Срочно перевод 42. The most laudable aim of the Maastricht treaty was to knock the Union's machinery into shape to cope with the club's expected new members from Eastern Europe. Yet on most counts the treaty seems likely to prove disappointing. 43. A group of experts seemed to have solved a dispute about putting workers on boards that has for 25 years blocked a proposed European company statute. 44. Spanish authorities have confiscated copies of last month's edition of « Working Youth». No reason for the action was given, but it was believed to have resulted from an article discussing sackings in a Madrid motor factory. 45. France had what was believed to be its coldest Christmas for 83 years, and in the Jura Mountains the temperature dropped to minus 28 degrees Centigrade.