Under the European proposal, some farm supports would be reduced, while others might be increased.

In private, senior Administration officials were caustic about the European proposals.

Under the latest European proposal, such items would amount to no more than 8 percent of total agricultural products.

The European Commission's proposal was not sufficiently complete to gain support.

We were very pleased with the European Commission's proposals last month.

I was among the first supporters of the idea behind the European Commission's proposal.

I look forward to the European Commission's proposals on that.

The European proposal to get the process going again by means of a code of conduct will not work, in my view.

Fifteen national parliaments cannot do so, because it is a European proposal and this task will fall to us if to anybody.

In effect it brings forward European proposals that will force companies to make these surcharges more reflective of the true cost.