yet been referred to any committee of this House although it was the decision of the House, as I say, in September of last year. 	adv
Unfortunately, even if all these extensive repairs and the construction of an effective and secure shelter for reactor 4 can be completed quickly, there will be no guarantees and, in my view, no question but the whole project will still be environmentally unsafe because the technology to render the dismantled reactor safe, on the one hand, and to eliminate the radioactive waste, on the other, does not yet exist. 	adv
We have not yet managed to tax in accordance with any sensible rule, for instance alcohol strength. 	adv
This will only increase as many people do not yet realize what is going to happen to them very soon. 	adv
Finally, I would urge the three Member States which have not yet ratified the EUROPOL convention to do so without delay. 	adv
As I said, the matter has been raised by the Transport Ministers but Ecofin have not yet decided whether to place it on the agenda. 	adv
No decision has yet been taken by ECOFIN. 	adv
Indeed, in the Amsterdam Treaty which has not yet been ratified, of course, there is an additional Union obligation to give environmental considerations a higher priority. 	adv
Having said that, several of my colleagues see no reason why we should not support it, and I remain to be persuaded that we should support it between now and voting time tomorrow; so do not give up hope yet, Mr Brinkhorst. 	adv
We cannot do that just yet because six Member States have yet to notify us of the implementation measures. 	adv
Unfortunately we do not have it yet, but I would like to think that if the Member States comply with what we seek from them and we get the information, we will have the implementing report early next year, at which time we will be able to give you a complete answer to the basic point you have raised. 	adv
Could you please define these measures, provide an estimate of the total cost of them, specify how they could be applied and outline the criteria for the allocation of these yet undefined measures? 	adv
Should there be any doubts we would have to say to Slovakia that it is not yet a member of the family of democratic nations. 	adv
Mr President, the compatibility of the MAI with environmental protection has not yet been sufficiently addressed by the negotiating parties. 	adv
A decision has not yet been taken concerning the particular areas that will qualify for Objective 1 under the new tranche from the year 2000-2006. 	adv
Does this mean that the Commission will take no action to forbid the issue of tickets which have already been sold, even though many of these tickets have not yet been issued but merely applied for? 	adv
I am not in a position to announce a final outcome yet but I can assure the honourable Member that all the points she has raised have been taken very fully into consideration. 	adv
However, I will ask her this about the future of the KONVER programme: if the answer from the Commission is that the areas are going to be eligible under the new Objective 2, we have yet to really understand what the mechanism is going to be which enables them to qualify. 	adv
Many pressure groups working in this field will contend that their priorities have not yet been properly addressed at all, let alone evaluated. 	adv
I say to the honourable Member that the Treaty of Amsterdam is not in force yet, but the Treaty does - as he rightly says - include a commitment to improving animal welfare. 	adv
One of the reasons why it is important to stress that is that the European Parliament, when this is finally seen through to a directive, will have been responsible for a change in domestic practice in the United Kingdom about which so few people yet know. 	adv
Of course, we have still got to deal with the recovery of some of the money which has not yet been got back by the Commission, and these things are being considered and dealt with by the police authorities in at least two countries. 	adv
I should also like to pay tribute to Mr McMillan-Scott, because I remember how, when this started in 1989, he was almost alone - but I always supported him - in seeking the truth of this fairly sordid matter, where pockets were lined and where the people who lined their pockets have not, as far as I know, paid anything back yet or been officially asked to do so. 	adv
I recognize that we have just moved into a new building and the full scenes are not yet available on our television sets but it is an issue that the administration needs to address. 	adv
We have recently had a report that some 60 % of all transport internal market directives have yet to be transposed by the Member States. 	adv
Of course it would be helpful if all the Member States had similar statutory requirements of financial accounts, and that is something which is yet to come. 	adv
Finally, I welcome the commitment to enlargement but I hope we can give attention to the European Conference because I believe it offers the opportunity for a genuine European political area which will allow us to develop dialogue with countries who are not yet ready to join the European Union or are negotiating, so that we can make them feel part of our family as soon as possible. 	adv
Firstly, is there any indication yet as to whether the Americans will retain forces in Bosnia and, if so, will they actually be in Bosnia or over the horizon in Hungary? 	adv
I have to tell him that no decision has yet been reached by the American Government though the matter is under consideration. 	adv
Agreement has yet to be reached on the rest. 	adv
