Translation of "Heikle lage" in English

The reports put Pakistan’s political leaders in an awkward position.

The king's position is delicate. We don't want to make it impossible.

Well, you put me at a very awkward position.

Another troubling aspect was the fact that Brendan didn't really understand the precariousness of his own position.

You put me in an awkward position, Jack.

I'm about to put you in a very awkward position.

You have to understand how delicate of a situation this is.

Your very existence puts Semak in a precarious position.

Likewise, the delicate situation in Brcko I think may be resolved by a similar compromise.

We must remember Nepal's fairly precarious geographical situation between India, Pakistan and China.

All this has left you in a very difficult and delicate position, Madam President.

In this regard, he spoke of the delicate situation between the European institutions and EU citizens.

This precarious situation cannot continue, however, without jeopardizing the Community's international relations.

This monitor is supposed to oversee the situation in Zimbabwe and yet he has actually established contacts with the Zimbabwean Government and used information which he received from Mr Maguwu, and thus put Mr Maguwu in an awkward position.

As well as the necessary technical rules on food safety and animal welfare, it would be desirable if other improved measures capable of preventing the current situation developing into something more serious could be implemented, for example, the release of cereal stocks stored in intervention, in order to make it possible to minimise the issue of price volatility and prevent the delicate situation that we have been witnessing from getting worse.

In handling this crisis situation the presidency has been inspired by three considerations. The first is solidarity with the British government, which is facing a delicate situation likewise affecting every other Member State of the Union and which presents complex political, financial and veterinary implications.

In conclusion, Mr President, although Slovenia is a small country, it occupies a very important and sensitive geographical position, between the north and south and the east and west of Europe.

Something which I think is often overlooked is the close link between the situation in Bosnia and the situation in Eastern Slavonia. Because any worsening of the situation in Eastern Slavonia, due to new mass movements of refugees, may seriously affect the fragile situation in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

On this latter point, I would like to state that Asia's fragile economic recovery is complicated by the region's delicate political situation.

EU self-sufficiency in plant proteins has fallen to 23%, placing the Community in a position of great vulnerability.

Furthermore, it is clear that we cannot separate the delicate situation in Palestine and Israel from the international context and the dreadful consequences of the absurd way the United States and some of its European allies are dealing with terrorism at international level, an approach which I believe is providing more fuel for the fanaticism of Al Qaeda every day.

Budget cuts in education, rising costs of higher education and the difficult social situation of a high percentage of families and young people are preventing Portugal from rapidly improving the higher education of its population, resulting in the worst indices in the European Union.

It is therefore not about creating barriers: it is about ensuring that the rules of the game are the same for everyone and accepting that the unfair competition by China, through imposing restrictions on access to the market and through extremely serious, permanent and systematic infringements of intellectual and industrial property rights, or the lack of controls on imports, or the question of exchange rate differences, which obviously not only affect textiles but also many other spheres of our commercial relationship, and other measures on the part of China are placing the industry in an extremely serious and very delicate situation.

Above all, however, it is in the political sphere that the situation arising as a result of the dreadful events in the Middle East means at least that Euro-Mediterranean relations are exceedingly delicate, if not that the whole process is in danger.