Translation of "Mein bedauern ausdrücken" in English

Nevertheless, I cannot fail to express my regret at the choices regarding the language regime.

I want to offer you my sincerest regret.

I was hoping you'd express my regrets to intelligence.

I'd like you to express my... deepest regrets to Amaro's wife.

Allow me to express my sympathy.

Or should I offer my condolences?

Mr President, I would first like to express regret for the fact that Mr Seal has not been present.

Madam President, once again I can only regret the positions adopted by the Council and what has just been said here by the Commissioner, who persists in not getting to the bottom of the issue and not recognising the need to review the decisions reached on the dismantling of milk quotas.

Mr President, I should like to begin by expressing my regret that the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development was unable to come to any opinion on these reports in committee.

I would, however, say as an aside that I regret that in staffing issues we do not make more use of fixed term contracts.

To begin with, I regret that we have not taken up the amendment that was discussed in the Legal Affairs Committee.

On behalf of the Committee on the Environment, I will begin by expressing my regret that the Swedish Presidency has decided to finalise this dossier without waiting for Parliament's report.

Nevertheless, I would like to express my regret that because this proposal was rushed through its first reading so quickly it did not receive the discussion time it deserved.

Mr President, first of all I want to say to the previous speaker, Mr Fatuzzo, that I am sorry that we in the Group of the Party of European Socialists are unable to support his amendments, for they simply do not fit into this context.

I must express my regret that at the start of this consultation process it did not respect the principle of reasonable cooperation with Parliament as it refused to send the evaluation reports prepared by the experts, on security grounds.

But, as has been stressed repeatedly here today, since this concerns one of the key aspects of European enlargement, and the progress made here can only really be assessed with reference to detail, I would again express my regret that we are having this enlargement debate at a time when the Commission' s progress reports 2000 are as yet unavailable.

Finally, I should like to express my disappointment with Ecofin for its rushed attempt to pre-empt tomorrow's vote here by issuing details of its compromise agreement.

Finally, I should like to express my regret once again that our committee has not had a proper opportunity to debate extensive amendments to the original text of this report, and I should like to call for Parliament to support the amendments proposed by the ELDR Group, so that we, too, can support, or vote in favour of, the final report during the final vote.

Although I agree in principle with the report currently before us, I must express my unhappiness at the fact that, whilst going into considerable detail about the right to quality of life being the most important right pertaining to the disabled, the rapporteur implicitly devalues what really is the most fundamental right of all: the right to life itself.

Finally, I too regret that we are building walls between ourselves and the new Member States in the shape of various types of transitional rules.

I shall just conclude by saying that I think it was a pity that Mr Jens-Peter Bonde had got the wrong script for his intervention today.

In this connection, I would also say how genuinely sorry I am that the Council is unwilling to be represented at this round-table conference.

I regret that the European Commission does not have at its disposal either methods or reliable statistics for analysing the budget by gender.

Mrs Maij-Weggen (PPE). draftsman of the opinion of the Committee of Inquiry into the Situation of Women in Europe. — (NL) Mr President, I rise in this debate on the reform of the European Social Fund not on behalf of my group, but in my capacity as rapporteur for the Committee of Inquiry into the Situation of Women in Europe.