We have done the technical work but we have not yet sold the message to the public. 	adv
But it is not yet possible to abandon the use of nuclear power for the generation necessary for some of the instruments in deep space. 	adv
We do not have that yet; we will need to do that. 	adv
Mr President, the amendments to the main report - not the Euratom report - are not yet available. 	adv
The fusion programme has not yet produced any energy. 	adv
We do not have a definitive statement yet about what exactly is intended by this committee. 	adv
This has not yet been officially confirmed but I believe it to be the case. 	adv
A further message is that no country is in the European Union yet. 	adv
The result is the destruction of another species in Antarctica and its waters, which has a very fragile environment and, ironically, where the world has decided to preserve the resources on land but has yet to make similar decisions in its oceans. 	adv
I am delighted that the procedures seem to be improving although most colleagues would agree that they are not yet at a satisfactory state as regards the proposals that come from the Commission and their treatment by us and the Council. 	adv
The current series of discussions have continued all through the autumn and are not yet at an end, but it is quite clear that we must come to some form of formal decision about the reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases in Kyoto - in particular CO2 - and that must be done by the end of the year. 	adv
To start with the last question, there is not an entirely clear picture yet on participation in the conference. 	adv
I believe there is neglect as far as the last one is concerned for which none of the Irish truckers have been paid yet. 	adv
Unfortunately, other Member States have not yet fully implemented the European legislation. 	adv
The full extent of the damage to the environment that this practice causes is not yet evident, but it was of such concern that an inquiry into the environmental aspects of the common agricultural policy as a whole was launched. 	adv
This report has not yet been published. 	adv
The issue of convergence is now itself the subject of a further Green Paper, not yet circulated to mere Members of this Parliament, from DG XIII. 	adv
I do not yet know whether Mr Sawyer has or has not agreed to accede to my request to withdraw the code of practice. 	adv
Perhaps some sort of compromise should be found between the Commission playing a lead role and the CEPT playing the lead role in terms of being the spokespersons, simply because some Member States may not yet be in a position to adopt that. 	adv
As the details of the operation and in particular the relationship between ARBED and the Spanish companies which are negotiating for up to 50 % of the capital of CSI, have yet to be finalized, no notification has been made to date and no investigations have been carried out in relation to the concentration. 	adv
Cultural projects have a great potential in our Community framework - a potential not yet realised, unfortunately. 	adv
I have it here, I have only just received it and have not had time to study it yet, but what is clear is that it is asking us in this Parliament to support economic development in Turkey. 	adv
Again, when we talk about this in terms of the Bowe report, there is no specific reference to such an ethical committee, because it has yet to be established. 	adv
What does concern me in the proposal from the Commission for the office in Ireland was the discovery that the Commission had already leased a working area in Dublin, outside the normal places of work of the European Union, for workers whose recruitment had not yet been approved - a fact made even more reprehensible by the existing agreement to freeze staff numbers within the Commission. 	adv
The Union's broad economic guidelines are yet to be fully adopted by the Council. 	adv
The linkage between the European Community and the Member States is going to be vital for the future and we do not yet know how this relationship is going to take place. 	adv
Sadly, so far at least - although next week there is a vote in the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights - we have yet to see a Commission proposal which includes an ethical dimension. 	adv
A compromise has been put forward, which is not yet acceptable. 	adv
It is not yet always as easy as we wish it to be, or indeed as we fondly might believe it to be. 	adv
We have brought ourselves to the point of accepting that, although it may not come out of the IGC, for indirect tax, but not yet for direct tax. 	adv
There are a number of colleagues who are not yet here and there are a number of people who are still listening to the bells that are ringing in the corridor. 	adv
Fines are introduced, under Article 171 of the Treaty. They have been introduced rather laboriously but they have yet to be applied. 	adv
Secondly, in deciding the future of Objective 2 regions, will the Commission take into account that Objective 2 regions which have received support have been able to deal with the problem of industrial decline in the past but are still not yet able to show value-added production, and will therefore need to have ongoing support beyond 1999 if they are to regenerate the traditional industrial areas. 	adv
It is simply disgraceful that the system is not yet computerized. 	adv
They have not yet touched Peru because they have not had much cooperation. 	adv
That is not the position yet. 	adv
Obviously it was not tabled within the deadline and I have yet to receive a very clear explanation. 	adv
