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 is particularly important to address those serious issues concerning urban areas, employment in rural areas, aid to agricultural regions and equal development opportunities for the islands of the European Union and for the Greek islands which, of course, comprise half of the islands of the Union, as stipulated in Article 158 of the Treaty.

SOLUTION: Especial relevancia adquiere el tratamiento de los agudizados problemas de las ciudades, el mantenimiento del empleo rural, el apoyo a las zonas agrícolas y, claro está, la garantía de iguales oportunidades de desarrollo para las islas de la Unión Europea, y para las islas griegas, por supuesto, que son la mitad de las islas de la Unión, tal y como exactamente se contempla en el artículo 158 del Tratado.

PROBLEM: When we are compelled literally to humiliate theatre groups, young musicians, pioneering activities in the arts, writers, to humiliate them and send them packing with a slap on the back and thirty rejection slips in such a way that they begin to perceive Europe as something foreign, something opposed, contrary and hostile to any effort towards cultural creativity - an area in which the European Union should make its presence felt because our mission is not just the euro, not just enlargement, nor geostrategic expedients, but also to encourage culture to flower in this affair of European Unification - then this is indeed a sorry way to end.

SOLUTION: Nos vemos obligados literalmente a degradar a jóvenes músicos, a grupos de teatro, iniciativas artísticas vanguardistas, escritores; degradarlos, aceptarlos una vez y rechazarlos treinta, de manera que lleguen a sentir a Europa extraña a ellos, opuesta, contraria y hostil al esfuerzo creativo, a un esfuerzo cultural en el que la Unión Europea ha de estar presente. Porque nuestra senda no es sólo la senda del euro, no es sólo la ampliación y los intereses geoestratégicos; nuestra senda es darle un horizonte cultural a la causa de la construcción europea.

PROBLEM: Mr President, it feels quite strange to be standing here again today, as I have been doing at regular intervals for almost ten years, and all because of an accident caused by human hand and by a lack of human competence, and not by force majeure.

SOLUTION:
Señor Presidente, casi parece increíble que volvamos a encontrarnos reunidos aquí, tal como se ha repetido regularmente desde hace casi diez años, a causa de una desgracia causada, no por una fuerza superior, sino por la mano del hombre y debido a la falta de discernimiento humana.