Translation of "Ein frommer wunsch" in English

This will remain a pious hope until common asylum procedures are adopted.

But that is wishful thinking at the moment.

However, this suggestion must not just be wishful thinking.

Unfortunately, at the moment, this is merely a pious desire.

That, too, is a pipedream.

But it is important that this should not be just a statement of intent.

If the productive processes do not need the same labour levels as a decade ago, then there has to be worksharing.

I also ask your approval of this.

According to Maurizio Zollo, “this gap is due not to a lack of willingness or of communication between the parties, but to a lack of understanding.”

My second reflection is this.

Probably just wishful thinking, but you can try it even at least.

Of course, this hope was nothing more than a wish.

But in reality, even this is a pipe dream.

This, however, is a vain hope.

Seeing into the future: For many of us, that remains a pious wish.

I think such a compilation will remain a pious wish for the time being.

Under these conditions, talk about an employment strategy is nothing but pious hopes.

It was actually just wishful thinking when she wrote it several days before November 9.

But your good wish remains your personal affair, a subjective " innocent desire".

The revision of the cadastre has been a constant pious wish of all liberals, and even bureaucrats, throughout Western Europe.

This is a pipe dream.

My wish to bring everything into the light of day remained a mere wish.

With the current instruments, and by persisting with the budgetary sovereignty of the Member States, I fear that this consolidation is a pipe dream, with all the consequences that that entails.

A lot is going to be said at the biodiversity conference about the need to put in place the correct measures, but if all we end up with is a pious declaration, we will achieve very little.

To think that Europe can solve the problem of CO2 emissions into the environment all by itself is a mere pipe dream.