Translation of "Grundlegenden frage" in English

This leads me to a fundamental question.

This leads to the fundamental question of a trade-off between consolidation and growth.

We’ll get there, but let’s start with the most basic question:

Here we confine ourselves to the fundamental elements of this question.

The viewer is confronted with the fundamental question of what empathy is.

On this fundamental question I had no differences with Lenin.

Now let us consider the second main question, the grain problem.

Most of you out there consider this an old issue.

Matters of such fundamental importance to Parliament require that Parliament be given the full right of codecision.

One looks in vain to the report, however, for a serious discussion of this legally and politically quite crucial issue.

And when economists confront a fundamental question, fundamental disagreement often follows.

There are other famous quotations on this fundamental question of the power to create the currency.

Put the skirt of the basic matter face to the lining under the festoons and prostrochite.

He also broaches the big question: are we alone in the universe?

If you're a God fearing person, please pray about your understanding of this foundational issue.

This gives rise, therefore, to a fundamental question - does the motion which has been submitted have as an objective the development of a number of EU countries, or is it also a serious step on the road to building a separate military bloc in competition with NATO?

Now we are going to have to get down to the practical matters and, in particular, to an essential issue that we have been skirting round, that of own resources.

However, it will very soon be looking again at the whole question of the use of permitted antibiotics in feed.

From what I have said so far you can draw the conclusion that the Commission is able to approve Amendments Nos 8 and 13 which concern the fundamental issue of labelling.

I know how hard the Commission worked on getting the balance right between being over-prescriptive from the point of view of directives and allowing Member States some discretion, but it does rather shake one's faith in the amount of discretion that is left to the Member States when on something as basic as the definition of affordability there really has been comparatively little progress.

Frustrated because, after lengthy debates within the Committee on Budgets and after the commendable efforts of the general rapporteur, to whom I must pay tribute, I cannot see exactly what Parliament' s intentions are regarding the key problem of the revision of the financial perspective.

On the crucial issue of the institutions, however, the proposal of a satisfactory all-round formula is to its credit.

I therefore hope that today's debate, in which all the parliamentary groups are participating and showing interest, will be a step forward, breaking this ten-year silence and allowing the Commission to exercise its monopoly on initiatives in this fundamental area responsibly.

When we addressed the substance of the matter, your preparatory work in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, as I said, under the chairmanship of Mr Napolitano, made our task considerably easier, as did your reports, which sometimes preceded and sometimes accompanied our debates, such as the report by Mr Alain Lamassoure on the key issue of competences in the European Union.

This debate is therefore timely but, I would insist, we must remember that, if we agree on the fundamental issue, as we do in general terms, we must also agree on the form and the procedures, and act with the greatest diligence, as has been reiterated here.