Traduction de «Donner quelque crédit que ce soit » (Français → Anglais) :

However, the environment is being paraded like a monstrance and it is indeed remarkable that the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, which really should have been the first to take action, refused to deliver any opinion at all.

− Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, before giving the floor to the various speakers for this debate, I am going to allow myself – being, as I am, responsible for multilingual issues in Parliament’s Bureau – to read you some advice from a leaflet prepared for new MEPs on how to speak so that the interpreting can be correctly done, and so that this miracle, without compare or precedent in any other institution, can continue to operate daily.

1. ‘Global credit arrangement’ shall mean any understanding or statement, in whatever form, whereby the intention to guarantee supplier or financial credits or to open financial credits, up to a specified or ascertainable ceiling, and in respect of a connected series of transactions, is made known to a third country or to exporters or to financial institutions.

33. Expresses concern about the fact that the payment appropriations for the Structural Funds for the current 15 Member States have been reduced by EUR 4.2 billion, or 13.9%, compared to the 2003 budget; stresses that their volume should be assessed on the basis of not just the Member States' forecasts, but also the level of outstanding commitments and payments for the current financial year, and that the closure of programmes from the previous period (1994-1999) does not in any way justify any cuts in appropriations; notes that the payment appropriations for the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund for the new Member States amount t ...[+++]o EUR 1.8 billion compared to commitment appropriations of EUR 6.7 billion;

32. Expresses concern at the fact that the payment appropriations for the Structural Funds for the current 15 Member States have been reduced by € 4.2 billion, or 13.9%, compared to the 2003 budget; stresses that their volume should be assessed on the basis of not just the Member States' forecasts, but also the level of outstanding commitments and payments for the current financial year, and that the closure of programmes from the previous period (1994-1999) does not in any way justify any cuts in appropriations; notes that the payment appropriations for the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund for the new Member States amount to € 1 ...[+++].8 billion compared to commitment appropriations of € 6.7 billion;

To give some concrete examples rather than limiting myself to describing vague needs, we would point out the urgency, in particular, for an incisive, coordinated action from the Commission and the High Representative laying the foundations for an – economic and social as well as political – agreement which will lead to the creation of a reunified, coherent, manageable State of Palestine while fully safeguarding the security of the State of Israel, together with an explicit international guarantee, as Mr Van den Berg said just now.