"ceguera" in English

A single incident will show how blind we are: the incident of customs union with Turkey.

The European Union cannot continue to turn a blind eye to this as if nothing were happening.

These resolutions are a hypocritical, blind and obscurantist chore.

This is all quite mind-boggling and shows unbelievable short-sightedness where the economic reality is concerned.

Being blind or partially sighted is a disability that makes it impossible to see the world through one's eyes.

Scarring during the healing process can cause this channel to close and the operation to fail with a rise in pressure.

The number of people blind from cataract is expected to rise due to the increase in life expectancy.

It is the same attitude of deliberately closing ones eyes to the facts which prevailed when it came to discussing enlargement.

The most astonishing thing about this whole business is that we constantly prove blind to the ways of this so-called partner.

I am always sceptical when anyone tells me that things are culturally incompatible, and this is perhaps due to family reasons.

Worse still, by moving in this direction, the Union’ s sense of belonging will fade and weaken, and may suffer irreversible damage.

blindness to sth

I feel it is clear that the reform of EU financing cannot be put off, and failure to heed such advice is evidence of political blinkeredness.

The Commission could not be more blind to the social reality in the Member States, or further removed from the citizens in their suffering.

You, who blame the Commission for devoting a mere nine lines to employment, seem to have quite a blind spot when it comes to the environment.

We deplore the political irresponsibility and shortsightedness of political and military leaders who put their own interests above the interests of their people.

Those of us who seriously believe in the careful exploitation of our natural resources, and who do not wish to see major climate changes, cannot sacrifice any of the options to blinkered ideology.