"investido" in English

MrBarroso, your team will no doubt be confirmed in office tomorrow, but will be so without our support.

A majority of this House will be investing a great deal of political capital in you tomorrow.

I would like to draw attention to the absence of the Commissioner for External Affairs who has already been appointed.

to be inaugurated president

May I remind you that there will only be a new Commission when the European Parliament inaugurates it by vote of confidence.....

(FR) Mr President, here you are invested for six months in the rotating and brief role of President of the European Union.

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Member States have also invested fisheries inspectors with legal powers of control and the power to initiate sanction procedures. Everything ought, in this way, really to be in order.

The debate has also quite rightly revealed that your confidence is conditional, based on my word, because that is all I can offer for the time being.

The Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty have given Parliament real power in a number of areas: single market legislation, environment, research and social affairs.

Now, in contempt of the Treaties, believing it is entrusted with a mission of salvation, our Parliament marches on, head down, to push this text through, come what may.