"empanar" in English

I urge you to stop clouding the issue and to stop playing word games.

The resolution was intended to tarnish my country’s honour, and is already being used for that purpose.

The resolution was intended to tarnish my country ’ s honour, and is already being used for that purpose.

In fact I would go further and say that the EU Convention runs the risk of blurring the enlargement process.

failures which have tarnished his reputation

Why should Italy earn itself a bad reputation, from a humanitarian point of view, without any benefit to itself, but only to its neighbours?

I am disappointed about that, and that is at the same time, in fact, the response to all the comments already made.

This does not alter the fact that the immense majority of journeys take place safely, effectively and in a way which respects the environment.

The debate about the new head of the European Central Bank must not detract from the achievements to date in bringing about a new European single currency.

Madam President, I am afraid I must disturb the show of harmony somewhat and point out that the Commission has done the European union a disservice with the Bolkestein Directive.

That fact should not be allowed to detract from the good results being obtained with NAFTA, such as increased investment and industrial modernization - in short, economic awakening.

The EU bureaucratic machine is vast, and not only does it pose a threat to efficiency but it especially threatens to tarnish the Union’s reputation in the eyes of the public.

Secondly, we should avoid trying to stretch the political credibility of the Union too far in taking on ambitions that the institutions themselves are incapable of handling at the present time.