"ceñir" in English

I, however, believe that there is a middle way between killing and dying, which we must take.

So I do not see why we have to stick to the old MFF and simply continue with the policies of the past.

I refer to what President Dini said here this morning.

Now I do not want to enter into a general discussion and will naturally restrict myself to the terms of the question.

The urban question is so important that we cannot tighten our belts and undervalue it with a programme which has such a small budget.

Thus we are not taking money away from what we can and should do in Africa because of what we are doing in Iraq.

As a result, the pensions of employees in companies in many countries are at great risk, as they are, for example, in Mr Purvis’ s country.

– Madam President, unlike the previous speaker, I will mainly be focusing on the directive for which Mrs Kauppi is the rapporteur.

We will have to come back to the other more general political questions, because I would like to restrict my comments to the proposal before us.

In terms of actual spending and implementation, we have, in spite of all the difficulties, been able to stick very closely to the plan and expectations.

Russia was being discussed just now, and the document expresses our awareness that relations with Russia cannot be confined merely to a neighbourhood relationship.

I shall be brief in my remarks; much has been said about this subject, not only today, but in the past, so I shall restrict myself to what is absolutely necessary.

Ladies and gentlemen, we should also beware of restricting the exercise of that flexibility or stronger cooperation with such tight rules that they would make it practically inoperative.

I hope that you will nevertheless understand that I, as President of the Council, must limit my reaction to those aspects which are related to the Council or the Union's institutions in general.