This is an ostrich policy, because it does not address the rebid problem South will face after almost any response to a one-club opening.

We cannot pursue an ostrich policy.

If we routinely stigmatise persons stating this as racists, we only pursue an ostrich policy.

An Ostrich Policy relates to the inability of governments or people to acknowledge that a real problem or danger exists.

An Ostrich Policy is therefore the inability to act appropriately to avert danger or the inevitable consequences thereof.

It is not our task as MEPs to adopt an ostrich policy and bury our heads in the sand.

He recently described the Clinton Administration's refusal to study legalization of drugs as "not an ostrich policy, but a McCarthyite, Stalinist, fascist policy."

England and the rest of the world have discovered that burying your head in the sand doesn't work, and now each of them, especially England, is having to pay a heavy price for its ostrich policy.

In the future, the EU must not give up its targets, the commitment of three times 20% but, at the same time, it should reconsider its negotiating position and mandate, because we cannot pursue an ostrich policy.

Placing the Blame The author said those responsible for ignorance in Africa about AIDS were "doctors anxious to avoid panic," journalists with a "misplaced" sense of responsibility and governments "that have practiced an ostrich policy."

Rejecting an "AIDS capital" label that Brazilian newspapers often put on her city, the Mayor frequently accuses Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities of maintaining "ostrich policies" to avoid antagonizing local tourism industries over AIDS.

"This is a marked improvement in the administration's ostrich policy approach, and a tacit admission of how wrong it was last month in criticizing the speaker of the House and Congressional colleagues, including myself, for going to Damascus," Representative Tom Lantos, Democrat of California, said in a statement.

Many African governments have been accused of an Ostrich Policy concerning the AIDS epidemic, of which Thabo Mbeki's speech at the Opening Session of the 13th International AIDS Conference on July 9, 2000 in Durban, South Africa's president is probably the most notable.