Translation of "Wenn es konkret wird" in English

When it comes to concrete measures, however, the messages we hear are very different.

As soon as things become concrete, she stumbles as if on unfamiliar ground.

It is unacceptable that in principle, the European Union is fighting for a reduction in emissions and then, in practice, reaches the conclusion that, because the necessary policies have not been implemented, many Member States are already slipping alarmingly in relation to the limit values set in Kyoto for 2010.

For whenever it comes to practicalities, when it comes to implementing things, the Commission at least recoils.

Where is the support for freedom, human rights and the fight against social injustice in specific cases such as Lampedusa, where hundreds of refugees are arriving from North Africa every day?

We shall have to prepare ourselves for long and difficult negotiations, because if it actually happens in the next five, six, or seven years, the strength of the willingness and enthusiasm for accession of the people of Eastern Europe will sometimes be tested.

It is often ironic that the countries that most engage in rhetoric about European cooperation are those that often fail to produce the action.

Even though we had a debate on the general principles of the Budget at our last plenary part-session, it would certainly be fitting for them also to be present when we get down to brass tacks - and at Parliament's first reading we really do get down to brass tacks.

When it comes down to it, the large debtors, the people who are involved in major financial operations and who end up owing billions to thousands of defenceless people, those large debtors do not usually have their accounts in a bank in Belgium, Brussels or Strasbourg, or even in London. They usually have them in tax havens.

We shall have to prepare ourselves for long and difficult negotiations, because if it actually happens in the next five, six, or seven years, the strength of the willingness and enthusiasm for accession of the people of Eastern Europe will sometimes be tested.

They are made not as a value judgment but out of respect for the Bureau competence, and include a promise that we will return to these questions at the reading of the budget in October if we do not consider that they have been adequately covered by that time.

The Commission regards this trend as a normal consequence of Greece's accession to a huge market which benefits from a better regional distribution of agricultural products, which has also brought benefits to the consumer.

Strictly speaking, this has nothing to do with the Commission's regulation.

The example of snow machines highlights just how difficult these debates are in specific settings.

And, when it does come up with something more tangible - 'to enable innovative enterprises to be set up' - this announces assistance not for the victims of unemployment but for those responsible for it.

We can see eye to eye with Mr Solana at the abstract level, but God forbid that this should become a little more concrete.

Indeed, I wonder how the thousands upon thousands of men, women and children who have been maimed and murdered by the South African authorities would respond to the call from the Tories to moderate that demand.