– (IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Hamas may well have put on sheep’s clothing, but beneath that sheep’s clothing the wolf can still sometimes be seen, if it is really true that, in the last few days, the Interior Minister, Said Siam, in moving away for the first time from a practice introduced by President Arafat to help secularise the country, has encouraged a visible sign of the Talibanisation of Palestine along Hamas lines, by allowing Palestinian policemen to grow their beards.

The study we are embarking on will go a little further in the analysis for us to try to understand not just what the nature of the price differentials are but the reasons for those price differentials, which are potentially related to the generic industry in Canada or other market factors in Canada that are somewhat different from those in other countries.

The new approach to TSI management is seriously worrying the rail sector. Until now, the role played by the AIEF was able to ensure close cooperation at European level between the Community authorities, which were anxious to speed up the process as far as possible, and the railway sector. In the Commission’s proposal, the sector’s representatives find themselves excluded and, although the need to push ahead with integration is met by the central agency, transparency and representativeness will be sacrificed unless experts from the sector are involved.

We owe it to ourselves and to the people of Montenegro and their courageous president, Milo Djukanovic who has managed to keep his people out of this conflict, to ensure that we and our NATO allies do nothing that would push his people into a war situation.

This could induce politicians to find a way around the law to raise the money they need, and create a gap that may produce precisely the kind of circumstances Mr. Gomery's commission was brought in to look into.