It has proposed a new five-year transitional period from 1996 for each product not yet registered, starting from the date of application, instead of from the date originally agreed. 	adv
And at the same time it must contain aid for Member States willing but not yet able to participate. 	adv
Lastly, I hope that they will recognize that we do not yet have the framework programme on water and that they will therefore encourage the Commission to reach agreement on that so that we can begin to work jointly. 	adv
I have to report to the House a sad case of discrimination because I have never been filmed yet and I feel sorry about that. 	adv
This was a report prepared at a time when our Swedish friends had not yet joined the Union, and there has been a technical problem. 	adv
As I have pointed out in my reply to the question, the Council has not entered into detailed discussion of the draft convention, so that sort of detail has not yet been considered by the Council. 	adv
I want to thank the Commission for its efforts to meet the deadline for the cohesion report, but I regret that we have not yet had the communication on urban policy which was due to come forward in 1996, and we would like to see that at the beginning of 1997. 	adv
Obviously the third example, Turkey, is a much more sensitive question, and we have not yet been able to get the right balance of confidence between the institutions: between, on the one hand, the Commission's view of the code of conduct and therefore its desire to have its freedom of manoeuvre and, on the other, that of Parliament, which does not yet have the confidence that the Commission will do what we have asked it to do. 	adv
Obviously the third example, Turkey, is a much more sensitive question, and we have not yet been able to get the right balance of confidence between the institutions: between, on the one hand, the Commission's view of the code of conduct and therefore its desire to have its freedom of manoeuvre and, on the other, that of Parliament, which does not yet have the confidence that the Commission will do what we have asked it to do. 	adv
This investigation is being carried out by the Commission and the matter has not yet been referred to the General Affairs Council. 	adv
People have grave concerns at the moment because in the absence of the novel foods directive - which is not yet in place - we do not yet have a product-approval system of sufficient standing to deal with these products. 	adv
That information has not yet been received. I would ask you to ensure that it is sent, Mr President. 	adv
I have had no reply yet. 	adv
Compensation has not yet been fully paid out. 	adv
Whether we go to a panel is something that has yet to be decided because we are still in the process of consultation. 	adv
Nobody has yet been brought to justice for this terrorist act nor the many bombings of offices, houses, cars and political offices in the occupied part of Cyprus. 	adv
That is the absent tribal part that has not yet been won over. 	adv
The marching season is not over in Northern Ireland yet. 	adv
It is not yet clear if any decisive moves will be taken in 1996 to start serious work on what the Maastricht Treaty describes as the eventual framing of a common defence policy. 	adv
It is not yet clear, for that matter, how far Member States are prepared to go in framing a common security policy. 	adv
While I welcome the current Commission proposals concerning consumer access to justice, I am very disappointed to see that family access to justice, which is a human right, has not yet received the same level of attention. 	adv
We are not yet out of the mire but the eradication plan agreed in Florence is, nonetheless, a cause of relief for the cattle heartland of Great Britain. 	adv
But it is fair to give warning that we believe that the Government of Turkey has yet to deliver on the promises made to this Parliament before the ratification of the customs union in December last year. 	adv
Not one of the constitutional reforms brought in to charm us last year has yet found its way onto the statute book. 	adv
At the same time one should bear in mind that the possibility of narrower bands of fluctuations should not be the only resort of Member States concerned and that there should also be a multilateral framework at the disposal of the Ministers of Finance, of the European central banks and of the central banks of countries which are not yet in the system. 	adv
I find it disappointing given the scale of the crisis that we have with BSE that the Commission has not yet asked for figures or started to look at the monitoring of the situation as far as jobs are concerned beyond the measures that the Commissioner has spoken about such as intervention and confidence-building. 	adv
No-one can yet tell how high the contribution to the United Kingdom will be, especially in view of the fact that we cannot estimate at the moment how much money we shall have to spend on intervention in the UK. 	adv
However, we have not yet received any concrete proposals to this effect. 	adv
But here we are, we are left with the report, and the fact that the Budgets Committee has not yet had its hearing. 	adv
Mr President, I ask your indulgence to invite my colleagues who have not yet signed the declaration on autism to do so. 	adv
Mr President, I am grateful to the Commissioner for his reminder that the UK government has not yet put any proposals on the table. 	adv
Yet there are serious challenges before us in the buildings area, and I am sure that, in the approach that Mr Viola is taking, he will continue with the same level of serious scrutiny as we have had in the past. 	adv
