Whenever the Socialist Group in the European Parliament attempts to give the Members’ assistants a proper contract, with all the usual social security guarantees, the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats tries to stand in the way of such a statute for assistants.

I am glad to see that a hundred years later you have put Europe and the role it can play in the world of globalisation squarely at the centre of the debate on Christians’ social commitment.

In the words of Rathenov, did it bother him as a Christian Socialist negotiator, that, in the event of their becoming pregnant, these Vietnamese women were forced to have abortions?

Mr. Jean-Guy Chrétien (Frontenac, BQ) moved: Motion No. 5 That Bill C-60, in Clause 9, be amended by replacing lines 4 to 6 on page 3 with the following: ``9 (1) The Governor in Council shall, by order, direct that the head office of the Agency be in the location in Canada recommended by the committee referred to in section 9.1 (2) The Governor in Council may, by order, direct that the head office of the agency be in a location other than the one recommended pursuant to section 9.1 but shall not make any such order unless (a) the Governor in Council has provided the committee referred to in section 9.2 with all the reasons for such a cha ...[+++]nge; and (b) the committee has approved the change.

B. whereas the 'European social model' for the reform of Manchester capitalism which has emerged by combining New Deal approaches with social democratic and Christian democratic approaches has hitherto prevented a lapse back to the authoritarian and fascistic models for overcoming crises in the period between the wars and withstood all attempts to scale down the social and ecological market economy;

As a Christian leader, however, I firmly believe I must be involved in this crisis, especially on the human and social level, along with others, as this, in my opinion, is not only an economic crisis but a grave issue of social and moral concern.