| Brother and sister bunnies Bam and Bini and carrot-loving Tip Top are amoung the cuties looking for families. |
| I would remind Mr Bini Smaghi that without effective rules that are equally applicable to all, the EU would be nothing but a loose grouping with weak powers of coordination. |
| That this was not the case on this occasion is no discredit to Mr Bini Smaghi, but it is something we have to highlight. |
| According to Reuters, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi has refused to quit the Executive Board of the European Central Bank as requested by Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. |
| Mr Bini Smaghi seems to imply that the pact's own rigidities led to certain Member States breaking its rules and that the politics of the SGP made sensible economics impossible. |
| In order to prepare its position, the Parliament invited Lorenzo Bini Smaghi to appear before ECON to present his views and answer questions from Committee members. |
