Sentences with phrase «european neighbours»

The most sought - after holiday home hotspots are the UK's southern European neighbours — Spain, Portugal and France.

Unlike most of our European neighbours anyone may trade as an antiques dealer, only limited registration schemes exist in Yorkshire and Kent, proving hard to administer and enforce and of little value in combating such frauds.

The winds blow harder and therefore the economics of wind power in the UK will be better than those of our European neighbours», said Richard Ford of the BWEA.

Already it is causing serious problems by dumping excess power from wind onto it's central European neighbours and they are getting cranky about it, as it is threatening to cause blackouts:

For this reason, works by artists such as Yinka Shonibare or Ed Atkins, which deal with the colonial past of France and Great Britain, comment on the history of our western European neighbours as much as on ours.

Quickly though, the dense hang presents us with abstract works from the 1930s and»40s by Alberto Magnelli, Atanasio Soldati, Carla Badiali, and others who have clearly absorbed the lessons of their European neighbours.

There will be an incentive to export our art as never before and what we have to offer in terms of a vast, inherited file of cultural achievement is far greater than many of our similarly sized European neighbours.

Despite denying the Euro and staying proud with the Pound, we are a part of the Old Continent and thus blessed with a huge variety of surfing destinations that our European neighbours offer.

Croatia's cuisine is influenced by its European neighbours - and particularly Italy - but the country is steadily gaining a reputation for the quality of its gastronomy and wines.

Bordered by Slovakia, Austria, Germany and Poland it's perhaps unsurprising that much of the Czech Republic's culture and architecture has been historically influenced by immigrants from its European neighbours.

With picturesque villages scattering the coastline, a unique cuisine and a culture influenced by its European neighbours, as well as mainland Spain, Ibiza guarantees any visitor a holiday to remember.

This is where we seem to be behind our European neighbours such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.

Brits were somewhat more conservative in their outlook than their European neighbours.

Richard Horton, Editor - in - Chief of The Lancet, commented: «These figures show the significant health burden that children bear in the UK compared with their European neighbours.

Reports of thefts of radioactive materials are becoming increasingly frequent in what used to be the Soviet Union and its East European neighbours.

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Britain's relationship with its European neighbours has often been fraught when it comes to political and economic union.

Britain falls behind many of its European neighbours, while countries in Far East occupy the top five spots.

... The consequence of the xenophobic attitudes towards our European neighbours that have been allowed to develop has been to leave Britain weak.

«The problem will become worse when we «take back control» and lose the institutional cooperation of our European neighbours that has done so much to block cross-border crime.

He wants the UK to work fully with our European neighbours in defence as a bargaining chip for getting them to join the fight in Afghanistan.

Our European neighbours plunged headlong into the euro without thinking through the consequences.

The UK lags behind its European neighbours in that so far, there has not been a single prosecution.

Our determination to defend the stability, security and prosperity of our European neighbours and friends remains steadfast.

We want to see close and cooperative relationships with our European neighbours, outside the EU based on our values of internationalism, solidarity and equality, as well as mutual benefit and fair trade.

We must challenge that working with our European neighbours to stop those who would play one country off against another or those who hide their wealth offshore to avoid paying their dues.

Those wanting us to leave the EU also naively imagine a warm glowing relationship will emerge between ourselves and our European neighbours following Brexit.

The global refugee crisis and there are 65 million refugees across the world that crisis is a challenge, much of which is on the borders of Europe and that challenge can be met by co-ordinating with our European neighbours, both to crack down on the people smugglers who put men, women and children to sea in unseaworthy vessels.

The government should rather look to our European neighbours, all of whom permit the majority of prisoners to vote.

We also need British rail companies to operate as efficiently as those of our European neighbours.

Corbyn has illuminated a pathway to a transformative Labour government and the salvaging of the UK's relationship with our European neighbours.

In contrast, people saw Labour as «the best bet for those wanting to keep closer ties with our European neighbours», the researchers found, with the party winning remain votes from not just the Conservatives but also the more obviously pro-EU Liberal Democrats and Greens.

it maintains an important element of identification with our European neighbours, a relationship of clear importance to Scotland;

«Our European neighbours plunged headlong into the euro without thinking through the consequences,» Osborne railed.

«It is unbelievable that within a week of triggering article 50 there are Conservatives already discussing potential wars with our European neighbours.

According to WSTA, the rate of alcohol taxation in the UK was now «so out of step with our European neighbours» that visitors to the London Olympics would face paying 50 per cent more for an average bottle of wine (# 4.89) than if the Games were being held in Paris (# 3.26) and triple what they would pay in Madrid (# 1.52).

Mrs May must work with our European neighbours to continue with a policy of united action, because pollution, climate change and wildlife do not respect national borders.

She highlighted correspondence from a constituent who said he could no longer support a party that seems «hellbent on completely destroying, our relationship with our mainland European neighbours, on driving the NHS onto the rocks (or into the private sector?)

Cultural proof that we belong firmly in the EU: it seems here, from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's delicate hold on her Bratwurst, that our European neighbours eat their hotdogs just like we drink our tea — with the little finger sticking out.

Director Ian McKenzie said: «He can not satisfy both on this issue and swaying from pillar to post from day to day won't convince anyone he is serious about seeking popular consent for our relationship with our European neighbours, whatever that is to be.»

EEA membership would give a clear message that, in leaving the EU, the UK does not wish to cut itself off from association with its European neighbours — an important foreign policy statement and, perhaps, an element of reassurance to Scotland.

However, while our stock market has fallen like others, there has been one striking difference from many of our European neighbours.

[9] The Journal.ie National Breastfeeding Week: Irish breastfeeding rates below European neighbours, Oct 1, 2012.

Switzerland's European neighbours are already starting to back themselves for the World Cup next year.

They were at Euro 2012 in their role as co-hosts with Eastern European neighbours Poland.

Many of our Asian and European neighbours utilise all parts of the animal for a variety of delicacies, including sheep eyeball skewers, barbequed beef diaphragms and crumbed lamb brains.

Campaigners from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service demanded a price cut after they claimed that British women pay up to five times more than their European neighbours.

Italy is Libya's nearest European neighbour and the most important oil trade partner, receiving 30 % of the 1.3 million barrels a day exported under the Gaddafi regime in 2010.

Not exact matches

Both neighbours will be desperate to secure the three points to ignite their flagging European aspirations.

He eventually made his debut for Barca in their 4 - 1 cup victory over neighbours Espanyol on January 6, and has gone on to make 16 La Liga outings for the reigning European champions, as well as a further three outings in the Champions League.