9. Translate into Russian:

1) Before embarking on projects like DMU (a defence and military union), the European Union's big job is to bring in new members from the East. That will mean, among other things, more majority voting in the council.

2) A spokesman for the British Foreign Office said the meeting «provided useful opportunity for consultations» before departing for trips abroad.

3) The Belgian Prime Minister offered his resignation to the King in Brussels yesterday after failing to reconcile a cabinet split over tough new economic measures.

4) After spending most of the post-war era close to the nest, European women — and especially mothers — are taking jobs in record numbers.

5) On arriving at London Airport from the UN Security Council meeting, the Foreign Secretary said that he thought a practical and effective resolution would emerge as a result of his talks with African Commonwealth delegates.

6) The national governments will have to stop behaving like pigs at a trough, not just in haggling over cash but also informing and guiding the EU Commission itself.

7) The President's « kitchen cabinet» of wealthy advisers, which gave him his start in politics and has played a crucial role in shaping his ad ministration, has disbanded after a controversy over fund raising.

8) He insisted that France was as interested as anyone in bringing the budget and agricultural spending in the EU under control.

9) The US President is able to increase support for his policy by explaining it energetically.

10) The constitution of France qualifies many of the president's powers by stipulating that the government should «determine and con duct national policy» and by making the prime minister «responsible for national defence».

11) By failing to agree upon any substantial reform of the Common agricultural policy (CAP), the heads of government have guaranteed that little progress will be made in any world trade talks. They have also made it unlikely that they will keep their own promise of capping spending at the current level in real terms.

12) Only by bringing tough measures to control spending, including the runaway cost of farm subsidies, can the EU hope to create the conditions to accept members from Eastern and Central Europe.

13) The IMF keeps itself in business by winkling money out of rich nations such as the US and handling it out to poorer brethren, who usually are poor because of gross economic mismanagement.

14) By not losing sight of the long-term objectives they made them selves masters and not servants or victims of economic forces operating in the world.

15) There is still time to let every new MP know what the British people want. It can be done by sending resolutions from trade unions and other organizations, and by sending deputations to MPs.

16) They expect that the Prime Minister will try to suppress criticism by pleading that matters are at a delicate stage.

17) « Time» journalism began by being deeply interested in people, as individuals who were making history. We tried to make our readers see and hear and even smell these people as part of a better understanding of their ideas — or lack of them.

18) Meanwhile the people and their representatives did what they were told without even the privilege of being informed of the decisions taken by their leaders.

19) European fund-management companies are obsessed with growing their asset bases by entering new markets or raising their profiles in ones where they already do business.

20) The Fed chairman's carefully worded comments about the stock market drew few questions from committee members. They were preoccupied with trying to get him to take sides in the looming battle between the President and Congressional Republicans over Social Security, the federal budget surplus and tax cuts.

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