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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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. (SV) La principal tarea de la Conferencia Intergubernamental que se aproxima es reformar la UE frente a la incorporación de nuevos países miembros.
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- (SV) The most important task of the approaching Intergovernmental Conference is to reform the EU before the accession of the new Member States.


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En primer lugar, como ha resaltado mi colega el Sr. Bowis, es retroactiva y errónea de principio.
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First of all, as my colleague Mr Bowis has pointed out, it is retrospective and that is wrong in principle.


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Una vez recordados los puntos de acuerdo fundamentales entre las propuestas de la Comisión y su Parlamento, y una vez recalcado mi gran interés en escuchar las diferentes intervenciones, me gustaría responder a algunas críticas, a algunas sugerencias que se han hecho, disculpándome de antemano por no poder citar personalmente a cada uno de los que han intervenido.
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Having mentioned the fundamental points of agreement between the Commission' s proposals and Parliament and, having stressed my great interest in hearing the various contributions, I should like to answer a few of the criticisms and a few of the suggestions which have been made, with apologies if I cannot attribute each of the questions to the speakers by name.