Translation of "Ethnische spannungen" in English

Ethnic tensions still exist.

There were also inter-ethnic tensions under blacks and coolies.

Serious ethnic and religious tensions have also occurred in other parts of Indonesia.

Ethnic tensions regularly lead to loss of life and the displacement of tens of thousands of people every year.

New sources of violent conflict have emerged from racial and ethnic tensions.

Industrial decline only helps fuel ethnic tensions.

Unfortunately, national and ethnic tensions still are present in Europe.

The province is home to ethnic tensions between Han and Mongolians, which have sometimes resulted in protests.

The other deals with mass migrations and political, social, ethnic and religious tensions.

Conflicts, ethnic tensions, recurrent droughts and floods are all causes of hunger and poverty in Chad.

Sometimes you may have ethnic or sectarian tensions but this do not make them problem.

There were already ethnic tensions before the war, but they have still remained following the war.

We know that wars and armed conflicts, ethnic tensions, systematic human rights violations like refusal to allow people to practise their religion, natural disasters, and poverty resulting from the lack of adequate economic and democratic structures are the main causes of migration flows.

They also fear the social, ethnic and political tensions which may result, particularly in central Africa, in the short or long term.

Mr President, I welcome this debate, the more so as European history shows that in times of crisis, ethnic tensions can inflame otherwise stable situations.

Individual countries will continue to promote internal stability and help find both socio-economic solutions and solutions to ethnic tensions.

The fact that no ethnic tensions have arisen in Estonia and other Baltic states despite the large Russian-speaking minority and despite the tragic role the Soviet Union played in their history must be ascribed to the level-headed policy of the Estonian Governments and their willingness to follow proposals made by their European partners along the road to the EU.

It entails a strengthening of political dialogue inasmuch as we have to support our Pacific partners in their efforts to overcome ethnic tensions, as in Fiji, or to promote reconciliation after a civil war, as in the Solomon Islands or in Timor Leste.

Its political status has still not been clarified, and there are continuing ethnic tensions between the Serb minority and the Albanian majority.

There are ethnic tensions in some countries, there are unsatisfactory refugee return arrangements, there is the battle against trafficking in human beings, which is also unsatisfactory, and there is corruption.

With the exception of Slovenia, all of these states are characterised by instability, ethnic tensions, migration issues, high levels of corruption and unemployment, a weak state and limited influence of elected parliaments.

Let us not allow ethnic tensions to be vented on the minorities still living there.

It is therefore understandable that difficulties should arise, and neither is it all that difficult to let the tensions between population groups escalate.

This is a clear case of ethnic tensions having got out of hand, as is evident in various places in Indonesia: Timor, Aceh, the Moluccas and Irian Jaya.

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

The split also revealed underlying ethnic tensions between Zulu and Xhosa speakers, represented by Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki respectively, as they jostled for political predominance.

Simultaneously, continuing ethnic tensions between Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, and Han Chinese threatened to tear the region apart along local and tribal lines.