English-Dutch translation for "detour"

detour {noun} (also: diversion)

I wasn't able to keep up with the business, and I ended up with a 25-year detour.

Having traffic doing such things as taking detours or going elsewhere altogether is just not on.

That being the case, I for one would be only too happy to spare us the detour via the European Union.

My dream had been to convert solar energy at a very practical cost, but then I had this big detour.

It would be preferable if national governments channelled this money directly to their local governments without a European detour.

The prospect of being ordered to make very expensive detours is clearly an effective deterrent to the use of dangerous vessels.

Harmonisation is, moreover, intended to avoid the customary detours and the damage to the environment that results from them.

Moreover, the national political elite had to make a detour in Ambon in order to reach the civil governor's residence by warship.

European money is always spent with less thought than tax money which has not made a detour through Europe.

The European Economic Community was just a detour that we had to take because the Defence Community did not become a reality.

It would just create extra traffic in these countries, with too little benefit to the European environment, as traffic would have to make detours.

It is up to each Member State to decide upon support measures in the form of aid and investments, without making a detour via the EU budget.

For these trade routes between America and Asia, the Mediterranean provides a valuable centre for unloading goods for northern Europe, which means that carriers do not have to make detours.