Traduction de «Plis nettement plus profonds » (Français → Anglais) :

Important results have been achieved during this cycle, mainly during the last two years, but we are expecting a significantly deeper commitment and a greater sense of initiative in the future from this body which, as the exclusive initiator of Community legislation, can be the driving force in the battle against the poverty and exclusion affecting Europe’s largest minority, the Roma.

(10) Despite the existing Union legislation aimed at preventing and combating sex discrimination, the Council recommendations aimed specifically at increasing the presence of women in economic decision-making and Union-level actions encouraging self-regulation, women continue to be strongly outnumbered by men in the highest decision-making bodies of companies throughout the Union. In the private sector and especially in listed companies this gender imbalance is particularly significant and acute.

– (ES) Mr President, we all agree that the current crisis is much more severe and much deeper than had been forecast.

However if I were to express some ideas in poetry, they would go much deeper.

G. whereas disparities between the various countries have been reduced in recent years thanks to the cohesion policy, yet at the same time the disparities between the regions in certain Member States have increased so that major economic and social imbalances remain among the European Union's different regions, reflected in unemployment and poverty rates much higher than the Community average, low levels of education and training, inadequate infrastructures, backwardness in research and innovation, and levels of competitiveness lower ...[+++] than in the more advanced regions,

This must be taken much further by: - ensuring smooth operation of the internal market: further deregulation, based on the Molitor working party set up for this purpose, combined with redefinition of the public service objectives, streamlined, transparent procedures and improved decision-making structures; and - making full use of the instruments available to facilitate industrial change, putting the accent on small businesses and taking account of the regional imbalances; using the Structural Funds, particularly the Community initiative programmes, to facilitate the development of competitive clusters of activities, combined with improved training, dissemination of technology and closer par ...[+++]tnerships between big and small firms, etc. The competitive position of European industry In recent years European industry's competitiveness has improved considerably: - the European Union had a trade deficit with the USA in the late '80s, but improved its position appreciably in the early '90s when it cut its trade deficit by 90%, from ECU 21 billion in 1991 to ECU 2 billion in 1993; - European companies' financial structures are far healthier and their average debt ratio is well below their rivals'; - unit labour cost trends over the last ten years in the European Union compare favourably with those of its leading rivals: between 1980 and 1993 real unit wage costs fell more sharply in the Union (down 9.7%) than in the USA (1.2%) and Japan (8.3%).