Translation of "Politischen stellungnahme" in English

The EU Election Observation Mission was right not to be seduced into adopting a political stance.

The rapporteur underlines the political nature of the opinion.

Mr Mengozzi also expressed surprise at the political tone adopted by the rapporteur.

The art of Juan Luna and Félix Hidalgo showed a trend for political statement.

This means that the European Union must assume a leading role in formulating a global political response.

However, that is best placed as a political statement rather than changing the text itself.

In that case, if the motion of censure is unsuccessful, the Members who are tabling the motion of censure would also be able to agree with some of the resolutions established through the parliamentary policy statement.

Clearly, not all courses of action have been taken but it is equally clear that, regarding this specific fact, there is a case for an assessment to be made and for a political opinion to be issued.

In that regard I would also like to stress that protectionism must be rejected, a point we defend in our policy position, and advocate in short for us to finally lay the foundations in the European Union for economic growth which creates employment, which is the true pillar of European integration.

This would mean - in my group's view - a short text this week. We should not allow the opportunity to issue a political opinion to pass us by.

It is true that for several years a tendency has emerged within the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market and more generally in this Parliament, aimed at protecting MEPs' opinions or the MEPs against whom proceedings are brought as a result of opinions or attitudes which may arise from a political point of view, in the broadest possible sense.

She mentioned that the forthcoming EESC opinion on minorities could, for example, provide a basis for a seminar linking the political content of opinions to a cultural context.

The policy recommendations set out in the opinion are accompanied by a technical report providing an analysis complementary to the Commission's report.

As yet there is no evidence that foodstuffs containing ingredients from genetically modified (GM) plants are anyless safe than their non GM counterparts,claims a new policy statement issued bythe UK’s Royal Society on 8 May.

Petitions Nos 22, 23 and 25/79 have been referred to the Political Affairs Committee for an opinion.

I have done that because I felt it was not right for the chair man of the Political Affairs Committee to express a view (a) on behalf of his committee and (b) on behalf of the Parliament without consulting Parliament as a whole.

In addition to its political contribution (an opinion drafted by Mercedes Bresso, President of the Piedmont region, on Plan D and the White Paper on communication and information policy is to be adopted on the eve of the European Council of 16 and 17 June 2006), the Committee of the Regions has taken the initiative to launch a series of events in Brussels and the Member States to facilitate communication between the European institutions and regional and local authorities, thereby harnessing the support of the decentralised communication

There is a need for stronger political will and for the political level of the negotiations on reforming the Union to be raised immediately. It is therefore important that the debate on the future structure of the Union has been reopened following the positions adopted by Minister Joshka Fischer.

It can be demonstrated with the greatest precision how with the change in the productive relations a change of political view and attitude has taken place in the bourgeoisie.

The staging of political messages with the means of advertising techniques all the way to the choice of terms ("global fascism" as advertising hyperbole) and Guy Debord's collage technique that originated in the logic of the art field, which also seeks to devalue the specific mediality of advertising techniques as detournement in addition to the political statement.