Урок 11

(своеобразие культур

стран европейского союза)

Словарь

accession accession of new members cultural diversity determination to be determined to do smth. to diminish stocks of fish the Commonwealth benefit n. legal а. ant. illegal

прирост, прибавление, пополнение пополнение новыми членами своеобразие, несходство культур решимость быть полным решимости сде­лать что-л. уменьшить запасы рыбы (Британское) Содружество Наций преимущество, привилегия, благо законный, дозволенный законом; легальный

Домашнее задание к уроку 11

Выполните упражнение I.

Упражнения

Упражнение I. Переведите тексты 1 и 2 письменно:

Текст 1

Southward Swing

PARIS – "Europe: the reasons for failure" ran the headline above an article this week in the Le Figaro by a former president of France, Valery Giscard d’Estaing. Next week his successor will tell the European Parliament in Strasbourg how to "succeed". As France begins its six-month tenure of the European Union’s presidency, he will call – unamazingly – for growth and jobs; for more progress towards Europe’s collective security; for more protection for its culture; and for a start to the spadework for next year’s intergovernmental conference about where the Union stands. For his talk of "failure" would be deeply unpresidential.

Текст 2

Yet Mr. Giscard d’Estairlg’s use of the F-word was to the point. As the Union swells – with the accession on January 1st of Sweden, Finland and Austria, it now has 15 members and 370m citizens – so it becomes looser, more like the giant free-trade zone favoured by the British, less like the supranational federation advocated by the Germans.

Mr. Giscard d’Estaing, Euro-federalist to his manicured finger-tips, has a recipe. Let there be a big Europe embracing those whose real interest is a single, free market for goods, people, capital and services; and let there be within it a "small Europe", for those who want true supernationalism, with a single currency and the political union that will flow from that economic and monetary union. "The role of the Franco-Germanic alliance", he writes, "will be to offer a point of permanent contact between these two groups".

Упражнение II. Дайте русские эквиваленты:

Swell, accession to a union, loose, benefit, supranational federation, single currency, income per head, Commonwealth, legal service, illegal nets, determination, cultural diversity, a total catch of fish, diminish stocks of fish^*.

********* * ** ****

– My man, is this public water?

– Yes.

– Then it won’t be a crime if I land a fish?

– No, it will be a miracle.

Упражнение III. Переведите тексты 3, 4, 5, 6 с листа по абзацам (прочтите абзац про себя и переведите):

Текст 3

The most naked appeal by France to domestic interests, however, is the "affirmation of Europe’s cultural diversity". Forget the promotion of plurilinguisme and this becomes code for France’s determination to protect its audio-visual industry against what it sees as an engulfing tide of American films and music. The tide has yet to be turned back. This week France sent two ministers to Brussels to seek a friendly proposal on the audio-visual issue from the European Commission. Unhappily for France, the commission’s legal service ruled that the issue must await the attention of a new commission, due to take office later this month.

Текст 4

Big Fishers, Small Nets, Smaller Stocks

BRUSSELS – "We may not be big in anything else," said one Spanish diplomat this week, "but in fish^* we are a super-power." True enough: the Spaniards have the European Union’s biggest fishing fleet, account for a fifth of its total catch and eat more sea-food that anybody except the Japanese and the Koreans. Why, then, have their EU partners been pressing them to accept the unacceptable in a fishing dispute which began last month when Canada’s Navy seized a Spanish trawler fishing for Greenland halibut just outside Canada’s 200-mile (320-kilometre) limit?

The simple answer is that superpowers tend to attract criti­cism – in this case for using illegal nets, catching tiddlers and gobbling up the world’s diminishing stocks of fish. Perhaps that is why the European Commission has been urging Spain to accept a deal – to be monitored by satellites and onboard inspectors – that would cut its catch of Greenland halibut by four-fifths. Britain, displaying Commonwealth rather than European solidari­ty, said that it would veto any EU sanctions against Canada – a position that Spain’s prime minister, Felipe Gonzalez, called "a serious mistake".

halibut – палтус,

tiddler – колюшка (рыба)

Текст 5

Germany’s EU Burden

By Brandon Mitchener and Tom Buerkle

Coming just one month before Germany assumes the rotating six-month presidency of the European Union, the debate in the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, underscored the country’s growing ambi­valence about its traditional role as "paymaster" for the community.

"It is right that we, as the strongest country economically, should pay the most because we derive the most benefit," the Chancellor told the Bundestag. "But it is also true that the future financing concept in the community must be much more strongly oriented towards income per head in the individual countries".

"Our goal is that other member states with comparable incomes per head must take on more financial responsibility than they had in the past," he said.

German enthusiasm for Europe while still strong, has suffered dramatically from the signing of the European Union treaty which effectively writes the Deutsche mark out of existence.

A former Belgian prime minister who heads the Christian-Democratic bloc in Europe, said the Chancellor’s renewed commitment to a single European currency was significant, given the skepticism of the Bundesbank and many citizens about abandoning the Deutsche mark.

He said both the Germans and the French, who succeed Germany in the Union's presidency next year, "know they have to lie low with ambitious programs until the dust settles."

International Herald Tribune

Текст 6

Status Quo for Bank of England

By Eric Ipsen

LONDON – The bank of England has hit a dead end in its attempts to gain more independence, and that state of affairs is likely to continue for the next few years, the bank’s governor, Eddie George, said Wednesday.

On European monetary union, Mr. George insisted that it was some time off. He said that until the problem of structural unemployment had been tackled in a number of European countries, it would be wrong to move to a single currency.