Translation of "dans le chaudron surchauffé " (French → English) :

These countries have only just regained their national identities, through historic steps, from the Soviet Union’s great red melting pot, and thus their citizens want to be Europeans in a way that does not endanger their national identity or their newly created democratic institutions.

Policies which would lead to a reduction of its current account surplus would increase China’s control of its economy and contain risks of overheating, and at the same time meet China’s shared responsibility to ensure a stable and balanced world economy.

There too, it is obvious that not only the mountain areas, but also valleys, which have the effect of kettles and in which environmental pollution is massively intensified, and even the cities, which are already subject to strain, are all vulnerable to possible increases in the effect of traffic.

Why, then, is there such an outcry, within this old hotbed of federalism, the European Parliament, against a Treaty which boldly displays the predominant federalist philosophy?

In a way both England and France are guilty: it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

The mandate underlined the key messages the Commission wished to highlight in the negotiations, notably the need to avoid overheating in the Irish economy in view of the very ambitious spending programmes contained in the NDP; the welcome emphasis on "balanced regional development" through the regional programmes and the proposed national spatial strategy; the need to tackle bottlenecks throughout the economy, notably in infrastructure and the labour market, through investment but also by way of horizontal measures to improve the performance of the sectors and finally the priority attached by the Commission to environmental questions a ...[+++]nd in particular the protection of Natura 2000 sites.