Tout aurait néanmoins pu aller un peu plus vite.
Nevertheless, it would have been good if everything could have proceeded a little faster than it has in the event.
Un grand nombre d’entre nous souhaitaient un système plus harmonisé et nous aurions pu aller un peu plus loin.
There was a good number of us that wanted a more harmonised system, and we could have gone a little further than this.
En ce qui me concerne, tout cela aurait pu aller un peu plus vite, et il est regrettable qu'il ait rencontré tellement d'obstacles.
As far as I am concerned, it could all have gone a bit faster, and it is unfortunate that he was so seriously held back.
Je regrette que le gouvernement britannique ait coupé l'herbe sous le pied de la présidence finlandaise, sans quoi nous aurions pu aller un peu plus loin.
I regret that the British Government pulled the rug from under the feet of the Finnish Presidency at one point, otherwise we might have achieved a little more.
Mais je voudrais me joindre à la déception exprimée par certains de mes collègues: nous aurions pu aller un peu plus loin et nous montrer un peu plus ambitieux.
But I would echo colleagues' disappointment that we could have gone a bit further and been a bit more ambitious, but let us remember that the health check was only ever about a health check: the fundamental reform will come later and that is what we need to focus on today.
Je pense que l’on aurait pu aller un peu plus loin dans ce domaine, mais la situation ne s’y est guère prêtée, en raison de considérations non pas techniques, mais politiques, au niveau du Conseil.
I think this is an area in which we could have gone rather further, but there was no great momentum to do so – not because of technical considerations, but because of political considerations at Council level.
J’ai cependant eu l’impression, Monsieur Jarzembowski, que nous aurions pu aller un peu plus loin pendant la conciliation et que nous aurions peut-être dû consacrer tout notre temps à rédiger un meilleur texte.
Despite this, Mr Jarzembowski, I have a feeling that we could have gone a little further during conciliation, and that we perhaps should have spent all of our time creating a better text on that score too.
Nous devrions, cependant, nous garder de toute suffisance et toujours viser haut, raison pour laquelle je me permettrai de souligner trois points sur lesquels je pense que nous aurions pu aller un peu plus loin.
We should guard against complacency, however, and always aim high, so I would venture to point out three issues in relation to which I believe we could have gone a little further.
Certes, prouver la discrimination a presque toujours été l'affaire de la personne lésée, mais si nous avions pu aller un peu plus loin, et peut-être intégrer à la directive l'article 4.1 c qui faisait partie de la proposition de la Commission, c'eût été, évidemment, une bonne chose.
It has almost always been necessary for the discriminated person to prove unfair treatment, but of course it would have been better if we could have gone just a little further and perhaps, as we heard earlier, included Article 4.1c which was present in the Commission's proposal.
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