Translation of "Vorab möchte ich" in English

Let me make two preliminary statements.

First of all, I just want to say, - it was rude, what I did.

Donald, let me preface this by saying that your Iowa Test scores are...

As soon as my report was announced, many of my colleagues set off on their holidays.

But first I'll tell you what the abbreviation LAMP stands for.

First of all I would like to say that I absolutely respect and support reasonable Wildlife Conservation.

Mr President, I wish to begin by congratulating Mrs Colombo Svevo on the quality of the report.

Thank you, Mr President, I am delighted with the agreement at first reading on River Information Services, and on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, I should also like to thank this rapporteur warmly for all her efforts and congratulate her on the result that has been achieved, for this is an important proposal for improving safety in inland navigation. Skippers will have extensive information at their disposal on water levels, lock levels and other sailing information across the whole of Europe, and thanks to this system, port and terminal businesses will be able to work more to their potential.

Madam President, firstly I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on a very courageous report.

I would like to start off by thanking the Vice President of the European Commission for the explanation he just gave us and, in turn, I would also like to explain why we requested this debate.

First of all I wish to say that together with my colleagues on the committee, I have tried to draw up a political balance sheet for the Lomé Convention.

My starting point must be that, as I understand the discussion I have been listening to, my opening remarks got a pass mark.

At the outset I should like to say that I am extremely disappointed at the response of the President-in-Office who continues to say that this will not be revisited.

First of all, I would like to thank my colleagues, particularly the shadow rapporteurs, representatives of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and members of regional committees, for their close cooperation in preparing this document.

Now, I think people who either live or work near an airport must expect to endure the inconvenience of planes landing and taking off.

I feel this figure alone shows that it is worthwhile exerting suitable political pressure.

Ladies and gentleman, what I have to say will be made all the easier by what previous speakers have said, and in particular by the admission by my friend Mr Schwartzenberg, with whom I should have been sorry to have to disagree, that he was not entirely in agreement with the report which bears his name. With your permission I shall be impersonal in my criticism and shall address my remarks to the report drawn up by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Will: Okay, guys, so first of all I want to welcome ms.

Well, let me begin by saying whatever Agent Cooper's guilty of will not be held against you.

Let me at the very beginning state that there is much that I agree with in these papers and very little that I disagree with as such.

It is a pity that the Ewing amendment was lost, as it appears to me that, contrary to the rapporteur's opinion, it would be better included in the direc tive.

It is very praiseworthy that the report emphasises the ability of adjustable tariffs to build, with transport, the missing bridge for everything entering and leaving the islands.

I would like to begin by thanking the rapporteurs Mr von Wogau, Mr Langen, Mr Rapkay and Mr Jonckheer, as well as the Commission, for their excellent cooperation.

Mr President, I would like to start by congratulating Mrs Theato on her report. I think it is a first-class report which will, for the most part, be supported by my group.

However, I firstly wish to thank especially the rapporteur, Mr Knörr Borràs, for his work, which, on this complex and technical issue, has offered us great support.