Adding the words I have just mentioned seems downright ridiculous.
Si nous voulons un jour être pris au sérieux en tant qu'assemblée législative, nous devons éviter de dépasser les bornes.
This is quite simply going too far if we ever want to be taken seriously as a legislative assembly.
Le rapport Seppänen sur les industries forestières et autres industries connexes emprunte une bonne direction et se propose de dépasser les bornes étroites d' une compétitivité commerciale.
The Seppänen report on forest-based and related industries is a step in the right direction, endeavouring as it does to overcome the confines of commercial competitiveness and create wider and deeper prospects for European forests.