Translation of "Land an der peripherie" in English

It is not in the interest of Europe – or the world – to have a country on Europe’s periphery alienated from its neighbors, especially now, when geopolitical instability is already so evident.

If the procedures had been clear in November 1987 when the Single Act took effect, we as Parliament would have asked that this Council text be debated at the first reading stage. As it was, Parliament regrettably decided to treat the proposal as a second reading.

Whether what is happening in this small country of the European periphery is to be considered as a contemporary story of "crime and (benevolent) punishment" or as a preview of a pattern preparing to be applied all around Europe has been – and still remains – at stake.

Now, it is more evident than ever how interdependent the European countries are, since developments even in a small country of the Southern periphery can create a “butterfly effect”, so strong that it can shake European decision-making in its core.

Whether what is happening in this small country of the European periphery is to be considered as a contemporary story of “crime and (benevolent) punishment” or as a preview of a pattern preparing to be applied all around Europe has been – and still remains – at stake.

There is often the search, for example, for cheap land on the periphery of the big cities; however this prevents the people from accessing the labor market.

As the successor state to the Danube monarchy, Austria was in no way an underdeveloped country on the fringes, but rather an industrialised state in the very centre of Europe.

Now, it is more evident than ever how interdependent the European countries are, since developments even in a small country of the Southern periphery can create a "butterfly effect", so strong that it can shake European decision-making in its core.

In the absence of even one English language bookstore in Ukraine and under conditions of very limited financial capacities for translation and publishing, Russian books as an information channel to the West "through the East" are still crucial for a peripheral country like Ukraine.

There is a danger that the peripheral nature of regions bordering on non­Community countries will increase whilst other regions which are now peripheral in their national context will become more central in a more integrated Community, in par­ticular those on Germany's western borders and in the border areas between France and Italy.

In the absence of even one English language bookstore in Ukraine and under conditions of very limited financial capacities for translation and publishing, Russian books as an information channel to the West “through the East” are still crucial for a peripheral country like Ukraine.

The Paneuropean Union had its headquarters in the Hofburg in Vienna. In the absence of realistic alternatives, Federal Chancellor Ignaz Seipel championed the concept of ‘Mitteleuropa’. As the successor state to the Danube monarchy, Austria was in no way an underdeveloped country on the fringes, but rather an industrialised state in the very centre of Europe. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the issue of its recovery and continued political existence was, however, at first an open one.

What do more peripheral countries need to really emerge artistically?

But countries at the periphery of the global financial system could not provide equally credible guarantees.ampnbsp;

I believe that tax competition harmonises opportunities within the EU and it enables small countries on the periphery of the Union to compete.

It could also be the way in which the countries on the periphery of Europe will converge more quickly with Europe.

Restrictions on transport may well improve, to some degree, the protection of the affected citizens and the environment in vulnerable regions from noise and pollution, but, in the long term, only determined support for rail travel can achieve the dual objective of securing the quality of life of the public in Central and Eastern Europe and giving the countries on the edge of the EU good access to the internal market.

Unless it introduces practical measures to support the countries at the periphery of the global financial system, global markets will suffer another round of decline, just as they did after United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s failure in February to produce practical measures to recapitalize America’s banking system.

Instead of setting a universal target of 2% of GDP for stimulus packages, it is enough to agree that the periphery countries need international assistance to protect their financial systems and engage in countercyclical policies.

The eurozone’s peripheral countries, including Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and Spain, found themselves pinned to the mast of the common currency, unable to gain competitiveness through exchange-rate depreciation.

But periphery countries without large export surpluses are not in a position to employ countercyclical policies.ampnbsp;

This partly explains both the hostile stance toward QE adopted in the German financial press and the over-indebted periphery countries’ increasingly desperate calls for more action by the ECB.

Without external constraints, public and private expenditure grew precipitously in many countries on the eurozone periphery, while wages rose faster than productivity.

Thus, countries on the EU’s periphery – Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain – with large public debt and current-account deficits, face lower real wages and high unemployment for some time.

Before the 2016 Brexit referendum, many on the EU’s periphery saw the UK as a barrier to French dirigisme and German power grabs.

This led to a temporary reduction in the financial strains confronting the debt endangered countries on the eurozone’s periphery (Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Ireland), sharply lowered the risk of a liquidity run in the eurozone banking system, and cut financing costs for Italy and Spain from their unsustainable levels of last fall.

The problem is not that the debt of countries on the eurozone’s periphery is too high, but that it has not been allowed to rise nearly high enough.

Sixth, even if Greece and other peripheral eurozone countries are given significant debt relief, economic growth will not resume until competitiveness is restored.

Relative to the rest of the countries on the eurozone periphery, Greece was subjected to at least twice the austerity.

The countries on the eurozone periphery, where credit might still be scarce, account for less than one-quarter of Europe’s economy.

Given the cement and lime manufacturing technology is at a mature stage it is expected to face competition from cement and lime producers in countries on the periphery of the EU which are not subject to the emissions trading scheme.

Unit labour costs decreased in 2013 in some of the euro area’s periphery countries, particularly Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Ireland, as wages fell.

In particular, in most of the countries of the euro area periphery, balance sheets shrinking because of private sector deleveraging, rising non-performing loans and the return to market funding, have led banks to decrease their reliance on central bank funding.

While this is to some extent a reflection of weaker than expected labour productivity growth, several countries – mainly in the euro area periphery – have undoubtedly shown signs of overheating.

To conclude my speech, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to take this opportunity to convey the support and good wishes for this initiative which the Parliament is discussing today of my colleague, Mr Visentini, who has taken part in the work of the Committee on Institutional Affairs from the begin ning and who has had to leave us at this very point because he has been called upon to become a member of the Italian Government as Minister for Finance.

The decision to use copyright as the main means of safeguarding computer programs naturally involves certain difficulties as regards the distinction between ideas and principles (which in themselves may not be protected) and their expression which, on the other hand, may be protected.

Countries on the periphery of Europe have also been encouraged by the Community's progress towards European integration to apply to join the EC. These include Turkey, Cyprus and Malta.

The EU manufacturing system appears to have taken advan­tage of European integration, shifting resources between industries and countries, and smaller coun­tries on the periphery of the EU have tended to bene­fit most.

This can be ensured by a vast advisory structure that operates flexibly and builds further upon that which Directorate-General XXIII has so far organ ized spontaneously.

The prospects of two million job losses in the Community because of 1992 means that we must have countervailing measures in the social and regional fields.