TASK DEFINITION: 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).
PROBLEM: El único mérito de esta directiva consiste en prever el futuro.

SOLUTION: The only merit of this directive is that it looks to the future.

PROBLEM: Sin embargo, señor Presidente de la Comisión, yo le doy toda la razón cuando afirma que en los próximos años será preciso dar muchos más pasos para fortalecer a la Unión Europea, ya que ésta no es aún lo bastante fuerte para poder culminar con éxito la gran tarea irrenunciable de la ampliación, ni tampoco para poder controlar algunos movimientos ya existentes o potenciales que, hablando sin rodeos, mantienen una actitud ambivalente y ambigua con respecto a los valores europeos de la democracia, la tolerancia y la integración de todos los habitantes de nuestro continente.

SOLUTION: Nonetheless, I agree with you, Mr President of the Commission, that many more steps to strengthen the European Union will be needed in the future because the European Union is not strong enough either to master the huge, inevitable task of enlargement or to control current and potential movements which, to put it mildly, have an ambivalent attitude towards European values of democracy and tolerance and the desire to integrate all the people on our continent.

PROBLEM: De hecho, una parte tan reducida, como nos dicen los juristas, del 20% o una quinta parte de los costes.

SOLUTION:
In fact perhaps as little, the lawyers tell us, as 20% or one-fifth of the cost.