"tomar cartas en el asunto" in English

Then Parliament decided to take action and not to wait for that promise to be kept.

The EU must take action on the issue of Belarus, we must not remain mere newspaper readers.

We should be tackling that ourselves and not looking to immigration as we do in other areas.

Let us therefore not ask for whom the bell tolls, let us repeat after Ernest Hemingway that it ‘ tolls for thee’, for Europe.

I urge the Commission to take up the case.

He has decided to take matters into his own hands.

It is up to the government to act.

I will do everything possible and more, employing all available resources to look into it as quickly as possible.

The European Union must act.

We must act on this.

We believe that the European Commission should step in through the adoption of clear penalties in the event of infringements.

to step in

to step in

I believe that the President should take action on this matter, and that we should send a delegation of observers to France to find out whether democratic principles are being violated.