You have us at a disadvantage here.

3.9 The European Union is being left behind.

Sitting of Wednesday, 13 February 1980

Would this increase the EU's deficit?

1.10.17 The EU should not to be left behind.

3.11 The European Union is being left behind.

This issue has been sidelined in the major debate about the future.

I feel that they are pursuing a line of research that is not going to be fruitful at all.

Europe is lagging behind the rest of the world and threatens to miss opportunities.

This means that the elected representatives will not obtain any real insight into the legislative proceedings, but will be left in the background or on the sidelines.

The proposal will put the EU behind in the game and would also be very difficult to control.

Could we, despite this, assume that fundamental research in Europe will not lag behind?

Nonetheless, the goal of further integration of the labour market within the Fifteen must not slip into the background.

As the disruptive forces gain traction, existing business models face difficult adaptation challenges, and regulators begin to fall behind.

For others, globalization is a curse under which poor countries are bound to fall further and further behind.

This was a reflection of the fact that it was now very hard to imagine that the DNVP could come to power without the NSDAP.

As it happened, the protagonists of the first view were sidelined and the proponents of democratization prevailed.

The short sighted political response to the anxieties of those falling behind was to ease their access to credit.

The US should focus on helping to tailor the education and skills of the people being left behind to the available jobs.

In this world everyone is striving for perfection, and yet there are many who are falling behind from our relentless rat race for existence.

Now then, the European Union does, in effect, seem to be a little behind, but we can make up time by using this vessel.

4.2 Without these directives, Europe would, in certain areas, fall behind the United States and other world players.

4.5 This comparison shows that the EU is falling behind instead of leading global climate change efforts.

This problem should be given first priority in all decisions, whether made by the Community institutions or by the government of the Member States.

The Council, however, simply dismissed without serious consideration what we were seeking to do.

This gap cannot be closed overnight, but countries that do nothing to overcome it could very well fall behind.

Trailing by three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Twins had their best chance to get back into the game.

But universities have always been hard pressed to justify their existence in such immediate cost benefit terms.

They find themselves confronted by low wage competition from people who have similar skills and ambitions, and are consequently likely to lose ground from enlargement.

2.3.1 It also stresses the need to address the concerns of those who feel they are losing out from globalisation .

As Harvard professors Claudia Golden and Larry Katz put it, in the race between technology and education, education is falling behind.

2.5 Currently, US owned firms are dominating the digital economy, while Europe has largely lost out in the development of digital technologies.

4.2 With regard to the objective of ensuring widespread internet coverage by 2020, there are infrastructure problems and some areas, including some islands, are lagging behind.

1.5 The EESC supports a reinforced OMC, so that employment, social protection and social inclusion are not sidelined in the current crisis.

3.6 Currently, US owned firms are dominating the process of digitalisation, while Europe has almost completely lost out in the development of digital technologies.

I turn first to a Member of this Parliament, Mr Ghergo, who, speaking in the name of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, convincingly described our problems to the Committee on Budgets and managed to persuade this committee to agree to all our proposals but two, which he just mentioned.

Second, most of the economic gains in the US in recent years have gone to the rich, while the middle class has fallen behind in relative terms.

All Member States need to make greater efforts and especially those that have made slow progress in relation to both targets Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, France, Luxembourg and Austria.

Mr Gerokostopoulos (PPE), draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Youth, Culture, Education, Information and Sport. (GR) Mr President, despite the brevity of her speech, Mrs Nielsen has presented the motion for a resolution and the amend ments of the Committee on Social Affairs and Employment, concerning the Commission's communication to the Council on technical and vocational training in the new technologies, with great clarity.

Natural and economic difficulties place upland farming at a local disadvantage which can only be offset to a very limited extent.

Natural and economic difficulties place upland farming at a local disadvantage which can only be offset to a very limited extent.

Over time, the persistence of these conditions undermined the competitiveness of domestic industry, impeding sales of Brazilian products not only internationally, but also in the robust and growing internal market.

MADRID As the dramatic events unfolding across the Middle East capture global attention, the numerous challenges facing Israel are being largely overlooked.

The applicant States ought not merely to tag along behind but, instead, share the EU' s ambition of becoming a world leader in the communications field.

Secondly, Mr Schmidt offers a false picture of the Swedish economy. He maintains that, in terms of trade, Sweden has been slipping behind because we have not introduced the euro.