Translation of "loi au bras long " (French → English) :

Clearly, vested interests can have a long arm and try to influence regulations and supervision, including the behaviour of people like us.

The threats posed by the unamended directive are as follows. Firstly, that the software market will be monopolised by major players from outside Europe who are powerful in financial terms. This is very dangerous for the EU in the global environment, where everyone competes with everyone else.

Even if the actual military forces are withdrawn from the border areas, the long arm of the Syrian regime will still be able to sabotage democratic development.

Where miscreants and criminals operate across borders, so must the long arm of the law.

Her now suspended cooperation with UNMIK led to anonymous threats by the Serbs, because the Milosevic arm stretches far for the time being.

Most of the instruments analysed above have a unitary purpose: EURODAC seeks to enhance the functioning of the Dublin system; API to improve border control; the Swedish initiative to enhance criminal investigations and intelligence operations; the Naples II Convention to help prevent, detect, prosecute and punish customs fraud; CIS to assist in preventing, investigating and prosecuting serious violations of national laws by increasing the effectiveness of cooperation between national customs administrations; ECRIS, FIUs and AROs to streamline cross-border data sharing in particular areas; and the Prüm Decision, Data Retention Direc ...[+++]tive, TFTP and PNR to combat terrorism and serious crime.