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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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Esta es mi primera respuesta al tema del techo máximo.
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That is my initial response to the threshold question.


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Señor Presidente de la Comisión, permítame decirle, en nombre de mi Grupo, que apoyamos firmemente el punto de partida, el núcleo del análisis y la estrategia que hoy presenta a la Asamblea; a saber, que ahora la apuesta es innegablemente política.
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Mr President of the Commission, may I say to you on behalf of my group that we very much support the point of departure, the core of the analysis and the strategy that you bring to this House today: that is that the stakes now are irrefutably political.


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No debemos abandonar la tradición que establecieron los programas anteriores con los países del Sur, en particular con los del área mediterránea.
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The tradition which has already been established by the previous programmes with the countries of the south, particularly the countries around the Mediterranean, must not be abandoned.