Translation of "Economic harm" in German

Furthermore, road accidents cause great economic and social harm.

In the medium term, this might further harm economic growth.

Economic activities can harm the environment not least through pollution.

Infringements of intellectual property rights cause widespread economic harm.

Subsidies and economic incentives that harm biodiversity.

So, is economic inequality an economic good or an economic harm?

Precisely because malaria differs in this way from other infections, its economic harm is so huge.

This progressiveness will nevertheless prevent the causing of severe, and therefore potentially disproportionate, economic harm.

Apart from that, the IMF also criticises the existence of tax havens, which would also do tremendous economic harm.

It is in any event worth bearing in mind that protection against unjustified economic harm is provided for in Article 5(4).

According to the information provided, the strike and roadblocks made it impossible to find vehicles for the transport of agricultural produce and caused economic harm to the operators concerned.

In particular, it pays close attention to foot-and-mouth disease in exporting third countries because, as you know, the EU is free of this disease, which has the potential to cause serious economic harm.

It would be a counterproductive political gesture which would cause more economic harm to Europe than Israel because of the balance of trade that exists.

So we think it is very important that we should take account, in the ongoing reforms which we will continue to debate next week, of the need for across-the-board implementation of the principles of transparency, participation, equal opportunities and sustainable development - only 5.2 % is devoted to sustainable development - and for a balance between policies to preserve and create jobs and economic policies which do not destroy jobs, because sometimes economic policies do harm employment.

They will not suffer any competitive disadvantage or economic harm, since we know that they have been manufacturing this kind of barometer without using mercury for some time.

In some areas, tobacco can represent 35% of agricultural exports and a potential fall in production would do serious economic and social harm, particularly if the local economy is already in difficulty.

On the other side are the people responsible, whose faces are obscured behind flags of convenience and legal procedures distorted to this end, and with a view to fraudulently avoiding the rules of the internal market, without caring about possible ecological damage - which is now real - and social and economic harm, and, without wanting to be alarmist, the damage which may also be in store for other coastal areas as the result of a domino effect.

These rates are very low at the moment in Europe and they do not harm economic growth.

From this point of view, the situation of certain countries which continue to be affected by the problem of passes and whose production systems continue to suffer considerable economic harm as a result, is typical.

Even a directive from the government of the Federal Republic in Bonn to instead invest in badly needed renovations of the S-Bahn, coupled with a warning that subsidies to Berlin would be reduced, was dismissed with the argument that cessation of the U-Bahn construction would cause severe economic harm to the city.

Some officials argue that foreign investors’ appetite for US government debt – the rest of the world holds almost half of all outstanding Treasury securities, worth more than $6 trillion – insulates America from economic harm.

Eurozone member states have increasingly gone their own way, even overtly defending nationalist economic policies that harm the eurozone as a whole.

Granting, for the sake of argument, the force of this logic (and even its critics could hardly deny its coherence), it would be foolish to underestimate the risk of runaway inflation and underplay the economic and social harm it would cause.

The economic harm done by this corporatist social model is aggravated by widespread state intervention in all parts of the economy.

The poor functioning of input markets, such as markets for energy or intermediary products, can also do a lot of economic harm, not least because it hampers external competitiveness.