I would like to say yet again that we have a fundamental need to examine discharge procedures. 	adv
There is no suggestion to hand at yet, for example, that France or Britain is ready to hand over its independent nuclear deterrent to the WEU or to some new European defence organization. 	adv
As yet, no national indicative programmes can be started. 	adv
Mr President, as we have heard yet again today the Cardiff Summit has reiterated the foundations of EU foreign policy in Kosovo, which calls for the cessation of violence, a return to the negotiating table and engagement in a vigorous political process as the only solution to the Kosovo crisis. 	adv
Mr President, yet again we see the services allowing television cameras to film demonstrations in this House. 	adv
Unfortunately the London Government has been steering in completely the wrong direction and I find it quite ironic that a year to the day after Mr Brown and Mr Blair entered Downing Street, they celebrate by yet again missing the euro-boat. 	adv
I have to say to their representative that if she has very strong views which she wishes yet again to press she should raise this matter with the British Government. 	adv
Madam President, I wish to thank Mr Robles Piquer for emphasizing, yet again, the concept of partnership and how this is central to all our work in the Joint Assembly and, in particular, drawing attention in a very highprofile way to the system of voting that is in practice. 	adv
Are we going to wait yet again for another CJD-type outbreak and take all the consequences again? 	adv
Mr President, as the sponsor of this resolution, with colleagues, we make no apology for raising the issue of human rights violations in Nigeria yet again. 	adv
Mr President, despite the fact that in October, Parliament agreed a common position on postal services with the Council, the issue of post seems to refuse to go away and is yet again at the forefront of Parliament's deliberations. 	adv
I would simply use the opportunity of his question to emphasize strongly yet again that as an increasing number of people, including employers, come to understand the strong link between fair competition and efficient operation and decent social conditions, the environment in which the Commission is seeking to secure support for its initiatives in this sector is growing all the time. 	adv
To emphasise yet again, as Mrs Gradin and others have pointed out, it is the vulnerable peripheral communities who will pay that price and the Norwegians will be laughing all the way to the bank. 	adv
Madam President. First I would like to thank all those who have presented their reports to the House this morning, but especially Terry Wynn; his expertise shines through yet again. 	adv
Mr President, I am indeed sad to be speaking yet again about human rights violations and inhuman behaviour in China. 	adv
To its credit, Parliament is now proposing to accord yet again the highest priority to Northern Ireland from within its own reserves and margin for manoeuvre to make good the deficiency of ECU 100m left by the Council. 	adv
Mr President, I am saddened to be addressing the House yet again concerning a distinct lack of democracy and human rights in a third country, namely Indonesia. 	adv
Mr President, it is a matter of great regret to our group that we should feel obliged yet again to table a resolution about human rights in Turkey, but I feel we have a moral duty so to do. 	adv
We admire the courage and energy of our many Moroccan friends, including the Moroccan MPs who are with us yet again in Parliament, with whom we have a very active dialogue. 	adv
But, as Mr Howitt has said, this regulation represents yet again the wish of Member States to usurp the executive responsibilities of the Commission. 	adv
Yet again the PPE have demonstrated their inability to sustain any support for the shambolic approach to Council resolutions and, in particular, Agenda 2000. 	adv
Yet again Mr Rothley has been imaginative on the subject of inventions. 	adv
Yet again, the presidencies, in particular the Dutch, have treated Parliament with a rather cavalier attitude. 	adv
Yet again, in March 1992, in my report on the reform of the Scientific Committee for Food this Parliament said: ' The process of achieving a satisfactory scientific base for matters relating to food safety will be judged by Europe's consumers according to whether it is sufficiently independent, transparent and effective.' 	adv
These recent revelations of these high levels of radiation found in casks and rolling stock used to ship nuclear waste are unfortunately yet another example of the nuclear industry shooting itself in the foot. 	adv
Many years later I am disappointed to see yet another presidency having to list as one of its objectives that of finishing the preparations for the establishment of Europol. 	adv
A yet more eminent one did so recently. 	adv
We only caught, apparently, an average of 3 000 tonnes, and yet we are increasing the number of vessels being sent there. 	concession
The report is based on a resolution on the dangers of fundamentalism, yet it appears on our order paper as 'Fundamentalism: the challenge to the European legal order' . 	concession
Ireland is a member of the ILO and yet the Irish constitution, as interpreted by our courts, gives employers the right to refuse to recognize unions. 	adv
We also see the pressures on our urban and rural areas and yet we want to see the benefits of new technology spread right across many of our regional areas. 	adv
And yet, are we to believe that we are now poorer in our aspirations for what we want in the future? 	adv
And yet it is still too often known falsely for its notorious Euro-sceptics. 	adv
