Translation of "Mandat geben" in English

Or rather hand the mandate to Merkel or Schulz.

I call upon the Heads of State and Government to give the Convention a clear mandate.

I therefore ask the Council to give the Commission a mandate at this meeting, and I ask the Commission to initiate conversations in the coming week in order to secure a new protocol with all the guarantees in place, and to arrive at a provisional extension of activity in order to ensure that it continues for a sufficient period of one or two years, in order to reach a final, entirely satisfactory agreement.

In plain language what this means is that we wish to give the EU a mandate, the right to trample over individual Member States and people, all in the name of increased effectiveness.

Through our vote tomorrow, we wish to give strength to your actions, give strength to your words, giving you a full mandate to ensure that what has been lacking will now come to pass.

So I hope that there is awareness that there might be a renegotiated mandate and that the British Presidency will give this top priority if need be.

Regarding the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we are in favour of a strong resolution and indeed, we have said there ought to be a specific mandate now on this particular situation.

By establishing clearly when and how the precautionary principle should be applied, it clarifies its use at a European level, making it more credible, and it mandates the European negotiators in the next round of the World Trade Organisation to inscribe the precautionary principle as basic and universal.

For this reason, I urge you, on behalf of the Commission and particularly on behalf of my fellow-Commissioner Mr Patten, to give the Commission a clear mandate by signalling that the European Union speaks with one voice on this issue.

We now expect, like you, that next weekend in Laeken the Heads of State and Government will give the Convention an ambitious mandate so as to achieve a really positive reform of the EU institutions.

One puzzling and often overlooked feature of the France that elected Nicolas Sarkozy as its new president, and that is now poised to give his political allies a powerful parliamentary mandate, is its mix of private optimism and public pessimism.

In conclusion, Mr President, we value this agreement as a contribution to stabilizing democracy in Brazil and stabilizing relations between the European Community and South America.

I would suggest to the House that simply having the mandate of the Conference of Presidents is not enough for this and that we ought - under Rule 103, which clearly says that 'Parliament shall decide whether or not to wind up the debate with a resolution' - to finish our debate tomorrow with President Barroso with a vote to see whether we should give you that mandate or not and to see whether Members of this so-called democratic Chamber are prepared to respect the Irish result and to find out whether 'no' really means 'no'.

We will have to see how soon an opinion could be issued, since it must not come too late if we are to avoid a conflict of interests between the development of our cooperation with Pakistan on the one hand and the specific problems you have raised on the other.

That is the fundamental reason that pushed him to give a single presidential mandate to his Prime Minister Dimitri Mevdedev.

I've seen several leaders of large organizations assemble a team of enthusiasts and give them the mandate to go out there and experiment and prototype.

More Bishops of various dioceses, in camera caritatis they told me to have a hard time giving mandate to religious educators, giving reasons for their difficulties with phrases like this: "We have such a sample from not knowing where to fish, in a sea where the fish are often worse than the one '.

In that case, there will be no clear mandate for the British government to "return to the people", a pre-election or even a referendum can take place, "the expert said.

The people would still give a democratic mandate to their health Commissioner in the same way as they have given a mandate to their domestic health ministers.

The referendum may take place before the summer in order to give Mr Rasmussen a clear popular mandate when he participates in a June summit where EU leaders are set to decide on the competitiveness pact.