Translation of "Schärfere sanktionen" in English

Putin has tried coercion – and been met with increasingly tough sanctions.

The civilian population will suffer, but Kim won't be deterred by tougher sanctions....

Tougher sanctions would also have to be implemented so that the agreement really appears binding.

Die Presse wants tougher sanctions:

Meeting in Luxembourg, the EU's foreign ministers have endorsed a new set of sanctions against Iran, the toughest to date.

Even Chancellor Merkel has, to the dismay of Siemens, Linde, and RWE, called for tougher sanctions.

They also include stronger sanctions and penalties for firms which fail to comply with the rules.

Third, it is wrong to believe that the German government is blocking tougher sanctions.

Just a couple of days ago, the French Prime Minister and the German Chancellor even agreed to change the treaty to bring in tougher sanctions against countries that threaten the euro's stability.

It penalises the users of tools such as botnets for committing the offences, and introduces a higher level of sanctions for committing the offences.

I feel that there should be harsher penalties for medicine counterfeiters, and the control mechanism must operate effectively across the whole of the EU, including every link in the medicine supply chain.

I am with my fellow Members who have stressed the need for this register to be obligatory, for it to incorporate the Council, and for it to include harsher penalties when irregular behaviour is detected.

I believe that in this sense, the European External Action Service and the other European institutions need to impose more severe sanctions in order to ensure compliance with the international agreements to which Uganda is a signatory.

We therefore need better control of how funds are spent and more stringent sanctions for erroneous, unlawful and fraudulent use.

It is not enough, therefore, to make declarations of good intentions about protecting jobs and workers' and social rights if, afterwards, they do not put an end to the Stability and Growth Pact and the Euro Pact, replacing them with a genuine Progress and Social Development Pact, but prefer to impose broader demands and tougher sanctions on countries and peoples that have fallen victim to neoliberal policies.

Is it therefore a correct response to require that still more businesses be covered by the directive and to demand tougher sanctions against those companies that do not implement the directive?

I believe that Mr Lax has drafted what is, on the whole, an excellent report, but although this report introduces a number of additional procedures and deadlines that can be enforced by diplomatic means, it does not oblige the Council or the Commission to impose more stringent sanctions.

With more realistic expectations, it achieved results: the New START arms control treaty, tougher sanctions on Iran, cooperation on transportation to and from Afghanistan, and Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization.

Pushing for tougher sanctions will lead to a rift with Europe, while pushing Russia further toward China economically.

These changes are also designed to establish fairer competition conditions for maritime transport operators by reducing unfair competition from substandard vessels, which will be the subject of stricter penalties, and by granting the operators of quality vessels the benefit of less rigorous inspections.

While the authorities have made some progress in improving tax compliance and reducing the proportion of undeclared economic activity, notably by improving risk assessment and tightening sanctions against fraudulent behaviour, challenges in the fight against tax fraud and evasion remain.

While corporations like Siemens deliberately withdraw from Iran and call for tougher sanctions in order to have legal security for the annulation of their old contracts, Austrian companies such as Voestalpine continue their business as usual.

The European Council tightened sanctions against Russia on Wednesday because Moscow has so far failed to meet the EU's demands regarding Ukraine.

While the German Government on the one hand time and again calls upon German companies to voluntarily abstain from business in Iran and chancellor Angela Merkel 2008 at the Israeli parliament spoke out for "further stricter sanctions" against the Iranian regime, the Government on the other hand supports business in Iran's energy sector through the cover of the so called Hermes guarantees.

Neither tougher sanctions nor military attacks can prevent Iran’s access to nuclear weapons with anything like the same level of certainty as an agreement based on the key parameters of Lausanne.

Vladimir Putin should be jubilant over new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's opposition to tougher sanctions for Russia, the conservative daily Lidové noviny observes and speculates on the reasons for Athens' stance: "Greece could be trying to secure a better starting position for itself in the negotiations over debt relief.

The US can afford far tougher sanctions, because it's far less dependent on economic cooperation with Russia and Russian energy supplies.