Translation of "Am gleichen strang ziehen" in English

We must all pull together.

The Member States and European Institutions need to pull together.

The Member States and the European Parliament must also pull together.

Lets head in the same direction!

We can only stand up to the Americans if the 27 Member States act in the same way.

It's important for parents to be on the same page when it comes to disciplining their children.

We all have to be pulling in the same direction if progress is to be made."

When it comes to the kids, John, we got to stay on the same page!

Every part of the economy has to pull together to achieve this if financing through IPA is to be effective.

I just know if we all pull together, we will do right by that little girl.

Is it easier to pull in the same direction on stage than in the studio?

Create operation standards for employees, so that everyone is on the same wavelength.

It is important that we have everyone on the same page, concerning my duties.

Parliament is already vigilant in this respect, but the Council and the Commission must pull in the same direction as us.

At the same time, however, it is paradoxical, because CSR and the social and environmental clauses pull in the same direction, namely, towards globalisation which is more respectful of human rights and the environment and which is conducive to sustainable development.

Therefore, I would like to ask you, and we have included this in the report, to make use of Article 173(2) of the Treaty of Lisbon, in order to coordinate industrial policy in the Member States more effectively, so that we really are all moving in the same direction.

However, we saw something very new in Copenhagen: whereas, in the past, the EU often had only a few partners when going into international negotiations and trying to get things done, this time, leaders representing more than 80% of global emissions in Copenhagen promised that, from now on, they would also be on track.

Therefore, I have always said - and I repeat it here today - that in order to move forward, good will is not enough, but we also need the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament to move in the same direction.

The urgency of this problem demands even greater efforts at the level of the EU and the Member States, and I therefore consider it essential for the Commission and the Member States to act in unison at the conference taking place at the end of October in the Japanese city of Nagoya in order to increase the effectiveness of their approaches and to achieve measurable and realistic targets with binding time limits.

In other words, with these measures that we are taking, unless we bring the United States, China and India into line, it is like making our own car and paying a great deal of money, while our next-door neighbour drives round with a broken exhaust.

I can assure you that all my colleagues are working along similar lines and I hope that the overall communication on information policy to be presented by the Commission before the summer will go a long way towards meeting your concerns.

I hope that satisfies the honourable Member and that we now find ourselves supping from the same bowl.

Everyone must now pull together to make it happen and achieve the objectives that we first set out for ourselves when we agreed the Doha Charter all those years ago.

We have managed to achieve a great deal of progress to date and we need all 25 countries to pull together to achieve success in the future.

To conclude this point, Mr Frerichs pointed out that, like the EESC, the EP’s aim was to bring Europe closer to its citizens; they therefore had to work together to achieve this aim.

The Parties that have decided not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol must act on the same terms as the other industrialized countries.