Translation of "Angesichts der knappen zeit" in English

Given the short amount of time he's the only engineer to do the job.

In view of the very tight deadlines, the Committee on Economic Affairs and its rapporteur have already made informal contact with the European Commission and with representatives of Council so as to ensure reciprocal approval of the amendments.

We take note of these comments, which are inevitable, furthermore, given the lack of time.

I will now go into slightly more detail while still being as brief as possible given the time constraints.

Yet, given the brief period that remains until the scheduled election, an announcement is required soon if a fair result is to be achieved and a recovery process launched to halt the country’s slide into chaos.

Mr Wilkinson, after having responded to the issues raised by the members, and given the lack of time to deal with all the amendments, proposed preparing a modified document on the basis of informal discussions with the members who had presented amendments.

Given time constrains, the detailed negotiations between Parliament, Council and Commission on the details of the proposals would normally start after the elections to the European Parliament.

I am delighted to say that I share earlier speakers' view that the auguries for the 1989 budget look good.

For this reason we, the Movimento sociale italiano, stress again, here also, the need for the reunification of Germany.

Two areas which have specifically interested me have been efforts to establish distribution and marketing networks to promote the circulation of European audiovisual productions and studies on venture capital for film producers.

The content relates in particular to training, exchange of experience and development of information materials to provide a better knowledge, a better compat­ibility and a gradual common path towards harmonization in the field of indirect taxation and therefore, in particular, VAT and excise duties, by means of coordination by the national tax authorities.

Firstly, I should like to welcome the President of the Court of Auditors, who has come to listen to our debates.

Now, in view of the short time remaining until Brexit, it is important, for instance, to rapidly implement the planned easing of rules on protection against dismissal for top bankers.

Lack of time forces me to select only a few of the more significant aspects.

Clearly, it would be very difficult in the limited time we have to address them one by one in a parliamentary discussion.

Mr President, to deal firstly with Mrs Hautala's question, I did not in fact give her a reply because, in view of the limited time available, I did not think that we needed to enter into a further discussion on the substance of the matter.

Given the short time available to me, I will have to confine myself to state aid policy and therefore to Mr Herzog's report, which we Social-Democrats fully support.

As the clock keeps ticking, I urge the Commissioner to work with them to find a development-oriented solution to EPAs which ultimately fits in with the needs of the ACP.

Mr Van Minnen, draftsman of the opinion. — (NL) Mr President, on behalf of the Committee on Social Affairs and Employment I should like to explain briefly the two aspects raised in the amendment tabled by us concerning social measures in conjunction with restructuring of the iron and steel industry.

Thirdly : the improvement of employment and working conditions in general.

Because of time constraints of the section meeting, the chair of the Sustainable Development Observatory announced that a brief overview of the EESC delegation to the Durban Climate Change conference would be handed in in writing.