1. Why do we need our meetings “all the more so as [we] behold the day drawing near”?

2. They were to do this ‘all the more so as they figuratively beheld the day drawing near.’

3. With hindsight, however, we must ask ourselves whether the European Union's generous support for the NGOs, which I consider justified in principle and which amounted to EUR 3.7 million, always found its way to the right destinations, all the more so as agitprop arguments to the effect that, for example, Zionism is equivalent to racism, are very much part of the political vocabulary of many States, Syria being one example.