Traduction de «arrivé bien malgré » (Français → Anglais) :

When I speak of immigration, I deliberately call it a problem: there is no denying that the so-called fringe countries of the European Union suffer most from veritable assaults by immigrants, who sometimes arrive with good intentions, admittedly, but are none the less illegal.

This is therefore a crucial moment for the fisheries sector in the area, and for having made it possible for us to reach this moment, I must fully acknowledge the work of Commissioner Joe Borg and Director-General Jörgen Holmquist — who have been personally involved in moving this dossier forward — their services, with whom I have worked on a daily basis, and of course my colleagues in the Committee on Fisheries, who have been wise and generous enough to give up many of their local sectors’ demands, sometimes despite strong pressure, in order not to deprive the whole Mediterranean sector of common management rules.

Despite these calls and the fact that timely and correct transposition is a legal obligation, Member States regularly do not transpose internal market Directives correctly by the deadlines they themselves have agreed, most Member States do not even meet the interim transposition targets set by the European Council, and many such Directives have still not been transposed into national law in all Member States long after the deadline for transposition has passed.

That said, the difficulty we face with compensation, of which the member is well aware, is that we had a number of studies done. They were put to some of the stakeholder groups and it was not possible, despite very constructive discussion on all parts, to come up with a compensation system which was, we should say, completely acceptable.

But as you know only too well, we're dealing with sophisticated machinery, and when they bring out these SORs and these RFPs, certainly maybe things extrapolate themselves a little and instead of 50 pages we get 500 pages.

It has not been an easy task to arrive at agreement on the Erasmus programme despite the constant support of the Heads of State and government and the European Parliament since, although all the Member States welcomed the objectives of the Erasmus programme presented by the Commission, some of them had expressed serious reservations as regards the total appropriation envisaged and the legal basis for the Commission's proposals.