Translation of "Transnationale unternehmen" in English

The Works Councils directive, on the other hand, applies only to multi-national enterprises.

It funds trans-national business and innovation support services.

As the result of globalization, now there are so many cross-national businesses.

Transnational corporations and banks have effected a complete globalization of production.

This enables transnational corporations to sue states at international arbitration courts.

Canadian, European and American transnationals have been pursuing this appropriation strategy.

Community support is also available for transnational programmes and exchanges between the business sector on the one hand and the specialised language training establishments or training bodies on the other.

Community support is also available for transnational programmes between the business sector on the one hand and the specialised language vocational training establishments or vocational training bodies on the other.

Big conglomerates and hierarchically organised Transnational Companies are elements of the past whose power should be decreased.

In return, US and French transnational companies conserve a privileged access to African prime materials.

Exporters, offshore investors, and transnational companies can hold 100% equity stake in a Nigerian company.

The Development Committee suggested a country-by-country reporting regime so that transnational corporations have to report back on a country-by-country basis.

Commissioner, will you agree that in that respect, it has been really a dismal failure and that EU trade agreements have mainly benefited EU-based transnational corporations who use their superior resources to batter small local producers in many poorer countries, causing serious dislocation, including loss of local employment and environmental destruction?

Large economic groups and transnational companies are, as always, expected to see a profit worth millions of euros with this Free Trade Agreement.

A social summit should agree, among other things, that those companies laying off employees should not distribute dividends, that transnational companies must negotiate not only with national trade unions but also with European trade unions, that there cannot be business profitability without social solidarity.

There is a need to implement a new binding financial agreement that will force transnational companies to declare the profits they make and the taxes they pay, on a country by country basis, in order to ensure transparency in respect of what they pay in each of the countries in which they operate.

Free world trade has not just brought the globalization of markets, transport and communications, resulting in considerable problems of security that ultimately will have to be dealt with as another new topic. It has also resulted in an ever-increasing number of transnational enterprises dividing up the world between them, as it were, with territorial and price cartels, deals, oligopolistic and monopolistic positions.

Opening up the management of European ports to transnationals, as appears to be happening, will devalue labour relations and collective bargaining and increase the risks of insecurity in the port system, which will subsequently call into question maritime safety.

A patent system which does not respect the Convention on Biodiversity risks developing into a system in which large transnational companies can take control of the genetic wealth of these countries which they must then buy back in various forms.

Is it not, though, the neo-liberalisation of the Ivorian economy, the reduced prices for raw materials and the consequent impoverishment of the people, the way in which multinational companies openly set Ivorian neo-colonial factions against each other, that have enabled speeches about ‘’ to find an audience, and facilitated ?

I would add that a favourable economic environment has since the early 1990s attracted numerous transnational companies to Central and Eastern Europe.

When large transnational companies are encouraged to invest, through foreign direct investment, in developing countries, they should also be empowered to make offset investments.

This relationship must no longer be based on neo-colonialist ambitions or paternalistic views aimed at recovering the ground lost when the African peoples gained their national independence - after being conquered in the second half of the 20th century - and promoting interference, the military presence of the EU's major powers, and the control and exploitation of natural resources by transnationals.

We need to ask why the transnational corporation involved denies any continuing liability, either for the state of the Bhopal site or the victims' health.

New enterprise does not only mean the growth of small companies. It also means the ability to establish new cross-border companies in Europe that can be ‘global champions’.

The second proposal would consist of promoting a legal framework imposing constraints on transnational companies to encourage them to fulfil their environmental, social and economic responsibilities.

That decision, however, represents a great blow to the public postal services, particularly with the abolition of the reserved areas, setting in motion a process to dismantle them and subsequently hand them over to profit-driven transnationals, and at public expense to boot, jeopardising the rights of the nation and of workers in the sector.

Even more important, the information revolution is creating virtual communities and networks that cut across national borders, and transnational corporations and non-governmental actors - terrorists included - will play larger roles.

Land grabbing is the contentious issue of large-scale land acquisitions; the buying or leasing of large pieces of land in developing countries by domestic and transnational companies, governments, and individuals