Translation of "Es ist unsere überzeugung" in English

It is our firm belief that our best source of information is in the life experiences of our members.

It is our conviction that companies have a responsibility for the environment, society and health.

Ladies and gentlemen, this report is called: "Modernizing and Improving Social Protection' and it is our sincere belief that within the modernization of social protection there is room for a new approach to our pension system.

That is simply the problem we have when we are dealing with countries in which there are certain constitutional shortcomings, and we all consider this to be the case in Turkey.

It is our belief that this is not the time to be sending Turkey positive signals.

It is rather our conviction that on to matters such as electoral issues - but not only on those issues - we must bring forward framework laws within which Member States can make their own decisions.

We need to place great emphasis on the appropriate functioning of the internal control system of the institutions under supervision, because our conviction is that it is better to prevent problems than to have to find solutions for them later on.

As Christian Democrats, we are utterly convinced that competitiveness creates the safest jobs.

It is our belief that it is a legitimate prerogative of this Parliament to debate, to suggest and to question actions taken by the Executive in foreign affairs, be that the Commission or the Council.

This debate is not about the Middle East, as we want to discuss enlargement, but it is our profound conviction that we will be successful in the fight against terrorism only if we, that is the United States of America and the European Union, support the peace process between Israel and Palestine with equal determination and in the same way, something on which there could be stronger signals from the West, to which we belong.

It is our firm belief that we must work with third countries to promote the ratification and implementation of UN counter-terrorism conventions and to use political dialogue and technical assistance to support countries willing to cooperate.

We are convinced that a good deal can and should be done to give more impetus to Mediterranean cooperation and to make everyone involved feel that they own more of the process.

It is our strong belief that if the ECB is successful in maintaining price stability, and thereby creating an environment of predictable stability for entrepreneurs, that is the best contribution that the ECB can make to fostering growth of output and employment.

It is our deep conviction that Allah has created people free, and has prescribed that each individual must enjoy freedom of choice.

And it is our belief that to cope with the pain, you created an alter ego named Monica Dow.

We firmly believe that every diplomatic effort must be made, particularly within the framework of the UN Agencies, to provide urgent help and support to the victims, to try to minimise the number of deaths, to respond to the problems faced by the people and to begin reconstruction work on the enormous amount of infrastructure that has been destroyed, in cooperation with the Burmese authorities, as the resolution in fact stresses.

Yet it is our firm belief that the Community itself must quickly further develop initiatives on this issue.

This means that we have to defend the internal market of the Community, to make the common market secure, to abide by the rules of competitions, that we have all accepted.

These few examples will, I feel, suffice to substantiate the following proposition. Labour-intensive measures for the rational utilization of energy and the conver sion of infrastructure in the 80s can be used both to offset the shortage of oil and the increase in the price of oil and to combat unemployment effectively.

However, they cannot be debated here. There are other places for discussing these matters, and that is why I cannot take part in these votes.

Without this economic power the political cooperation and our influence in the world are meaningless. This should be borne in mind whenever we speak about the role and the meaning of Europe on the international scene.

We reject such a picture and assessment of Europe, and we propose a Europe that will bravely build its own unity — creating, that is, a stronger capability to face all other realities and all other countries, whether industrialized or not.

Moreover, the political groups have themselves set anything but a good example in implementing the decisions of Parliament.

As regards only the first, I must refer to the inadequacy at present of the 50 or so scholarships and the insufficiency, since the accession of Spain and Portugal, of the reception centres.