Traduction de «class thinking » (Anglais → Français) :

With its strong middle class, high level of education, closeness to Europe and overall moderation, Tunisia is well placed to take the leap towards democracy that people have now asked for with such force and courage, and I think everyone should agree that the European Union also has a strong interest in a democratic, prosperous and stable Tunisia.

When will priority be given to these poor workers, to these middle classes crushed by taxes, to these unemployed, and to these families who are simply European and form the vast majority of the inhabitants of the European Union and are the citizens for whom we are responsible and who you only think about on the eve of elections?

lower customs duties and the removal of quantitative barriers to trade at borders, which, when high, acted as a brake on trade anyway. To use Richard Baldwin's image, a low tide uncovers the reefs that are hidden at high water; the trend towards a greater "ideological content" in goods and services. The development of trade in farm products raises issues about our relationship to nature, the environment and food, all things that ethnologists class as cultural markers; trade in services raises the question of regulation of public services; and cultural diversity is a modern version of the cultural exception; changes in society itself ...[+++]as citizens and consumers have become better informed and more demanding. This greater awareness of issues has crystallised in the form of NGOs and global communications media whose development has given an ideological spin to previously humdrum issues (for instance, we used to change batteries without thinking twice, now it is an act fraught with environmental consequences).

If we want to optimise quality assurance then this is the second step, now that we have already taken the first step, together with the Commission, of putting in place stricter product safety standards. I am thinking of the recent decision to reclassify breast implants as class 3 medical devices.

The proposal means that extradition cases would not be examined in the same way as before and that special legislation against crimes specifically classed as terrorism would be implemented on very vague and unclear grounds. I think it is dubious, on such vague bases, to have a special legal system within a legal system.

I think there is a difference between classifying rivers in terms of difficulty in terms of paddling, like class 1, class 2, class 3, class 4, and so on, and classifying in terms of whether or not they are minor or major.