À cet égard, nous butons également sur un problème.
In this regard, we are also coming up against a problem.
Nous le voulons mais nous ne le faisons pas, parce que nous butons sans cesse sur des budgets qui sont trop frileux, dans la recherche notamment.
We want it but we are not doing it because we are constantly coming up against overly timid budgets, notably when it comes to research.
Simplement, depuis que Jacques Delors a proposé à l'Union ce grand projet de réseaux transfrontaliers et d'infrastructures européennes, nous butons sur le même problème : le financement.
Since he proposed that the EU undertake this grand project of trans-border networks and European infrastructures, we are, quite simply, coming up against the same problem, namely that of funding.
Malheureusement, nous les femmes, nous butons sur un " plafond de verre" même au sein des institutions européennes.
Unfortunately, we women come up against a glass ceiling within the EU' s institutions, too.
Il a été remarqué, et le président Santer l'a ouvertement reconnu, que nous butons très souvent sur nos propres limitations bureaucratiques lorsqu'il est question de mettre nos programmes en uvre.
It has been said here, and President Santer has frankly admitted, that in implementing these programmes we are often held up by our own red tape.
Nous butons évidement sur tout emprunt de fonds - il s'agit tout simplement d'un procès-verbal, comme l'accord de Blair House, que le représentant de la Commission connaît très bien.
Obviously, no funds are being made available; it is simply a matter of an agreed minute, like with the Blair House agreement, which the Commission representative is very familiar with.
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