Traduction de «balayer devant sa porte » (Français → Anglais) :

With its accountability neurosis, the new government, the Conservative government, should begin to set its own house in order by demonstrating its “sense of state”.

Building on the redoubled commitment shown by the EU with its 2004 Enforcement Directive, the EU and the US should enhance co-operation on intellectual property enforcement issues, starting by checking that their own house is in order, and moving on to address IP issues in selected third countries, especially through joint efforts to combat piracy and counterfeiting.

First of all, the ICT sector itself can ‘get its own house in order’ by improving energy efficiency at the level of components, systems and applications.

2. The operator, agent or master of a ship, irrespective of its size, carrying dangerous or polluting goods coming from a port located outside the Community and bound for a port of a Member State or an anchorage located in a Member State's territorial waters shall, at the latest upon departure from the loading port or as soon as the port of destination or the location of the anchorage is known, if this information is unavailable at the moment of departure, notify the information indicated in Annex I(3) to the competent authority of the Member State in which the first port of destination or anchorage is located.

Before considering shrinking the social safety net, before passing the buck to the provinces, the federal government must first put its own house in order.

Because of its role as initiator of the budget crisis, the federal government must first set an example; it must clean up its own act.