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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Question: Por desgracia algunos plazos se han incumplido.

Answer: Unfortunately, a number of deadlines have been exceeded.

Question: Y mas aun hoy, cuando Europa debe dotarse de una nueva politica de derechos de autor y afines, urge -lo acaban de subrayar en varias oportunidades- definir y volver a definir lo que es un autor.

Answer: In addition, at a time when Europe faces the task of defining a new policy on copyright and neighbouring rights, there is an urgent need - as has just been pointed out several times - to define and redefine what exactly an author is.

Question: Por esta causa deberiamos disponer de un poco mas de tiempo el jueves.

Answer:
That ought to mean that we have more time on Thursday.