Übersetzung für "Auf kosten des steuerzahlers" in Englisch

It should not involve stockpiling raw materials with taxpayers' money.

But she is playing Santa Claus at the taxpayers' expense.

Banks cannot be artificially kept in the market using taxpayer money.

He's still here, living very well at the expense of the American taxpayer.

What is the Commission's strategy to deal with the fact that 97% of illegal cigarettes are evading the legitimate tax net at the European taxpayer's expense and, subsequently, to the detriment of European security?

Now, Mr President, I hope you will allow an English-speaker to talk to you in French to suggest that the language of Molière might be enriched by a new and typically European concept, that of 'berthelisme ', which means having a fictitious job paid for out of European taxpayers' money.

Farm subsidies ensure that inefficient farmers are bankrolled at the expense of the European taxpayer and, at the same time, of course, ensure that the prices that we as consumers pay in shops and supermarkets for agricultural produce remain disproportionately high.

On the pretext of fighting racism - which may exist as a marginal phenomenon, but has not reached sociologically or politically relevant proportions in any Member State - the taxpayer is having to foot the bill for a centre which is merely designed to gag freedom of expression, along the lines of those that exist already in various Member States.

It is becoming so easy to make a good living out of crime at the taxpayers' expense that when we talk about the level playing field, in so many areas of activity involving public subsidies you could say that the level playing field is now crooked.

European Union policy would therefore have to be directed at the creation of overcapacity at the taxpayer's expense.

For those countries, the shortage of funding is solved to a certain extent; for us, the shortage of fish. It means that European ships can use those waters for fishing at the expense of the European taxpayer who pays for three quarters of the compensation paid to the less wealthy countries involved.

On the motion tabled by our philanthropic missionaries regarding free postal services for the visually impaired, I personally do not see why wealthy people with impaired vision should send their mail free of charge at the taxpayer's expense.

We have to make sure that no unfair advantage is granted to any company at the expense of Hungarian taxpayers."

And to think that the law says that eight useless guys like you have to be put in a nice comfortable prison and fed at the taxpayer's expense.

Furthermore, to avoid free riding on taxpayers' money, the beneficiary needs to make a significant own contribution to the costs of restructuring.

What we are talking about is, quite clearly, changing job training to fit the crisis and to meet the demands of employers.

I am not trying to place responsibility for this on the Community authorities, it is the Belgian authorities that are to blame. Ineptitude, dithering, hasty decisions, slow decisions, lack of consultation with the inhabitants, all have helped to create havoc in Brussels.

And you want a total stranger to take him or the State of Illinois to be responsible for him on the taxpayers' dime?

Does that mean bussing unemployed around the EU looking for work - at taxpayers' expense?

We can't educate foreigners at the taxpayer's expense.

We consider the introduction of production quotas — like the milk quota — acceptable only if all other means of limiting production fail.

For three or four years running, Greece has sought special annual aid for the destruction or distillation of old stocks of dried grapes and dried figs, in other words two products which the Community is desperately short of, and for which considerable sums of foreign exchange are spent in order to import them from third countries.

You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I'd left him behind on an Aleutian island and had sent a destroyer back to find him—- at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars—- his Scotch soul was furious.

As no markets can be found for these products, they are being stored at taxpayers' expense.

Statisticians have to be sensible about their role in a democracy and we should certainly not forget that statistics are produced at public expense.

We have, also, 750 000 tonnes of beef in intervention which is rising at the rate of 15 000 to 20 000 tonnes a week.

As no markets can be found for these products, they are being stored at taxpayers' expense, and we have run short of storage space.