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).

. (FR) Como diputado europeo procedente de una región fronteriza, recibo con gran interés esta tercera iniciativa Interreg.
As an MEP from a border region, I welcome this third INTERREG initiative with great interest.

No es difícil imaginarse que la industria automovilística de algunos países, por ejemplo la alemana, ha trabajado intensamente, mediante grupos de presión, en torno a la aprobación de esta directiva.
It is easy to see that the car industry in certain countries, for example in Germany, went in for some pretty tough lobbying before the present directive was adopted.

Esto significa que en el terreno de la gestión de la cantidad es preciso hacer un gran esfuerzo para velar por que los flujos río abajo y río arriba sea una solución adecuada.

This means that in terms of quantity management too, we need to put in considerable effort to ensure that life upstream and downstream is not affected by it.