"osado" in English

I would like to start by saying that you are a brave man, Prime Minister.

The urge to create and go where no one has dared go before.

And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings,

She recently took it upon herself to send a letter to the Polish Government concerning the merger of two Polish banks.

Purists could never accuse it of being franglais, not that I would ever dare to offer such an insult to the members of the Académie.

The Commission did not take it upon itself to say that this or that amount of capacity had to be cut in Greece or France or Germany.

Mr President, the report of the panel of experts on the illegal exploitation of natural sources of energy is particularly brave.

Who among the previous ten candidate countries would have dared, when embarking on their negotiations, not to recognise a Member State?

I must say I find it a bit rich for the Prime Minister of Belgium to come along here and tell 24 other nation states what they should do.

I was also thinking of an absent: the highly estimated magistrate, Mokhtar Yahyaoui, who dared to denounce the absence of independence of the judicial system in his country.

I would, instead, like to focus on the positive side of these innovations, this courageous step, to address a point which is, I am sad to say, too often disregarded.

They have not dared to break with the nationalistic approach which is really marring the European atmosphere and, in my opinion, they should have put forward a truly European proposal.