Translation of "Ich möchte nicht verschweigen" in English

I should acknowledge that the EQF is a technical, even complex instrument.

I cannot deny that this is a truly ambitious goal.

Having said this, I do not want to hide the fact that there are also still some thorny issues on the table which require difficult negotiation.

Although it will involve some tightening up in Austria, I have to say that a number of provisions already apply in Austria which it would have been impossible to gain acceptance for throughout Europe.

For all that, I have no intention of hiding the fact that my group had major problems with the original Commission proposal and also with the rapporteur's position at first reading.

I must not, however, disguise the fact that this is an impairment of the common position, and it is interesting that we now see a European Parliament that attaches less importance to protecting employees than the Council of Ministers does.

I will not hide from you that this week I received a very interesting report from the Scientific and Technical Committee for the Multifactorial Study of Disorders of Bees, which is made up of eminent scientists.

Today, though, I would not wish to deny that many of us would have welcomed a reference to God in the Constitution, because it affirms that our human capacities are not infinite.

We do not, as I shall go on to say, agree about everything, but the fact that we agree about so much means that there is always a distorting focus on the minority of issues where we do not see eye to eye.

I cannot draw a veil over this Parliament's present dissatisfaction with the Council's objectives in this area and with its debates on the subject.

Thank you Mr Pasqua. I will keep you in suspense no longer: tomorrow, at 1 p.m., all the Members are invited to come for a drink with me beyond the confines of Parliament.

Nevertheless, I have to admit that we must be wary of certain factors which could make the implementation of the reform more difficult.

However, I have to say that the main reason for the improvement may lie not so much in effective application of the reform, but rather in cyclical production trends, and in the fact that farmers have put off slaughtering their animals in order to qualify for premiums under the new system based on reference numbers.

No account is taken of the fact that there are associations which are principally engaged in economic activity and others whose main objective is not an economic one.

I have taken those two examples in order to show that there is a relationship between the various instruments which the Commission has proposed in connection with stabilizers.

In carrying out this budgetary task, which always involves a lot of work, you have shown technical competence, combined with excellent human skills in striking a difficult balance, that is worth underlining. You have shown real talent.

The decision to request the Commission not to publish its detailed opinions on the applications for membership by the East European countries until after the conclusion of the Inter governmental Conference is a surprising one.

The Social Democrats are divided, I make no bones about the fact, as to how to deal with fingerprinting of under 18-year olds.

In discussing how the European Commission can concentrate on this task, I want to be clear about the limits of our role.

I want to add that the circuit presented here can measure only up to 75°C, which should be adequate for our application.

And I must mention too that it was Dieter Raab's commitment which brought me into the coin business.

Albeit it might be relatively unimportant I don't want to hide the fact that for this review I only had the dubbed mandarin version and not the original cantonese dubbed one.

I know I said I don't want you to keep things from me, but I don't want to keep things from you either.