Translation of "Wettbewerbsfähigkeit verlieren" in English

At the same time, users became less competitive due to high raw material costs.

Instead, these sectors would lose competitiveness as well.

If we lose competitiveness in the shipyards where we are going to end?

We want flexibility married with social protection but we do not want to lose competitiveness.

While industries are losing competitiveness on the whole, Korea has yet to explore any clear promising industries.

There remains the outstanding difficulty about firms and sectors whose costs may dramatically increase to the point where their competitive position could be destroyed.

This will, however, be a difficult task in view of the existing differences amongst the 15 Member States and because we ought not to increase prices. That might mean losing competitiveness and employment, which is the exact opposite of what we are aiming at.

If the European energy-consuming industries that are currently making great efforts to save energy are exempted, our competitive edge will be lost.

These countries are not only forced to absorb the cost of fuel, but will now have to do the same with the additional costs of tolls, thereby losing competitiveness.

There were continual complaints from employers about the excessively high social contributions, and the reduction in our competitive capacity.

Just think of the cost for public finances or the cost resulting from the loss of competitiveness for businesses used to state aid, at a time in which it is being reduced or is disappearing.

The first consequence will be the inevitable loss of the very idea of the Community seaman and the competitiveness of our fleet.

Consumers will lose out, employees will lose out, Europe will lose competitive strength and growth.

In the face of new challenges the European Union has to find ways of tackling them quickly and flexibly in order not to lose in the dynamism and competitiveness stakes.

Sustainable economic development, market liberalisation and the well-being of EU citizens are thus our objectives, and they must not therefore cause our own products to become less competitive on our own territory, in favour of goods that fall far short of our quality and safety standards.

It is a market instrument, because those Member States are losing competitiveness, and their citizens and companies are suffering the consequences of the loss of competitiveness, which can no longer by definition be restored through modifications in exchange rates, because these Member States have adopted the single currency.

We will be faced with an increasing number of accidents, with greater congestion, with more environmental damage and, ultimately, with higher costs for European industry as a whole, which, to the extent that it depends on reliable and profitable supply chains, will become less competitive.

But, also, when we speak about harmonisation of taxation or harmonisation of the minimum wage, this obviously militates against creating equality, because countries that at present have lower wages and a high level of social protection could be made uncompetitive, with business and companies being attracted elsewhere and jobs lost.

My feeling is, however, that at the same time we cannot forget the need to moderate the development of wages, not to lose competitiveness and, in the case of the Eurozone, to analyse very thoroughly the reasons for, and alternatives to, the divergent development of unit labour costs between Member States of the Eurozone that can create significant problems in terms of the functioning of countries that are losing competitiveness by this means.

It is becoming clear that the reform does not result in a series of economically uncompetitive companies.

This matters, especially for labor-intensive activities (ranging from toy manufacturing to data-entry services), whether by affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises (which account for more than half of China’s exports) or by local firms, which are losing competitiveness in international markets.

At this rate, the risk is high that our country's competitive position will drop even further.

If China doesn’t allow the renminbi to strengthen, other emerging markets will remain wary of letting their currencies appreciate too much and lose competitiveness.

As a result, most emerging-market economies are now similarly worried about currency appreciation, lest they lose competitiveness relative to China, and are intervening aggressively and/or imposing capital controls to stem upward exchange-rate pressure.

The latter is likely to distort competition more significantly as the aid beneficiary’s competitors become less able to compete [11].

The latter is likely to distort competition more significantly as the aid beneficiary’s competitors become less able to compete.

Otherwise, with exchange rates demonstrating the required constancy, the other countries would have risked becoming less competitive.

He felt that the proposal clearly favoured some sectors and countries, which feared a loss of competitiveness in the absence of stringent harmonization.

The White Paper on Growth, Competitiveness, Employment stressed that the EU would lose competitiveness without "a priori" and "a posteriori" coordination of R & D policies.