Translation of "Position darlegen" in English

I would like to use this opportunity to underline our position.

We, Parliament, must set out our position clearly.

Yes, maritime transport needs sovereign States that make it clear how they stand.

Let him speak and explain his position!

It is only natural that you cannot express your thoughts in such a short time.

Let me state my position.

As rapporteur for the 2011 budget, I will reflect the majority position, although I will also set out my own green position.

I should therefore like to take a few moments to inform you of the position prevailing in the Council on the main issues which are addressed by the three rapporteurs, Mrs Trautmann, Mrs del Castillo and Mr Harbour.

I regret that the Czech Republic is unable to defend itself here and present its case, as it is always good to hear both sides of such a complicated argument.

I have not mentioned Chechnya, because a sitting was dedicated almost entirely to this issue last month and I should like to remind Mr Staes that if he wants to know what the Presidency's position on Chechnya is, he should attend the sittings or read the Minutes of this Parliament, because it is unacceptable for us to hold a debate on Chechnya lasting hours, for the Presidency and the Commission to state their position and the following month for someone to claim that we are saying nothing on the matter.

This is why the Luxembourg Presidency asked participants to start by discussing what the aims of the European Community should be over the next 20 or 30 years — we do not, after all, call intergovernmental confer ences every year — because we can draw practical les sons for the powers of the Community from these aims and, ultimately, look at all the institutional consequences.

Students should detail their role, actions, rise to their position, and what major contributions they had to Lincoln's presidency.

We want to understand their particular expectations of us and explain our position to them to win their acceptance of our actions.

This is why Workers Power, which poses as an orthodox Trotskyist tendency, cannot openly state its real position: that the defense of the social gains of the Russian Revolution was subordinate to the overthrow of the Stalinist bureaucracy.

At a meeting of several hundred people, my boss told me to state my position first.

Such influence must, however, be conditional on nationality.

Consequently our group is proposing that, after Mr Santer's statement, each group should first be given three minutes in which it can at least express an opinion on the substance.

I would like to end my speech, Mr President, by thanking the European Parliament for being kind enough to allow the Presidency to participate in this sitting, during which I believe we will not only be able to explain the Presidency' s positions, but also reply to the questions and initiatives which the different parliamentary groups and Members may raise on structural reform in Europe and on the priorities of the Spanish Presidency.

Before presenting the Commission' s position, I would like to point out that, in drawing up its proposal, the Commission based its work, on the one hand, on the experience and functioning of the voluntary code of the last six years and, on the other, on a study of the legislation of the Member States, some of which have a great deal of experience in providing their citizens access to documents.

In its decision of 13 July 1987 the Council interpreted Article 145 of the EEC Treaty in a very restrictive fashion, setting up a whole series of committees of various types made up of national civil servants, ('commitology'), ranging from advisory committees to committees whose role is so limiting that they effectively abolish the Commission's executive power (regulatory and manage ment committees).

Paleokrassas, Member of the Commission. - (EL) Mr President, I am glad that a very interesting debate has taken place on this most topical subject.