Traduction de «Image sombre » (Français → Anglais) :

Your experience, Mr Prime Minister, as a rebel in one sense, as an intellectual but, most importantly of all, as a democrat and as the voice of reason that could lead your country from the dark ages of Communism into the bright lights – sometimes dimmed because of energy crises – and future of the European Union, that kind of image and that kind of imagery is what is most important to the people of Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo and, indeed, Turkey.

From my prison, for almost three years I wrote a book called 'Letters Underway' where I asked myself during the bleakest moment the following question: could it be possible for me to address in my book an Israeli figure who is an artist, a father, a real human soul, a man or a woman who would abolish the image of a soldier guarding my solitary cell?

Whilst the Foreign Ministers and Heads of Government make great speeches about the Common Foreign Policy, the Finance Ministers narrow-mindedly cut the supply of funds, without considering the prestige lost by the EU institutions.

Mr. Mac Harb (Parliamentary Secretary to Minister for International Trade): Mr. Speaker, the Reform Party and opposition members are trying to really paint a very bleak picture in terms of what is happening in our society in terms of what this government is doing.

- It should be borne in mind that the statistics may present an excessively gloomy picture, because in the past they were manipulated to make economic performance appear better than it was and because data collection has not yet been adapted to take account of private-sector activity, which, though small, has been far more dynamic than the state sector in most countries.

We must also be quite clear that the decision by the fledgling democracies of central and eastern Europe to go down the road of constitutionality and the market economy has opened a new door for globalisation, the logic being as simple as it is compelling – it embraces the countries which successfully take their destinies into their own hands and which seek to build on the advantages of international competitiveness, and it excludes those countries which have become mired down in states of emergency, conflict or war, or Communist dictatorships such as Belarus which have sought their salvation in self-imposed isolatio ...[+++]n.