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I merely meant to get up and give my thanks for the pleasant things that preceding speakers have said of me.

The preceding speaker has correctly pointed these out.

This is of course a part of a larger picture, which was ably described by preceding speakers.

Here I must point out to some of the preceding speakers that there is no point in only considering structural policies as such.

It is also for this reason that we are able to support the compromise even if, like the preceding speaker, we are not entirely satisfied.

The preceding speakers have talked of eutrophication.

(DE) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am able to follow on from where the preceding speaker left off.

Mr President, if the preceding speakers are to be believed, we now have paradise in view. The Chinese, in particular, are heading there and nowhere else.

Mr President, I will not take up the two full minutes because several thoughts that I wanted to express, particularly about road safety, have already been expressed by the preceding speakers.

And the people in charge of the system, with all due respect to the preceding speaker, are the British government on the one hand and the Commission in Brussels on the other.

This is most noticeable in conversations where each participant 'picks up' elements from the contribution of the preceding speaker and incorporates them in his contribution, as in the following fragment:

Madam President, Mrs Jiménez García-Herrera, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I, too, would like to agree with the preceding speakers and open with the words 'life is beautiful'.

Although wearing a uniform that would have passed inspection, he still projected an untidy appearance; his face reflected an adventurous night and a lengthy tenure on the bench waiting for the preceding speaker to finish.

In this difficult debate on this ever-changing and unfamiliar issue I would like to say that, paradoxically, all the preceding speakers from both the left and right of the House were correct to a considerable degree.

We understand that olive oil, olive production, is an important tradition in the Mediterranean, especially in regions and areas with objective 1 status where, as preceding speakers have already said, unemployment and economic difficulties are very serious.

Craddick is the daughter of State Representative Tom Craddick of Midland, the preceding Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and previously a Chisum ally.

In preparation, I read the lectures delivered by three of the preceding speakers in this series, each a distinguished American: President Bush, and Senator Baker and Senator Byrd, both of whom are here.

And why favour just family ties? From the polygamous family, we move on to cohabitation and soon, as the preceding speaker, Mr Sylla, has just proposed, we will move on to mere homosexual association.

Barrett consoled himself that it is always thus in a debate when your opponent has spoken first and you have to follow, and it becomes doubly difficult when the first and preceding speaker has been an effective one.

I am therefore very pleased, and the preceding speaker also touched on this matter briefly, that it will not only apply to those people who are actually in the cable car, but also to those who disembark at the station or who are waiting to depart.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, like preceding speakers, I too wish to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Sterckx, on the work he has accomplished in quite difficult conditions and on the close attention he has paid during the many debates that have taken place on the matter.