Coming out with platitudes and good wishes for the workers in the European shipyards, who are concerned about their jobs, is simply not enough.

– (SV) Madam President, wishful thinking is not enough to bring about a changeover to sustainable, renewable energy sources and to a climate-friendly society.

8430 | Other moving, grading, levelling, scrapping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; piledrivers and pile extractors; snowploughs and snowblowers | Manufacture from materials of any heading, except that of the product | Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 45 % of the ex-works price of the product |

8430 | Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snow-ploughs and snow-blowers | Manufacture in which: the value of all the materials used does not exceed 40 % of the ex-works price of the product, andwithin the above limit, the value of all the materials of heading 8431 used does not exceed 10 % of the ex-works price of the product | Manufacture in which the value of all the materials used does not exceed 30 % of the ex-works price of the product |

Because the joint motion for a resolution refuses to acknowledge the correlation between cases of cancer and leukaemia in soldiers who served in the occupying forces in Bosnia and Kosovo and during the Gulf War and depleted uranium, it confines itself to a wish list of transparent discussions and working parties and merely calls for the Member States who are members of ΝΑΤΟ to propose that the use of depleted uranium weapons be stopped and for ΝΑΤΟ to study the possibility of using different types of weapons, in other words to continue killing, but with "clean" weapons. Typically, the proposed amendment from the group of the left calling ...[+++] for a ban on the production, testing, use and sale of depleted uranium weapons was ostentatiously rejected by the conservative majority of the members of the European Parliament, attracting a mere 23% of the votes.

In a number of reports - the Coates report of its Temporary Committee on Employment to begin with, and the Menrad and van Lancker employment reports - the European Parliament has developed some elements of an alternative economic strategy which would make employment a real priority in real political life instead of being the subject of pious declarations now being repeated all over again by EU summits.