Translation of "Ich habe vollstes verständnis" in English

I, as a Member of this Parliament, entirely understand this.

And you had every right to throw that hissy fit earlier.

Meanwhile, cases of fraud have come to light in Ireland, and in Belgium, accounting for a total of about 17 million ECU, i.e. more than the fraud figures notified by all the Member States together for a period of a whole year.

I want to talk about a part of northern Europe which is 25 kilometres to the west of Brussels and in my constituency, the province of Hainaut.

I fully understand and appreciate that.

Believe me, I understand.

So I sympathise very much with what the honourable Member has said.

I fully appreciate that a multilateral treaty of this kind cannot impose too many dictates, but an awful lot is left to the goodwill of the Member States.

While I understand very well the cautious approach to feasibility studies in the report, I still think we should give the chosen studies a subsidy of up to 50 %.

I fully sympathize with your feelings and others who wanted to ask supplementaries on this very important matter. But, since Mr Collins has not turned up, there is nothing we can do about it.

So I have a full understanding of the issue that you are considering with care and that you are approaching with such critical insight.

I have the fullest understanding for the reservations expressed by Denmark, which does not want to create a precedent for giving the Commission wider general powers with the anti-blockade legislation.

I also understand very well that scientists have argued with each other about whether this is a matter of a least cost solution or not.

I understand perfectly the concerns of my colleague, Mrs Van Putten, whom I thank for contributing to the work and moving this regulation along in the committee, but I will request that she withdraw Amendment No 51.

Mr President, as I have already mentioned, I fully sympathise with the wish to ensure the full protection of public health as expressed in the amendments seeking to introduce binding limit values for arsenic, cadmium, nickel and polyaromatic hydrocarbons.

I can only sympathise, then, with the intransigent position of the Greek Cypriots and their President, Mr Papadopoulos, who reject the UN Secretary-General’s half-hearted compromise, and in three days’ time will be voting ‘no’ in the referendum on the reunification of their island.

I do, however, fully appreciate Parliament’s concerns, which it has outlined in the draft report.

I am aware that there is a wish to go further than we have in setting binding limit values for some of these pollutants and I fully sympathise with the desire to protect human health that this reflects.

I well understand that the Commission does not want to introduce a new structure policy which may be obsolete within a year as a result of the fisheries policy reforms.

So, I totally sympathise with the argument that Israel should have assurances about its security, but I do not think that making life intolerable for Palestinians is the right way of achieving that.

I fully understand those who say that in times of state spending cuts the EU must also play its part.

I fully understand those who say that in times of tight budgets and spending cuts the EU must also play its part.

Wells, as a parent, believe me, I have nothing but sympathy for what you're going through.

And believe me, after what I went through with Cole, if anyone understands that, it's me.

Let me just mention briefly three points which should, in my view, be taken into account.

We already have the negative power to prohibit mergers. As I have said, we will use it.

While that is gratifying, it is also difficult for a Commission that is supposed to react swiftly, to keep itself informed and, if possible, propose measures.