"lírica" in English

Of course, I do not intend to confine myself to a lyrical and idyllic vision of internationalisation here.

Having said this, I will move on to a more light-hearted consideration of the guidelines for the 1999 budget procedure.

After the compliments, let us now get down to the facts.

We have heard enough political rhetoric.

All these points are important and I can only hope that we will move from the lyrical words of the Green Paper to facts in the White Paper.

Ladies and gentlemen, when the draft Constitution was adopted, some people waxed lyrical on the subject of what they called the ‘spirit of the Convention’.

To get down to the facts, I should like to give an example of how what the Legal Affairs Committee is proposing would actually have worked out over the last 25 years.

The crucial element of this Treaty and of the refrain that forms the basis of this report is to be found in the ambition expressed in recital F and in what follows on from this.

In the lyrical mode of illusion and evasion that they are so fond of, at Sintra, the Fifteen decided to equip themselves with an action force that is 'pretentiously ' called autonomous.