were debating

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Mr President, yesterday we were debating the effectiveness of development aid in this House.	Señor Presidente, ayer debatimos en esta Casa la efectividad de la ayuda al desarrollo.
Two months ago we were debating precisely this question here, in the context of an emergency resolution on Venezuela.	Hace dos meses debatimos precisamente esta cuestión aquí, con ocasión de una resolución de urgencia sobre Venezuela.
To understand that, let us recall where we were a few months ago, when we were debating the issue of Iraq.	Para entenderlo, recordemos donde nos encontrábamos hace unos meses, cuando debatíamos la cuestión del Iraq.
That is something we said a short while ago when we were debating the Rapid Border Intervention Teams.	Eso ya lo dijimos hace un tiempo, cuando debatíamos los Equipos de Intervención Rápida en las Fronteras.
We cannot discuss the issue of European defence as if we were debating the need for a European directive on jam.	No podemos discutir el asunto de la defensa europea como si debatiéramos la necesidad de una directiva europea sobre la mermelada.
Yesterday, in fact, we were debating the report by Mrs Hulthén and we saw that the environment is fundamental within the topic of employment.	Ayer mismo discutíamos el informe de la Sra. Hulthén y veíamos que el medio ambiente, en el tema del empleo, es fundamental.
Six months ago, when we were debating the situation in Afghanistan, they were the symbols of the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, and even of their own oppression.	Hace seis meses, cuando hablábamos de la situación en Afganistán, fueron el emblema de la destrucción de los Budas de Bamyan, e incluso de su propia opresión.
In fact, on Friday 19 September, as many of you will recall because there were many of us present, we were debating the excellent report by Mr Hallam in this House.	Efectivamente, como muchos de ustedes recordarán, ya que éramos bastantes, el viernes 19 de septiembre debatíamos en sesión pública el excelente informe de nuestro colega Hallam.
Would she answer in the same way if such incidents of flagrant violation of the freedom of the press were to happen in Hong Kong, for example, which we were debating a little while ago?	¿Respondería del mismo modo si dichos acontecimientos de violación flagrante de la libertad de prensa sucedieran, por ejemplo, en Hong Kong, sobre el que debatíamos hace unos instantes?.
Last week we were debating the future of the Cohesion Policy, and unanimously agreed that it has brought about huge advances in economic and social development in many of our regions.	La semana pasada debatíamos el futuro de la política de cohesión con un acuerdo unánime en que esta política con mayúsculas ha permitido avanzar en el desarrollo económico y social de gran parte de nuestras regiones.
(NL) Mr President, as we were debating Mr Louis Grech's excellent report, I gained the impression that both Parliament and the Commission were aware of the need to make the internal market more socially oriented.	(NL) Señor Presidente, mientras debatíamos el magnífico informe de Louis Grech me dio la impresión de que tanto el Parlamento como la Comisión eran conscientes de la necesidad de que el mercado interior tuviese una dimensión social.
Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to congratulate Mr Imbeni because I believe he has produced a splendid report and, while we were debating it in committee, we were already in complete agreement with his proposals.	Señor Presidente, señor Comisario, en primer lugar quiero felicitar al compañero Renzo Imbeni porque creo que ha elaborado un informe espléndido y que, ya cuando lo debatimos en comisión, estábamos totalmente de acuerdo con las propuestas que nos hacía.
That's what we were debating.	Eso es lo que estamos debatiendo.
If we were debating that EPA today, we would have to enter our reservations regarding Madagascar.	Si tuviéramos que debatir ese AAE hoy, tendríamos que introducir nuestras reservas en relación con Madagascar.
Just last year, it was the carcinogenic substances in toys known as softening agents that we were debating.	Precisamente el año pasado estuvimos debatiendo sobre las sustancias cancerígenas que pueden encontrarse en los juguetes, conocidas como agentes suavizantes.
As a native of Auvergne, I would remind you that just about a year ago we were debating the Michelin crisis in this Chamber.	En efecto, como auvernesa, les recordaré que hace aproximadamente un año, en esta Asamblea, se discutía sobre la crisis de Michelin.
Earlier on today we were debating the budget for next year and the difficulty of the European Union finding sufficient finance to fund the operation in Kosovo.	Hoy hemos debatido el presupuesto para el año próximo y la dificultad de la Unión Europea para conseguir fondos suficientes con vistas a financiar la operación en Kosovo.
We planned another journey to the area at the beginning of August, but due to a possible armed stoppage we were debating whether or not we would be able to undertake the accompaniment.	Teníamos previsto otro viaje a la zona para principios de agosto, pero debido a un posible paro armado debatíamos si podríamos realizar el acompañamiento o no.
It would no longer be necessary to discuss precisely those minimum standards for procedural safeguards that we were debating in great depth earlier if our Treaties had a single legal basis.	Ya no serían necesarios más debates precisamente sobre estos criterios mínimos para las garantías procesales que hemos debatido muy a fondo antes, si nuestros Tratados dispusieran de un fundamento jurídico único.
Mr President, yesterday, in the debate on the banana issue, my colleague, Mr Liese, discovered a discrepancy between the resolution we were debating and one that had been handed in. It concerned three missing words.	Señor Presidente, nuestro colega Liese advirtió ayer, durante el debate sobre la cuestión de los plátanos, que existía una discrepancia entre una ponencia ya entregada y otra posterior, se trataba de la falta de tres palabras.