TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a sentence in English and your task is to translate it into Spanish. In translation, keep the numbers and capitalization (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and name).
PROBLEM: It goes without saying that that is not what the European Union' s competition policy is designed to achieve.

SOLUTION: Desde luego, ésta no puede ser la política de competencia de la Unión Europea.

PROBLEM: The two identical-sounding questions which are under discussion are, of course, underpinned by a mantra of the kind which, in recent years, has increasingly transformed politics into a type of ideology - fine-sounding, but pernicious.

SOLUTION: Las dos preguntas de igual tenor a debate están influidas por un mantra que estos años troca cada vez más la política en una especie de ideología -eufónica, pero perversa.

PROBLEM: Nevertheless, it raises some very basic questions.

SOLUTION:
Ahora bien, se plantean algunos interrogantes muy sencillos.