Translation of "Sitzung leiten" in English

I've been asked to head today's meeting.

So I will be leading this session.

Greg, may I run the meeting?

The lady concerned is Mrs Ursula Schleicher who often chairs the Friday sitting here.

The meeting will be chaired by Mr Henri Malosse, President of the EESC Employers' Group.

My job is to chair this sitting and I am doing that in accordance with the Rules of Procedure.

Well, I call it all in one word "to lead the session" :)

Harrison had paid a facilitator from St. Paul to conduct the meeting.

Mr President, I should like to begin by congratulating you on the excellent spirit with which you are presiding over this evening's proceedings and the calm efficiency of your chairmanship.

I think this is a one-sided way to conduct the sitting and would like to ask that the centre and the centre-right should also have the right to put questions to the other speakers, because otherwise Members are not being treated equally.

For the morning, there is proof that I attended all of the roll-call votes and, for the evening, I had the privilege of chairing part of the sitting.

We shall discuss it amongst the few people who are leading the session here, and then it will certainly be possible next time to proceed in a more orderly fashion.

So I was just expressing anxiety and concern that he is not able to be here in the chair.

Mr President, I am glad that it is you who are currently in the chair, as you are also chairing the conciliation procedure on cosmetics and are as helpful a guide as one could wish to have in the conciliation procedure.

I believe that this does not in any way detract from your well-known, excellent ability to preside, Mr Martin, but I think that President Cox could come himself, with his authority – and I would also say with his clarity – and preside over this sitting.

The House of Lords may appoint a chairman for a committee; if it does not do so, the Chairman of Committees or a Deputy Chairman of Committees may preside instead.

The president then apologised for the fact that he would not be able to chair the rest of the session because he had been invited to participate in the 5th European Business Summit, being held in Brussels to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Rome Treaties.

Mr Hamro-Drotz, who would be chairing the Joint Meeting in Graf von Schwerin's absence, said the idea behind the draft programme was to improve coordination between the JCCs, to identify key topics which could be considered by all of them and to engage the JCCs more deeply in the preparations for accession.

The EESC meeting with the European Commission today now takes up the next phase of this process, ensuring that the changes Maggie Hughes has fought for become reality.

There is a compromise text, which will shortly be put to the vote, with Mr Onesta presiding.

It is no coincidence that you, Mrs Rothe, a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, are chairing this sitting today.

I would hope that there will be a investigation so that we can discover why this happened, why no­one had the initiative to get on the telephone and ask a Vice­President of the Parliament to come and start conducting our proceedings.