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In this task, you are given a sentence in the English language and your task is to convert it into the Swedish language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).
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The red-green federal government has not exactly covered itself with glory in the debate on the End-of-life Vehicles Directive.
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Den rödgröna förbundsregeringen har inte precis skördat några större lagrar i debatten om direktivet för uttjänta fordon.


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The second principle in the Council' s common position is the retroactive element in the draft directive.
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Den andra principen i rådets gemensamma ståndpunkt är inslaget av retroaktivitet i direktivförslaget.


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This is worth a compliment although I regret, of course, that he did not expound it in his own mother tongue.
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Det är värt att gratulera, även om jag naturligtvis beklagar att han inte förklarat detta betänkande på sitt eget modersmål.