We talk incessantly about the globalization of the economy and yet we constrain our young people within a very national curriculum; that clearly has to change if we mean what we say about them becoming employable in a global economy and in particular in a European single market. 	adv
And yet that has been put about, making people who object to this seem unreasonable. 	adv
Throughout the hard talking that took place I noticed how carefully Mo Mowlam had to choose her words and yet every word was spoken from her heart. 	adv
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment is being negotiated which may not yet contain sufficiently strong social and environmental clauses. 	adv
Sadly, with the exception of course of the people who are here today, attendance at the Rules of Procedure Committee is not always of the best, and yet the curious thing is that - like education - the Rules of Procedure are something that everybody has an opinion on, both in the groups and in the plenary. 	adv
The European Commission has claimed that duty-free is costing Member States' exchequers ECU 2 billion in lost revenue yet there are some studies that claim that the result of the abolition of duty-free will be that Member States will be worse off because of increased transport costs and other tax losses. 	adv
Batom Mitee continues to be refused visits from his family or any medical care and yet he is paralysed on his left side, cannot stand or eat unaided and has lived in the same soiled clothing for over three months. 	adv
Like Mrs Ewing, I think that it should be peripheral airports because if we look at the question of the lower limit which the EPP voted for in committee this would mean that small airports like those which Mr Hume, Mrs Ewing, and Mr Gerry Collins use would each be covered by the legislation; these are all very small airports and yet they are vital to the economy of their regions. 	adv
It is true that they have suffered an unparalleled series of natural disasters - flood, tidal waves and drought - yet we are all aware that one of the problems is the systemic failure of the country's economy. 	adv
I have previously been to two World Cups and two European competitions yet I do not expect to be allocated tickets for the games.' 	adv
And yet we have a two-speed Europe. 	adv
And yet we have this anomaly which I do not believe occurs in other Member States. 	adv
Tourism is Europe's and the world's biggest industry, yet here in Europe we have lost 10 % of market share since 1960. 	adv
There is irony in the fact that the UK presidency will be in the hot seat when the decision is made as to who will be in and who will not, yet the UK is staying outside. 	adv
And yet for some reason, society tolerates a similar toll of people being killed and many, many more being injured on our roads. 	concession
We all know from our experience in flying that no-one takes any notice whatsoever of cabin crew when they are giving us the safety demonstrations and yet all the evidence suggests that information they are conveying to us could make the difference between life or death. 	concession
And yet we have had a saga that has continued for years rather than months. 	contrast
It considers itself the moral police force of the world and yet it carries out the most appalling crime, basically a crime against humanity, in imposing the death sentence. 	concession
I say 'timely' because, if one looks back and sees that between ECU 40 billions and 50 billions have been spent in aid since 1975, yet many applicant countries are worse off today than they were at the start of Lomé, something must be wrong with the system. 	concession
They have beef health standards and traceability standards not matched anywhere else in Europe, and yet Europe has closed the market to their produce. 	concession
It is called an agreement yet in reality it is a non-agreement. 	contrast
It is very difficult to believe that such slavery still exists in this day and age, yet we read that trafficking in women is actually on the increase according to the International Organization for Migration. 	concession
And yet there are proposals to open a supermarket in our town. 	concession
A World Bank plan exists to buy out almost half the world's production in Russia, costing only $ 27 million, yet the response by Member States so far has been poor. 	contrast
That is quite right and yet, in response to the debate a few minutes ago, Commissioner Monti seemed to be saying that the Commission would refer Parliament's demand for an ethical committee to the advisory group. 	concession
The European Parliament and European Union provide subsidies for tobacco farming, breeding bulls for bull-fighting and, if we are to believe the press reports this week, breeding beetles in Italy for alcoholic drinks colouring, and yet we seem to be balking at or objecting to a small increase in the project. 	concession
Is not hypocrisy being preached within the Commission when they are saying one thing to the general public about unemployment and about the economy, and yet, in actual practice, they are doing the complete opposite. 	contrast
Obviously there is some inconsistency here: the Commission quite rightly is planning to tackle the appalling toll of road accidents across our continent - 50, 000 lives are lost each year - and yet at the same time the powers we already have to prevent accidents involving coaches, lorries and buses are clearly not being enforced throughout the European Union. 	contrast
And yet the French authorities are now insisting on breakdowns for small claims and insisting that claims be submitted in French. 	contrast
