The West of Ireland package

07:46 Dec 4, 2014 

"Hors de tout contexte, les mots ont un caractère ouvert: chacun d‘entre eux renvoie à un concept ou à une liste de concepts, c‘est sa signification ou ses significations potentielles. Dans un texte ou un discours, une de ses significations s‘actualise et elle est interprétée par le récepteur pour construire du sens". Donc, quelle que soit la raison pour laquelle vous posez une question sur Proz, essayez de donner le maximum de contexte pour que nous ayons une chance de vous proposer la bonne solution. Merci pour les points !

07:24 Dec 4, 2014 

Hello,
No I am not trying to do my homework using ProZ I am trying to find help on a sentence I am unable to understand. This is the reason why I put very little informations about the context to not feel like getting the work done by someone else.
The theme of the text I have to translate is social science which is the reason why I put that under 'social science'.
Here is the whole sentence ''The Mediterranean area, or more specifically some parts of the countries bordering it, provide some of the biggest problems of development in the European Community, and at various times in the past there have been programmes proposed which were something on the lines of Ireland package.''
Thanks in advance for taking the time to help me.
The other question I asked about the shadow assembly is not part of the same text.

23:32 Dec 3, 2014 

this “package” is quite dated, and a pretty good illustration of the perils of ignoring the context.
Reminds me of why on some exams I passed (years ago) you were allowed any and all books you could manage to cram on your desk – the catch being that you still needed to be able to find the relevant information quickly enough.

plus ça change plus c'est pareil - nowadays with the Net you have the equivalent of few cubic kilometers of books on your desk and still you need to be able to find the relevant information quickly enough.

12:24 Dec 2, 2014 

à plusieurs reprises ces 10 dernières années (pas seulement sur Proz). S'agirait-il en effet d'un exercice ?

12:11 Dec 2, 2014 

I have the nagging feeling that it's about a political package, especially if it's part of the same text where there is a mention of a "shadow assembly", but this Asker is not helping anyone, himself included, by the way he is presenting his questions.

11:59 Dec 2, 2014 

le contexte aurait été essentiel... je retrouve le même texte en anglais>italien (Kudoz février 2010) :

"... there have been programmes proposed which were something on the lines of the West of Ireland package."

11:54 Dec 2, 2014 

if your "The West of Ireland package" is about tourism why putting Social Sciences/geography as context? Tourism is not a social science but a business.

Is this part of the same text as in your other question about "shadow assembly"? Can you give the whole sentence where "The West of Ireland package" is used?

BTW you are not trying to do your homework using PROZ?