"poco político" in English

In this Europe, there is too much backroom politics and too little public-political debate.

This debate is a bit like the political equivalent of Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

This is what must be done to bring that hope into what looks a little like political talk.

Otherwise there will be little point to any political dialogue.

a politician with very little appeal among young people

Basically, three things that are within our reach, provided we ourselves and each of our governments show a degree of political courage.

I completely disagree that the G20 summit was a lost opportunity but I must challenge all of us to show some political realism.

This is why I say to you, Commissioner, and to the Commission, show a bit more political courage, because so far there has been absolutely none!

But now I am not so optimistic because time unfortunately depends on the electoral and political calendar and there is little we can do about it.

The Council has just reached a political agreement on making it a criminal offence to participate in a criminal organization in the Member States of the EU.

They went against the spirit of the Treaties in concluding what I believe to be an ill-considered political agreement without consulting the European Parliament.

In my part of Europe, we lived until relatively recently under a political system where no alternatives were allowed and where no parliamentary opposition therefore existed.

We spend a lot of time in this Parliament talking about technical and legal measures, but very little time on the political effort the European Union requires in order to combat terrorism.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think that we have a double problem here: a psychiatric problem - and obviously there we can do very little - and a political problem.