There is supposed to be free movement of workers in the European Union under Article 48, yet disabled people have very little chance of being able to exercise this full right unless something is done to enhance their status and their capacity to work in the European Union. 	concession
And yet it is the same Council that talks about efficiency and sound financial management that largely makes a mess of the agricultural regulations that make it possible for the fraud and irregularities to take place. 	contrast
The rule of law of course is vital for the future, and yet a Chinese official commenting on the provisional legislature says it exists under a legal system different from that of the British Hong Kong Legislative Council. 	contrast
Mr President, systematic abuse and denial of human rights continues in mainland China, yet the Western world remains embarrassingly silent. 	contrast
It says, on the one hand, that he had a legal requirement to come and yet the resolution just adopted states that the institutional agreement needs to be strengthened so that we can demand him to come. 	contrast
There was also supposed to be no risk of maternal transmission and yet that was changed and what we have now is a lack of confidence among consumers and the population generally about what the government is telling us and the scientific evidence we are being given publicly. 	concession
The European policy which seeks to assist us with the development of our afforestation is not all that popular in Ireland and yet I believe it is wise in the long run. 	concession
In Recital I we call for the protection of the environment and yet Europe is still supporting mass hydro-electric schemes in the name of development, one of which - local communities and NGOs say - will devastate one of the largest and most precious environments within the region. 	contrast
The trade in these drugs is multinational in nature, as is the laundering of the vast sums of money involved in this trade yet the response of the multinational organization best placed to tackle this problem, the European Union, is seen to be virtually non-existent. 	contrast
It was made available to the public by the Swedish Minister and yet I, as an Irish MEP, who drafted two reports for Parliament on this question, could not get a copy of that document. 	contrast
Mr President, with demands for containment of spending this was never going to be a very happy procedure and yet I want to congratulate the rapporteurs, Brinkhorst and Fabra Vallés, and also the Irish presidency, for having achieved what might seem to be the impossible, of meeting our long-term commitments and resolving the immediate problems of today. 	concession
The event was organized in conjunction with Parliament's services and yet on their arrival today they encountered long delays in entering and their technicians encountered an attitude little short of hostile from some of Parliament's staff. 	concession
Take, for instance, their socalled Chinese diplomats. They have free access to this Parliament yet we Parliamentarians are accorded absolutely no respect in return. 	contrast
I am glad to see that there are improvements mentioned about the Commission's performance but the word 'improvement' is not yet used often enough. 	contrast
We take it for granted that this is not so and yet we have to accept that for water, electricity and other vital services, this is exactly the situation. 	concession
And yet if we look next door to what happened in Ethiopia, they had the wisdom to accept the Eritrean right of self-determination and there is now a peaceful regime in Eritrea which is, I think, an inspiration to its neighbour and which has, in turn, been suffering from the export of revolution from Sudan. 	concession
Mr President, on the Minutes: I notice that Mrs Bonino, Commissioner, was there to answer a number of questions on fisheries and consumer affairs, but what concerns me greatly is that we have three important reports on fisheries and one oral question on Friday and yet I understand that the Commissioner is not going to be present. 	contrast
They have many problems and yet in spite of these - or perhaps even because of these - there is an enormous commitment to community spirit to fight back. 	concession
Christian Democrats appreciate perhaps more than Liberals the idea of social solidarity in collective values and that there is such a thing as society which has a duty to support weaker individuals, yet when it comes to specific commitments in this area the Christian Democrats always seem to find reasons to vote against and, at best, just to resort to paternalism. 	concession
There are almost 100 million sheep in the Europe and yet we do not have a sustainable EU wool sector. 	contrast
But throughout the European Union now, we have unprecedented levels of material wealth, unprecedented at any period during the history of Europe, and yet there are a large number of people who do not share in the progress which has been achieved. 	concession
More than two years ago they promised to do this, yet there has been no action. 	concession
We are dealing with matters which may be simple on paper yet have important implications for jobs. 	contrast
In all these ways Turkey is found wanting, and yet it has an exceptionally close relationship with our Union and we have a right to expect more. 	concession
All this demands action and yet the Council and the Commission do not seem to be listening to the European Parliament which is the democratic base of all the institutions. 	contrast
