Traduction de «Parti travailliste social-démocrate » (Français → Anglais) :

In spite of the fact that some of the more worrying amendments tabled by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats did not achieve the majority needed to be adopted – for example the proposal to set, as of now, 2017 as the date for liberalising freight rail transport at national level – the majority in Parliament, enjoying the votes of the Portuguese Socialist, Social Democrat and People's parties, once again lent its backing to the process of liberalising rail transport at EU level, now on its third legislative package.

What is more important, though – and I am, this evening, primarily speaking as shadow rapporteur for the agricultural budget on behalf of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats – is that this report is like a warm bath for European farmers and horticulturalists compared to what the British Labour Government gave them during its presidency.

I will use the same figure of speech the former Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the former Soviet Union used referring to the present Chairman of the Russian Social Democratic People’s Party, Mikhail Gorbachov: the Ombudsman must have iron teeth.

Mr. Reidar Sandal (The Labour Party, Norwegian Parliamentary Committee on Local Government): My name is Reidar Sandal. I am also a representative of the Labour Party or the social democratic party in Norway.

However, if their sacrifices, should there be any, are not to be in vain, we, for our part, must do everything in our power to ensure that this world is less unfair, that it is a place where there can truly be conditions conducive to the development of democracy and of equal rights for women, to children's education and health. I do not think that it was mere coincidence that the first countries to stand side by side with the United States were Great Britain, with its labour, social democrat government, and France, another social democrat government, which also has a long tradition of defending rights and freedoms, and whose prime minist ...[+++]er and president said that there was no question of supporting anything but this campaign targeting Afghanistan.

Mr Blair's new Labour Government which was elected in the United Kingdom in May 1997 has very substantially shifted the United Kingdom's stance on this question, which had also been debated between the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats during the election campaign, and on which those two parties have adopted a common approach.