35. Considers Article 182 of the TFEU to be an improvement because the multiannual framework programme and the implementation of a European research area, referred to therein, will be covered by the ordinary legislative procedure; notes, however, that the specific programmes mentioned in that article will be adopted via a special legislative procedure, implying mere consultation of Parliament (Article 182(4) of the TFEU);

The methods referred to in Annex I which do not result in instantaneous death (hereinafter referred to as simple stunning) shall be followed as quickly as possible by a procedure ensuring death such as bleeding, pithing, electrocution or prolonged exposure to anoxia.

Non-human primates will respond to aural and visual stimuli, and by using simple reward systems, training can often be employed to encourage the animals to accept minor interventions, such as blood sampling.

Baboons can be easily trained to cooperate in simple routine procedures such as injections or blood sampling and to come to an accessible part of the enclosure.

I. considers, however, that the jurisdiction of the ordinary court is valid when disputes centred on disciplinary sanctions imposed by sports tribunals on clubs affiliated to the sporting federations and based on a failure to observe purely technical rules of a sporting nature to a large extent give rise to real and appreciable censure or loss of status of the affiliate. Not only measures to withdraw a sports club’s affiliation to a federation, but also measures to exclude it from a given championship, are outside the conceptual area and the ontological and substantial scope of sporting autonomy, for the simple but decisive reason that ...[+++]these are sanctioning measures which, in that they remove powers and, therefore, subjective legal positions covered by the general judicial sphere of the sports club, preventing them from developing and attaining of the social objective laid down in their constitution, necessarily and incontestably fall within the scope of national law and not solely within that of internal sporting rules,

I have posed four questions which bring me to a very simple conclusion. Forceful reaction to friends and allies dragging the world to ruin on the grounds of the misunderstood interests of a superpower which has lost the plot and asks no more than that we should bungle along with it!