You may ask why we are voting in this way.

Would they follow the voting patterns of their husbands?

It is thus with this monster, this two armed, two minded budgetary authority that we have to tackle the difficult procedure for the adoption of the budget which is a fundamental

This makes a difference and affects the way we vote.

Have I done everything I can and voted in such a way as to achieve this goal?

I am extremely concerned about sailing into the unknown through an institutional fog. My vote was intended to express this concern.

All parties were expected to respect the principles of democratic centralism and the leading role of the SED.

In deciding your vote for President today, was the race of the candidate a factor?

Mr President, I would like to use my explanation of vote to explain my voting on the Hughes report.

Perhaps the Harvard students were simply voting with their own (future) wallets in mind.

So I think that in that respect voting behaviour will show that there is no great opposition.

At the same time, however, I note that Members were basically positively disposed towards the anti terror legislation and voted in favour of it.

An explanation of my vote is nevertheless needed, which I can only give through this statement.

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We are surprised at the position taken by the rapporteur, but also at the way in which the other Greek members cast their votes.

However, that vote does not mean we agree with all the recitals and all the proposals in it.

There are reasons why we are changing our voting behaviour and voting differently from our group on a number of amendments.

Nothing can be altered now I am saying this simply to explain my group's voting conduct.

We hope that it will be completed in the not too distant future and that we shall arrive at a satisfactory resultion.

The Portuguese members of the Socialist Group therefore reserve the right, after studying the results of the vote, to change the way they have voted.

I just want to check this is actually the case, because it does change the way people might vote.

Moreover, the report goes further than its original task, as defined in the title of the report.

(FR) Madam President, I would like to know if it is possible for each group to very briefly explain how it voted on this draft regulation.

Mr President, I wanted to press home my explanation of vote by this oral explanation following on from the Schroedter report with regard to regional development.

I feel we must not lose sight of the real situation which is that, in this European Community, there is a budgetary authority an authority that is which has the power to adopt the Community's budget but this authority, to use a colourful phrase currently in vogue, has two arms.

This does not in any way change my critical attitude towards the double standards of the Austrian Social Democratic movement, which were also plain to see yesterday in the way its Members voted.

I am particularly disappointed at the European Parliament' s vote on the report on the reproduction of vine plants.

As far as I am concerned, I defer the vote of the French socialist delegation on this report.

I hope, therefore, that Members will vote in such a way as to enable us to propose a solution on this point to the Council.

The President may only admit explanations of vote intended to prevent any misunderstanding of the voting behaviour of a Member.

For this reason, we have to adopt a different voting behaviour from our group on a number of these amendments.

I would urge him to do so for his answer will determine the way in which we decide to vote on the various proposed amendments we have before us.

Consequently it is beneficial to address these issues in separate legal instruments, an opinion reflected in our vote.

We, the Greens, believe that the votes delivered by Parliament today alter the very spirit of the proposal for a directive on which the Savary report is based.

Some appear to believe that the wisest course would be to revert to what they regard as the security of the absolutely sovereign, centralized and bureaucratized nation State shrouded in magnificent complacency.

Of course, my group' s vote will depend on the outcome of the vote on the committee' s amendments and also on the amendments that will be proposed tomorrow.

It also explains my group's actions in respect of the Lamassoure report on the division of competences and the adverse vote which resulted.

But, if voting was influenced by the financial sector, the supposed party of the plutocrats, the Republicans, should have voted in unison for the bill.

However, I have prepared a brief text, just one page, in order to explain PASOK's vote on the joint resolution to which Mr Glinne referred previously.

In this connection and in accordance with Rule 42(5) of the Rules of Procedure, there are going to be motions for resolutions with requests for an early vote. In other words, this rule is going to be applied for the first time since we have had the new Rules of Procedure.

This will also be reflected in our voting on certain elements of this report, where we have voted against, e.g. the section on enhanced cooperation.

Our vote and our position reflect the mutual interests of the local populations and the wild fauna which is threatened with extinction.

3 Mandatory transparency of institutional investors and asset managers on their voting and engagement and certain aspects of asset management mandates

I hope that the German Social Democrats who adopt an entirely different tone in their dealings with their Home Affairs Minister in Germany might change their voting behaviour today.

2 Recommendation on transparency of institutional investors and asset managers on their voting and engagement and certain aspects of asset management mandates