I took the opportunity to visit the museum.

The US, in particular, managed to dig its heels in at every opportunity.

From one Summit to another, and unfortunately from one failure to another, the whole of Europe is being penal ized and the peoples of Europe are being ridiculed.

All countries have seized the opportunity of the Charter process to articulate targets and objectives.

I hope the opportunity will also be taken to emphasize the importance of the policies of the developing countries themselves.

Further, it takes advantage of the opportunity to place financial aid to Turkey in the 'pre accession' heading.

And I am glad that before that happens he and his colleagues have taken as a collegiate body decisions concerning the budget for 1981 and the supplementary budget for 1980.

The G 20 Summit should also be an occasion for affirming some basic principles.

However, the opportunity is there to be seized and we have to ask whether we can get things right this time.

If this state of mind is allowed to triumph, I think it will be possible to seize the opportunity provided by the Convention.

So it is a pity that she missed the opportunity to address it in a more political way.

Thus, as oil prices have fallen, emerging market governments have taken advantage of the opportunity to reduce the fiscal subsidies.

The cyclists were happy to have the chance to show off their dancing movements in the open air despite their sporting feats on their bicycles earlier in the day.

3.1.1 In times of world crisis and high unemployment, the opportunity should not be missed to promote sea careers.

Over the past months good progress has been made in the various areas and the momentum needs to be maintained to establish a sound regulatory framework .

Perhaps the Council will attend more to our opinion in this Parliament in future without our having to bare our teeth.

And they've ended up on a bunch of talk shows, and they've used it as an opportunity to make a difference.

It is clear that the window of opportunity mentioned by the presidency should be exploited to the full.

It was, rather, a reflection of the choice made by the Minister and, behind him, the Government to send a clear message to every market player.

Rather than amending existing Regulations, this opportunity was used to codify large parts of the legislation in the dairy sector.

For these reasons the Commission has taken the opportunity to undertake a general revision and modernisation of the provisions concerning tax exemptions in international travel.

If this opportunity is to be made use of, a whole range of serious shortcomings are going to have to be overcome.

1.2 The EESC regrets, however, that the Commission has not seized this opportunity to put forward more tangible and structured proposals on the matter.

That will certainly be an opportunity to deal with their possible inadequacies and shortcomings, some of which have been rightly pointed out this afternoon.

As regards social and cultural consideration the stress placed on the regional dimension must please me as an elected member for Brittany.

He has had a wide range of contacts with many of the actors involved and has taken every opportunity to call for a constructive solution.

However, through a number of bilateral contacts with other parties and groups of parties the EU did seize every opportunity to explain our way of thinking.

2.12 In connection with the above, the EESC believes that taking advantage of the momentum , the EU has the possibility through the new RSAP to become the global leader in road safety and should not miss this chance.

It is not necessary to recall here in this Parliament the problems facing each Member State.

My proposal was discussed not only in Parliament, but also at the meeting in Brussels organized by Commissioner Tugendhat and by officials of the Directorate for Financial Institutions.

Mr Verges. (FR) Mr President, the Commission has been courteous enough to use this debate as an opportunity to inform Parliament of disaster aid and financial and food aid granted to Third countries.

At the same time , it expressed its concern about the lack of clarity in the rules of the corrective arm of the Pact and regretted that an opportunity had been missed to strengthen the role of the European Commission .

With the recent financial crisis still fresh in everyone's minds, he found it surprising that the Commission had not taken the opportunity to place restrictions on investments in derivatives.

I would like to ask the Commission two things first of all, do they plan to make a statement on this matter at this part session, as was requested, and if so, when? Secondly, do they realize that some of us here and an awful lot of people in our respective countries take this matter very seriously indeed?

It's a real bargain.

The fact remains and I, too, agree with the Members who have made this point that it is a pity that this opportunity cannot be fully exploited.

The opportunity should be seized to attain sound public finances within the programme horizons and by 2010 at the latest in all euro area countries .

Specifically , the ECB has made more frequent use of fine tuning operations

Or the opportunity.

Every year, we receive from the competent committee a report on Regulation 1408, which attempts to coordinate the social security of frontier workers. This contains amendment proposals, in order to bring this regulation up to date.

Other sectors call for the adoption of horizontal legislation on additive use to be taken as an opportunity for adapting the existing vertical Directives with regard to such use.

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It is incomprehensible that the evaluation of this directive has not been seized as an opportunity to better assess the problems of cross border employment of workers and to take new initiatives in this area.

If we enter the new era without having grasped this opportunity, we will have failed even to approach the sophistication our people deserve.