presidency of the Council

We expect your presidency of the Council to see it brought to an end.

Does the presidency of the Council know which body paid and how much the payment was?

The presidency of the Council will have no constitutional powers.

Moreover, my country has set three priority areas for its presidency of the Council.

The presidency of the council would pass from one minister to another every fifteen days.

The presidency of the Council has certainly achieved much in administrative terms.

We recommend that your presidency of the Council pays particular attention to them.

That is the view of the presidency of the Council.

I just wanted to ask if the Presidency of the Council might also take some action along these lines.

I call on the Presidency of the Council to do this.

Perhaps the Presidency of the Council might be so good as to move this process along a bit.

There is something else we expect of your presidency of the Council.

In that connection, it was also very pleasing to hear the presidency of the Council speak here today.

The Presidency of the Council will continue giving much importance to this matter.

This is exactly how I put it to the presidency of the Council yesterday.

I remember well when Austria held the presidency of the Council in 1998.

I would be interested to know what the Presidency of the Council thinks about that idea.

The Presidency of the Council changes every six months.

Yet who should grant this mandate, if not the Presidency of the Council?

Portugal has always done its best to serve the common interest when it held the Presidency of the Council.

We would be very grateful to you if you also took this into account in your presidency of the Council.

The presidency of the council rotated among the six members of the majority party.

I fear greatly that the system of the presidency of the Council will upset it.

I would like to extend very warm thanks to the Irish presidency of the Council.

We are pleased that the Presidency of the Council is paying attention to this issue, too.