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When they decided to put them on their own, without an apparent purpose, they were stating their place on earth; they felt supported just by looking at them, in the darkness of the unknown time.
Lorsqu'ils ont décidé de les placer seules, sans utilité apparente, ils affirmaient leur place sur la terre ; ils s'appuyaient sur elles juste en les regardant, dans l'obscurité du temps inconnu.
In the past, we repeatedly had the problem that, whilst on the one hand we were stating, from the European point of view, that we needed skilled immigrants, on the other hand we were still always very restrictive.
Dans le passé, nous étions sans cesse devant un dilemme : d'un côté nous déclarions que, du point de vue européen, nous avions besoin d'immigrants qualifiés, et de l'autre nous étions pourtant toujours très restrictifs.
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