English-Swedish translation for "windfall"

windfall {noun}

windfall {noun}

There are, therefore, windfall profits across Europe.

How will the Commission prevent windfall gains?

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.

Finally, it is essential that we slow down the logging of standing wood, in order to give priority to the purchase of windfalls.

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

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.

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.

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

Windfalls have not been spent on consumption as in past years; they have also been used to reduce debt and for investments.

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.

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.

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.

And then, looking at the agricultural markets - the honourable Member behind me raised the question of meat just now - the CAP will be yielding fewer windfalls than it has done in the past.

Algeria has now come into a large windfall profit from the high oil revenues it is enjoying and is therefore in a position to rearm Polisario.

This amendment will prevent the possibility of windfalls, the risk of fraud and the abuse of a measure which is not meant to turn young fishermen away from their chosen profession.

And, in particular in the light of the ‘windfall profits’ achieved by European oil companies, what initiatives will the Commission take to ensure that those companies assume their due responsibility?