The date is being constantly reiterated as if it is all going to happen and yet there is an air of sleepwalking, it seems to me, and of wishful thinking. 	concession
The NGOs' workers often live in appalling conditions in fear of their lives, and yet by their work in the medical and social fields they are responsible for saving millions of lives. 	concession
It says that we have strong economic fundamentals and yet we have depressed growth. 	concession
They have given much towards the peace process and yet we are not seeing the peace process being delivered from the other side. 	contrast
Yet it was not until 15 October this year that the European Council took action on an air embargo and a freeze on funds to the Taliban. 	concession
Yet middle-aged and elderly women remain beset, more than men, with health problems. 	concession
Yet because we share the same aim, and because there is goodwill on both sides, I am confident that we will have an effective and efficient directive that will eventually be adopted. 	contrast
Yet the only job opportunity that has been provided in Derry so far on foot of the peace process has been by Raytheon, the third-biggest arms manufacturing company in the US. 	concession
Yet we know that this is also a kind of obligation for the Union under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, that you should be able to report what you are doing in favour of children. 	concession
Yet it is fraught with problems. 	concession
Yet even injured and diseased animals which die on the farm are finding their way into rendering plants and the tallow from these animals is finding its way into the pharmaceutical industry, into the cosmetic industry and therefore into the food chain. 	concession
Yet all this is to fund Spanish and Portuguese fishermen, giving them a licence to pillage Third World waters, often in flagrant disregard of the basic principles of fisheries conservation. 	concession
Yet if they pause to think for one minute they would soon realise that their own country, every country, probably loses more from the vetoes cast by other countries than they gain in using their own in many areas of European Union responsibility. 	concession
Yet this programme is about investing in our future, investing in young people who will become, as we have heard today, the Europeans of tomorrow. 	concession
Yet Mr Patten insists that the police must be responsible to a new ruling body on which the IRA will be represented. 	concession
Yet the international community, with certain exceptions, seems to have been taken by surprise by the way in which this tragedy has unfolded. 	concession
Yet importantly, there clearly was a breach of competition rules on a massive scale. 	contrast
Yet the delays in issuing the necessary visas from the Member State embassies in London currently threaten his employment on which, in turn, his immigration status depends. 	concession
Yet, the good old traditional own resources are the cause of major headaches for control and concern about fraud. 	concession
Yet we have reached the point, that we know there are going to be new actions, new research, new initiatives, new projects, all of which will contribute towards raising awareness of the issue of violence towards women and combating it. 	concession
Yet if we stick to the Commission's strict 75 % it will lose out. 	concession
Yet that base continues to get weaker despite the fact that Europe has some outstanding companies. 	concession
Yet Article 159 of the Treaty anticipates the possibility of Commissioners resigning without reference to specific circumstance. 	contrast
Yet in Objective 2 GDP is not one of the criteria for qualifying. 	concession
Yet the Commission, in its White Paper, made no reference whatsoever to the possible involvement of the contributors. 	concession
Yet, as this excellent report shows, it is important not to be naive. 	contrast
Yet regional aid for many of our textile areas is under threat. 	concession
Yet the action programme, to be proposed by the Commission, is not yet a fully-fledged urban competence for the European Union. 	contrast
Yet, in the case of the North Sea, which is subject to extreme environmental and ecological pressure, the figure is up to 60 %. 	concession
Yet the owner was able to tell me that the problem was not the quotas for these species, but that because of the 10 % legal by-catch the industrial fisheries could take out more of the fish stocks than the people with legitimate quotas. 	concession
Yet the United States is quadrupling the amount of support it gives to the supply and service industry in the oil sector. 	concession
Yet, as Mr Tindemans says, the Amsterdam Treaty makes a common defence policy a more credible prospect given that it strengthens the organic bond between the European Union and the Western European Union, created by Maastricht. 	concession
Yet, in any country in Europe there are employers and businesses crying out for staff and they claim they cannot get them. 	concession
Yet, none of these cases are intrinsically trade disputes and ought to have simply been mediated. 	concession
Yet the problem of intra-Community smuggling of duty-paid alcohol and tobacco is probably on a greater scale than the loss of revenue by the continual existence of intra-Community duty-free. 	contrast
Yet he refuses to allow for regional employment impacts to be assessed in advance. 	concession
Yet I say to the Secretary of State that the Council's position represents two steps back rather than one step forward. 	concession
Yet, there is no attempt to quantify the size of the problem. 	concession
Yet today the processes of globalization too often exacerbate social inequality. 	concession
