"para empezar" in English

For a start, one of the three parties to these contracts will be the Member State.

The Union for the Mediterranean is, to begin with, a union for practical projects.

Madam President, I wish to begin by congratulating the rapporteur on both reports.

I wish to begin by thanking the Commissioner for that very helpful response.

For a start, they must incorporate an amendment to Article 6 of the EU Treaty.

This is the only way that we can effectively begin to combat climate change.

Let me run through these three priorities, the added value, to begin with.

To begin with, I would like to thank Mr Sonik for his well prepared report.

Poland will be ready to start implementing the SIS II system by March2007.

Mr President, let me begin by congratulating the rapporteur on her report.

To begin with we would like to see more money being set aside for the LEADER programme.

For a start, the European budget has no deficit: it is always balanced.

First of all, I should like to give you a random example of this lack of clarity.

To begin with: to keep people locked up for 18 months is not acceptable.

To start with, it recognises that cities throughout Europe are facing the same challenges.

(NL) To begin with, I too wish to thank Mrs Haug and the Commissioner.

First of all, to my mind, one must distinguish between standards and patents.

For a start, Mr Bonde, I always allow something like an extra 10% speaking time.

Why accept the question at all if you are not going to go into the detail?

Mr President, allow me to start by congratulating our rapporteur, Mr Marinho.