Translation of "Ich war der auffassung" in English

I've been assuming that all Divergents are the same.

It was our understanding that Mr Anselmo was in protective custody.

It was my understanding that everyone had heard...

I always was of the opinion

I thought that I had been completely cured.

Because I was actually under the impression that this was a classic part of the auto-oil programme.

In this case however I judged that I should depart from normal practice.

I mistakenly believed that the second motion also involved a substitution of this kind.

But I thought we had agreed that there would be no debate; I would appreciate your ruling.

One, is the Council of Ministers sufficiently aware of the profound unease felt here in the European Parliament as a result of the loannina compromise?

For this reason I regard it as imperative that the EHLASS scheme be incorporated into the programme and that it form the basis for the development of actions with regard to both intentional and unintentional injuries.

I have always thought that, in order to improve a situation, it is necessary to take a new look at accepted ideas and not to stop at the first hurdle.

As for myself, I have never believed that we have the same values, whatever respect I may have for Russia, and I have known Russia for some time.

At the time I maintained that Article 20 should be applied more broadly and should include more rights for European citizens, because this would strengthen the concept of a European nationality and would demonstrate in practical terms the advantages offered by the European Union on a daily basis and would ultimately strengthen European solidarity.

I have always believed and always said that the only way to achieve peace is by direct negotiation between the parties concerned.

I have always felt that using this fund was effective, because it produces concrete results and meets specific and perfectly identifiable needs.

Mrs Terrón I Cusi, who was due to speak and who is coordinator of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, and Mr Hernández Mollar, who also sends his apologies, being unable to attend, as well as two other speakers. In these circumstances, concerning a matter where we require all the political groups to adopt a clear position, where it is a question of fundamental conflict between Parliament and the Council, I believed that it was important to have an in-depth debate and a full vote.

I myself was involved in one example where a very important report on antiSemitism seemed either to have been suppressed or improperly handled by that Agency, and it was my view then that far too much politics had been allowed to enter into the activities of the Agency in respect of that matter.

This is precisely why I thought that I should make a recommendation in an own-initiative report for the online music market to be regulated in a different way.

I took the view that I fully supported the content of the original text of Amendment 21.

I have always thought that infrastructure should be public and that services should be paid for by those that use them.

Nevertheless, I felt that the need for a registry of closed sites and previously occupied new sites was particularly important if we were really to establish the full extent of the problem across Europe.

I have always taken the view that isolating that country would do no good at the international level and would do nothing to advance peace in the region, and it is for that reason that I am a supporter of the plan for an association agreement, which has been put on ice ever since the assassination of Rafiq Hariri.

That is why I believed, and I said so at the time before the Committee on Industry, that a parallel intervention by Members of Parliament in a WTO procedure seemed to me to be rather strange, even inappropriate, and I said at the time, and I shall say it to you again now, that I believe that a proper exchange of information between us should have the effect of avoiding any repetition of this type of incident in future.

I have always believed that the only way to succeed in achieving the necessary balance between resource, harvesting and conservation and to better encourage compliance with any management regime is to have a regime with which the stakeholders can have some faith.

I took the view, however, that Socrates and 'Youth for Europe', being topics of overall relevance to many areas of European policymaking, have to be presented to a broader public, as this public has had various grumbles and complaints about the way they have been managed.

I therefore felt that the procedure defined in Rule 130a of the Rules of Procedure should have been followed.

I have always believed that in any discussion about natural disasters - knowing, once again, that they do not all have natural causes, and there was nothing natural about the Prestige and the Erika - whatever the truth of the matter, I have always believed that, in all of these cases, prevention is less costly than repair.

I have always believed it is very important that there is equality of representation with regard to the future composition of the European Commission.