Yet in the United Kingdom it was on satellite television, where the majority of people could not even watch it. 	concession
Yet in some of the European Union Member States, there are health rules at points of access, in others the rules are very different, despite frequent cross-border transits. 	contrast
Yet we know that this year we will have lost 17, 000 jobs in the steel sector. 	concession
Yet, the Irish Department of Agriculture is at this very moment debarring applicants from the EU's early retirement scheme for farmers if they are found to have been engaged in part-time work for a period prior to their application. 	concession
Yet it seems to me that what is going on here is discrimination of the most blatant nature. 	concession
Yet, because it is so expensive it is not growing at all, any more than it is in western Europe. 	concession
The Minutes do not accurately reflect my concern which was that the document (COM(97)0247) made a number of extreme statements about the use of nickel coins, saying it had important consequences for health and so on. Yet, just last week I received an answer from Mr De Silguy pointing out that this was absolute nonsense, that nickel does not pose a threat to health. 	contrast
Yet this is an important example, because it is happening all over Britain and sooner or later it will happen all over the Union. 	concession
Yet some ministers - not all - would have preferred there to be no proposal at all. 	contrast
Yet we still have a wide degree of variation between the economic performance of the Member States, and indeed the traditions of government management of the economies.	contrast
Yet in the midst of all this hope, we have the situation in Sudan. It is a real problem. 	concession
Yet these 37 million people feel excluded and irrelevant to the European Union. 	concession
Yet until the EU is able to come to grips with the severity of the problem of discards, and accepts that they are both unnecessary and wasteful, no real progress will be made. 	concession
Yet within a matter of months there is every likelihood that the position will have moved on. 	concession
Yet your report largely concentrates on the issues of inflation and interest rate policy which of course are important but in themselves are not the only issues of concern. 	concession
Yet we find that part of the United Kingdom is sinned against not only by the British Government, but also by this Community. 	concession
Yet public transport today only accounts for between 10 and 15 % of the total mobility market. 	contrast
Yet if you read this regulation, they will play an absolutely key role in deciding whether or not these foods reach our tables. 	contrast
Yet in 50 years over half of these rare wetlands have been lost. 	concession
Yet, from what I learned a few weeks ago we will perhaps have the mandate in December and will therefore be able to start an assessment with our South African partners early in January. 	concession
Yet, there are good ideas. 	concession
Yet it should not be so! 	concession
Yet, on 7 March 1996, Yasar Kemal, Turkey's most renowned living writer, was given a 20-month suspended sentence for 'initiating hatred' in an essay entitled 'Dark Cloud over Turkey' . 	concession
Yet when we look at the most recent OECD report, it says that a reduction in working time will not increase employment. 	contrast
Yet, Commissioner van Miert is confronted at this very moment with a whole range of legal complaints against the very nature of public service broadcasting. 	concession
Yet passenger ships on domestic voyages do not enjoy the same high level of safety required for voyages between Member States. 	concession
Yet we export all that wool unprocessed. 	concession
Yet it seems they cannot catch anybody responsible for these acts. 	concession
Yet, as the Minister of Finance told us, there is, as everywhere else, a problem of unemployment. 	concession
Yet I have to say that in all my political life I have never seen so much anger as I saw in my constituency and across the border in Northern Ireland over the weekend. 	contrast
Yet once more the Council continues to argue for the continuation of the current macroeconomic policies given the 'fact' that the fundamentals remain sound. 	contrast
Yet non-payment of invoices presents a real problem to their manager, David Stear. 	contrast
Yet I am sure you will agree with me that it is scandalous and shocking that the Economic Secretary to the Treasury in the UK and the spokesperson for small businesses, Angela Knight MP, an MP in my own Euro-constituency, said that the Treasury's late payment on 25 % of its bills is not exactly the crime it has been portrayed as. 	concession
Yet we do not take one measure in the form of renewable energy which would certainly provide jobs. 	contrast
Yet all the decisions about the protection of humanitarian aid, goods and staff - despite the fact that defence implications are specifically excluded, as well as all actions taken directly by the Commission and by the specialized Member State organizations - will now be referred to and controlled by the Council under its excessive 3a procedure. 	concession
Yet the universal service works. 	contrast
Yet as my colleague here said, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is going to spend our money on two other reactors as a price for the agreement of closure. 	concession
Yet today my group urges Israel to stop the bombing and action in Lebanon which we believe cannot be right and cannot aid a long-term solution. 	concession
The financial aspects of enlargement will not be clear for some time yet.	concession
