English-German translation for "windfall"

windfall

windfall (also: godsend, stroke of luck, fluke, bonanza)

windfall

windfall {noun} (also: windblow, windbreak, windbreakage, wind blast)

There are, therefore, windfall profits across Europe.

Secondly, there were the UMTS licences, which gave our finance ministers a windfall.

Nor have we managed to balance the budget, despite the huge windfall from UMTS licences in Germany.

The aid is primarily a windfall for incumbent regimes, and the poor majority does not benefit at all.

As Members of Parliament, we are extremely anxious about the way in which the Commission and Member States will handle this unexpected, but considerable windfall.

By some new taxes, if necessary, like the windfall tax which was so successfully applied in Britain recently and which financed an important campaign against unemployment.

When the allocations are reorganised, does the Commission intend to do something about these windfall profits that producers make from emissions trading?

It has also been passed on to the cost of nuclear and hydro-electric energy, and has produced windfall profits for producers in these sectors.

Tax competition becomes harmful when it encourages the market players to relocate their production activities purely to net a tax windfall.

There are quite a few electricity companies that have windfall profits because they included the cost of free allocations in electricity prices.

On the one hand, consumers are paying very high prices; on the other, windfall profits are being generated, in not only the oil sector, but also other energy sectors.

Here I should like to give a short answer regarding the concern expressed about power companies making windfall profits by pricing in the cost of allocations, although they receive them for free.

The same applies to rural development measures and other, more specific, economic or environmental programmes, in parallel with actions for using up workable timber, which represents about 50 % of the windfall.

Although I understand the intention of honourable Members to cross-subsidise renewable energy, I am afraid that it will be difficult to judge what ‘ windfall’ profits are, or what ‘ too much involvement in enterprise policy’ is.

If a Member State grants more aid than necessary as an incentive for industry to carry out a given innovation project, it crowds out private investment and may generate undue windfall profits.

The aid programmes notified by the French Government do, in fact, contain a general measure supporting the windfall transportation which may result in some of the timber being transported to countries outside the Union.

I do not begrudge anyone their profits, but we know perfectly well that what the oil firms are receiving are mainly windfall profits, resulting not from their own investments or efforts, but from the state of the market, that is to say, from increases in supply and demand.

Commissioner, I should like to see a full assessment of this directive, and I think that we should also, given this generous allocation and the windfall profits for electricity companies, ask whether it would not be preferable by far to switch to an auction system instead of the grandfathering system we have at the moment.

That is all the more reason why we must now press for European money also to be used in the way Europe requires, not squandered on consumption expenditure, not used to finance windfall gains when businesses move in, and not misused by state or semi-state authorities for other than structural policy purposes.

Even amended with vague promises of aid for various 'economic solidarity initiatives? which the population has had to take in order to survive, the resolution's principle plea is for Mercosur to remain a windfall for European companies whose exports have tripled in five years and which are the main partners of Mercosur.