Translation of "endless tape " (English → French) :

The answer is startlingly simple: endless EU regulation and red tape is smothering innovative businesses, leaving them with little choice but to relocate or close down.

At every level, excessive bureaucratic procedures and endless red tape accompany the cargo.

Having said that, I cannot fail to welcome the Katiforis and Pomés Ruiz reports, which clearly stress the way in which the liberalisation and flexible nature of the markets – especially the labour market – the dramatic reduction in tax pressure, a thorough reform of state pension systems and the gradual separation of state and economy – first and foremost through the privatisation of public companies – are all choices which cannot now be put off any longer if we want to avoid building a Europe which may well be united, but united by unemployment, marginalisation of the most vulnerable, in particular women and children, and by the endless red ...[+++]tape surrounding the social initiatives of the society, a Europe, that is, which will fail to create either growth or employment.

Finally, Quebec women will move far beyond the endless battles and constitutional red tape and will focus their energies on improving the quality of their life, that of their children, their husband and their fellow Quebecers.

Only one thing has stopped me and other prospectors in Canada, the irrational, short-sighted, muddle-headed, counterproductive, feeble-minded policies of the federal Government of Canada: outrageous taxes, conflicting rules, red tape so endless that it routinely takes three years to get environmental approval for a new mine in Canada, compared to six months in countries like Chile and elsewhere else in the world.