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: La Unión Europea -y al mismo tiempo las dos grandes corrientes políticas, socialdemócratas y cristianodemócratas- han contraído al respecto una grave responsabilidad, pues con la observación dogmática de las estrictas políticas presupuestarias de la Unión Económica y Monetaria, con el desmantelamiento el estado del bienestar, con la deificación de una competencia incontrolada, ha empujado a amplios sectores sociales a la marginalidad, y ha brindado a demagogos de extrema derecha como Haider la posibilidad de reclutar partidarios para su proyecto neonazi.

Answer: The European Union bears a large measure of responsibility - and along with it the two dominant political movements, the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats - because, by their dogmatic adherence to the harsh financial policies of EMU, their dislocation of the welfare state and their deification of uncontrolled competition, they have pushed broad strata of society to the limits and made it possible for right-wing extremists of the Haider type to recruit support for their neo-Nazi ways.


Question: ¿Podría explicar la Comisión la razón de la larga gestación de este proyecto que, en principio, debería haberse concretado ya en 1998?

Answer: Can the Commission account for the lengthy gestation of this draft, which should in theory have emerged in its final form in 1998?


Question: En el informe del Sr. Andersson se exige convergencia social, es decir, que el sistema, cada vez más, se unifique, tanto dentro como a través de la Unión.

Answer:
Mr Andersson' s report demands social convergence, that is to say that systems should be increasingly standardised within and throughout the EU.