Translation of "Daher möchte ich fragen" in English

Therefore, I would like to ask the Commission how Europe will create new jobs?

First of all, on the agricultural front, the USA is trying to get rid of a number of support measures which are vital to the Community.

I am tired of being in a position of having to demand more rights and more jobs in the decisionmaking centres from men.

So, given that, let me ask you:

So I would ask the Commission what plans they have in that regard so that future referenda will be passed much more easily than in the past.

I would therefore like to ask what the trade agreement's impact will be on other agreements already signed between the European Union and Canada.

I should like to know exactly what you and Commissioner van den Broek intend to do in practice?

I would therefore ask whether the Western world should be investing billions in climate technology - the effect of which is highly questionable - while millions of people could be helped using already known, low-cost measures.

I would therefore ask: how many people in the EU will have to suffer under a euro system that in reality means that people in Europe must suffer under the hopeless criteria of the stability and growth pact?

As a result, I would like to ask the Commission about what repercussions this has on the timetable for the countries not yet included in the Schengen area, but which are due to join.

So I want to ask you if you agree that some measures need to be put in place for SMEs which will require refinancing, and what role the Commission could play.

What we are actually trying to do now is to get some restitution, because we not only lost our ability to look at what is going on with the Commission, but we also lost the accountability process and the transparency process, so I want to ask Mr Mitchell...

I should like to ask the Commission, therefore, if it does not think there is a case for triggering the European emergency clause and bringing forward the discussion on financial compensation.

Therefore, I would like to ask the Commissioner whether, in the immediate future, sufficient attention will be devoted or is being devoted to the suitable implementation of alternative transport projects?

The Commissioner also made a comparison with minced meat but we know that the hygiene standards for minced meat are not the same as for prepared meat products, so I would question if both statements by the Commissioner are correct.

I would therefore ask the Commission how he sees this specific reform, which is not controversial, in the context of his wider reform of competition policy which, as he well knows, might be generously said to be slightly more controversial.

I should like to ask what progress has been made in the Member States on transfers of rights?

Therefore I would like to ask you whether we may also be able to resolve the problem of the geothermal project at Fürstenfeld, which pollutes the river Lapincs (Lafnitz) via the river Feistritz.

I should like to ask the Commissioner if she could estimate when we shall have this opinion from the Commission.

I would therefore ask the Commission whether it shares my view that we leave amateur sports out of the equation, but that professional sport is an entertainment industry which should probably even fall within the Services Directive, and that an internal market should probably eventually be created for these services, for this entertainment industry.

And that is why I will make a comment, and I would ask all those who still wish to tell Turkey that there was a genocide seventy-five years ago - which is true - in what way does that help the debate in Turkey today?

I should therefore like to ask the Commission whether it is not finally time to take a bird’s eye view of Europe, and whether it would not be worth drawing up a comprehensive study of the trans-European transport network.

Apart from that Madam President, I regret that there were no texts in Danish.

I should therefore like to know whether he intends, on the basis of the principles applied to date, to take the necessary steps to ensure that Community butter can be bought by the Soviet Union or indeed any other country — I am thinking in particular of Algeria and the developing countries.

Altogether, this scheme of the Polish episcopate is an ambitious one, of a very different kind from our present programme of humanitarian aid and one for which no resources have been set aside within the Community at present.

I would ask him what happened in regard to the murderers, three in number, names known, who slaughtered two young people on the Derry/Donegal border before this political conflict of which there is so much talk today.

My question to the Commission is therefore: in view of the circumstances and bearing in mind that an integrated approach to this issue is needed - in other words, anti-climate change policy cannot be dissociated from civil protection policy - does the Commission not think that in these circumstances a directive on fires is justified?