Britain has helped to shape aid for Africa, the debate on climate change, European enlargement and, last week, negotiations to restart world trade talks.

在对于非洲的援助，气候变化问题的争论，欧盟扩大和上周的重启世界贸易谈判的协商中，英国都起到了一定的作用。

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But, as a European Commission official explains off the record, such shifts were fully expected: offshoring "was the whole idea of enlargement".

然而，正如一位欧盟官员所言，这种转变完全在意料之中，流通“正是欧盟扩员的最大意义”。

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On his right was Miroslav Lajcak, the European Union's senior point man on the Balkans, and to his right was Stefan Fule, the EU's enlargement commissioner.

坐在他右边的是欧盟巴尔干地区高级专员—米罗斯拉夫•拉贾克，再往右边是欧盟扩大委员会专员—史蒂芬•富勒。

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Formed by his father Andreas Papandreou whose feisty anti-Americanism placed him on the radical edge of European politics, Greece's Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement, better known as Pasok, has turned into an advocate of worthy causes like European Union enlargement and the mending of fences with Balkan neighbours, including Turkey.

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The European commissioner for enlargement, Olli Rehn, is a strong ally.

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Whereas Mr Blair championed causes within the European Union such as enlargement and economic reform, Mr Brown says only that it should be more outward-looking.

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