That might be taken as a dig at the Britain, whose parliament on Thursday voted against joining any military action.
His message was consistent – as was the BBC, whose parliament feed failed during the event, after cutting out during Miliband's speech on Tuesday.
And they were particularly effusive towards the Netherlands, whose parliament adopted a belt-tightening budget even after the government had fallen.There was no sign of expected proposals from the European Commission to extend deadlines for some countries to reach their deficit targets.
At one point the party suspended the Lord Provost, Pat Lally, only to have that decision overturned by a Scottish court.Now Glasgow faces an uneasy future in a Scotland whose Parliament will be in Edinburgh, the city's perennial rival.
Mr Siming had a natural experiment available to him in Sweden, whose parliament voted to forbid the awarding of orders of merit in 1974 after two centuries of doling them out.
The biggest blow was dealt by the normally reliable Brits, whose parliament stunned Obama on Thursday by voting down prime minister David Cameron's proposal to join the attack on Bashar Assad's government".
It is a response endemic in a country whose parliament is spearheaded by two polar-opposite parties who each hijack particular words or phrases - "(no) surrender", "unity" - to talk to their respective communities.
These banks are also under pressure from European countries that have suffered tax leakage, including Germany, whose parliament has rejected a deal that would have allowed the Swiss to make regular payments of tax withheld from clients while avoiding having to name names.Swiss bankers gamely argue that bank secrecy remains intact, pointing out that privacy laws have not been dismantled.
There was, of course, a predictable backlash from conservative Christians, in particular the Protestant clerics whose Parliament agenda was to demonstrate the superiority of their faith.
It reassures our citizens, whose national parliaments cannot vary a regulation, to see their MEPs engaged in preparing balanced and effective legislation which seeks to enhance their lives.
