Sentence examples for eu under pressure from inspiring English sources

Glenys Kinnock Labour, House of Lords The death toll of 400 people in the Mediterranean is unacceptable and an indictment of the attitudes of the European governments towards people fleeing from regions where violence and human rights abuses are rife (EU under pressure over migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean, 15 April).

Italians want their government to put the rest of the EU under pressure.

An estimated 100,000 people in the Ukrainian capital Kiev are protesting against the government's move to delay an association deal with the EU under pressure from Russia.

France's highly controversial deportations of Roma (Gypsies) have put the EU under pressure to tackle a problem that has been festering for years.

The concern relates to the prospect of EU countries, under pressure from rising healthcare costs, handing over major parts of healthcare provision to the private sector.

The protest started a fortnight ago when news broke that Yanukovych was abandoning negotiations on the EU treaty under pressure from the Kremlin.

The former work and pension secretary and – though this is easy to forget – former Tory leader told the Sun that David Cameron dropped one of his key demands in Britain's EU renegotiation under pressure from Germany.

Its author, Gustavo Piga, a professor and former adviser to the Italian Treasury, claims that he has uncovered a strange transaction made by an unnamed European country—one that unmistakably resembles Italy.The deal, an interest-rate and currency swap, dates from 1997, when EU countries were under pressure to meet the Maastricht treaty's budget-deficit targets of 3%.

To many, the chancellor's real message is this: as good Europeans, it is your duty to overtax your businesses.Taxation is not the only area in which the new EU members are under pressure to adopt policies that will blunt their competitiveness.

Never mind what the British newspapers said Mr Blair had to offer back some of the rebate, and not only because, as holder of the rotating EU presidency, he was under pressure to compromise.

"It is in theory possible that our arrangements with EU countries would come under pressure in the event of a leave vote; however, given the intricate levels of economic and social interdependence between the UK and EU member states, it may not be in anyone's interests to unwind current arrangements in the short term," says McPhail.