Translation of "Vor der eigenen tür kehren" in English

We must therefore start the housecleaning here.

It is more important to assess our own behaviour.

He, then, the leader of the Italian opposition, should clean his own side of the street first.

We have enough to be ashamed of.

However, what do we see in this field?

After all, under the steel code we are no longer able to grant general subsidies but can do so only if the Council unanimous ly agrees to them in advance.

We all know that charity begins at home.

Without interfering in the politics of Spain, there is a saying in the United Kingdom which suggests that you put your own house in order first.

There would be a great deal to say, but what we really need is a greater political will on the part of our governments to put their own house in order and rid themselves of all the inhuman dregs that cause many citizens to turn their backs on politics.

In the same way I would ask us to look in our own backyards regarding the fate of the Romanies in Europe.

However, I wonder if we should not be taking a closer look at our own positions when we discuss racism.

Nevertheless, in this case I entirely agree with my colleague, friend and fellow countryman Mr Blokland that once in a while we need to put our own house in order here.

Here in Parliament too, we shall be able to set a good example on Thursday by cleaning out our own pigsty and finally switching to the procedure of only refunding expenses actually incurred.

The European Parliament has its own role to play here and it is also time now for us to hold up our hands and put our own house in order, just as if a report had been written on our working practices.

But rather than indulging ourselves in regular denunciations of the technocrats in Brussels, would it not be better to start in our own backyard?

This is why I am asking you to reject the proposed amendment to paragraph 16, but to preserve the initial wording, which calls on us to put our own house in order.

Ladies and gentlemen, before we presume to give lessons to the King of Morocco, let us start by putting our own house in order.

Clearly, our international negotiating position is weakened if we are unable to put our own house in order.

When we talk to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, we are all too inclined to assume a schoolmasterly pose and lecture them about things that we should do better to put right in our own backyard.

I do not want to go into detail, but people in glass houses should not throw stones.

I think the European Union is doing that and it must continue its efforts, but I also think it is sometimes important, in an assembly like the United Nations, to put one' s own house in order first.

The main front on which we need to fight is finance, and a Union which allows tax havens to flourish within its borders must put its own house in order.

Now that we are talking about biodiversity and, of course, sustainability too, I should not wish to miss this opportunity to say that we must also put our own house in order if we want to possess credibility in the eyes of the international community.

We have to clean up our own house without transferring our problems to those who are economically worse off than ourselves and who are desperate for any money they can get.

If the European Parliament wishes to punish war crimes, it should start by putting its own house in order.

Mr President, we will vote in favour of this report, because it contains a number of good intentions regarding equality between men and women, and it proposes that Parliament should put its own house in order.

Before they start preaching, however, ought not some of our governments, including the one in France, to first put their own houses in order?

Having said that, perhaps we ought first of all to put our own House in order and have country-of-origin marking within the EU, which we do not seem to have at the moment.