Obviously, simple management by the intergovernmental conference is not enough.

The intergovernmental conference will have to concern itself with that.

With the intergovernmental conference we were going to try to bring Europe closer together.

We have put forward a number of proposals to this effect in the political union intergovernmental conference.

The work of the intergovernmental conference received a fresh stimulus.

Let me make a brief comment on the second point, the intergovernmental conference.

We have exhausted the present method of the intergovernmental conference.

However, the Commission itself cannot do that; any such change has to take place in connection with the next intergovernmental conference.

In all these areas, the intergovernmental conference has proved ineffective.

Then we would not need another intergovernmental conference but could make considerable progress in this area.

Member States recognized this during the negotiations at the intergovernmental conference.

The possibility of holding an intergovernmental conference, now or at some point in the future, could be discussed.

I hope the participants in the intergovernmental conference will agree and finally set out definite rules.

Do you not feel that the limits of the intergovernmental conference system have been demonstrated?

This needs to be addressed at the forthcoming intergovernmental conference.

Then there is the major question of the next Intergovernmental Conference.

This decision needs to be taken by the next Intergovernmental Conference.

You have said everything there is to say about the Intergovernmental Conference.

I have been involved in three intergovernmental conferences myself as a civil servant.

In practice, this will mean a new intergovernmental conference.

And this is the real question of the Intergovernmental Conference.

We say this quite clearly in the run-up to the intergovernmental conference.

However, the deadline being set down for the next intergovernmental conference is very ambitious indeed.

It was one of the largest intergovernmental conferences on climate change ever.

The intergovernmental conferences now under way raise vital issues for the future of this country.