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).

It is because the richest people are being favoured everywhere with state money that throughout Europe social protection is being reduced, public services are being abandoned, hospitals are being closed.
Precisamente porque en todos lados se favorece a los más ricos con dinero del Estado, en toda Europa se está reduciendo la protección social, se están abandonando los servicios públicos y cerrando hospitales.

The rapporteur, Mr Koch, to whom we express our thanks for the work which he has done on this, has already pointed out that basically everything could have been somewhat more advanced had it not been for the inactivity on the part of the CEN, which has been very dilatory in drawing up and adapting the directive.
El ponente, Sr. Koch, al que damos las gracias por el trabajo que ha llevado a cabo, ha aludido a que en el fondo todo podría estar más avanzado si no existiera esta demora de los CEN que son muy lentos en la elaboración y en la adaptación de la directiva.

Indeed when the plan was initially drawn up they said it would be restricted to cases of fraud against the EU budget.

De hecho, cuando se redactó el plan en un principio, se dijo que se limitaría a los casos de fraude contra el presupuesto de la UE.