In this task, you are given a sentence in Spanish and your task is to translate it into English. In translation, keep the numbers and capitalization (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and name).
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Question: (EN) Para empezar me gustaría decir algo acerca de las negociaciones entre la UE y los países ACP, que han acabado con éxito.

Answer: Let me start by saying something about the successfully concluded negotiations between the EU and ACP countries.


Question: Esto se debe a que hemos abandonado el cizallamiento.

Answer: This means that we move away from shredding.


Question: Tuvimos una gran apretura en lo que respecta al turno de palabra y, de repente, el pasado jueves tuvimos un espacio de tiempo de una hora a hora y media, en el que no figuraba materia alguna en el orden del día y tuvimos que esperar a la votación.

Answer:
Last Thursday speaking times were extremely tight and then suddenly we had between one and one-and-a-half hours when there was nothing on the agenda and we had to wait for the vote.