English-Portuguese translations for small-minded

mesquinhoUm é a imagem distorcida do OLAF que alguns colegas deputados apresentam com base no seu mesquinho interesse próprio. One is the distorted image of OLAF which some fellow Members are painting on the basis of their own small-minded self-interest. Será que somos assim tão mesquinhos relativamente a esta colaboração, ao ponto de pensar que aquilo que constitui o maior projecto de paz da nossa era não deve ter custos? Are those of us in this cooperative venture really so small-minded that we believe that the greatest peace project of our lifetime must not cost anything? Se tivessem ficado encalhados num mosaico de interesses nacionais mesquinhos, a Europa teria sido um palco de jogos de poder, violentos ou não, conforme o caso. Had they remained stuck in a mosaic of small-minded, national interests, then Europe would have remained a platform for power games, violent or not, as the case may be.

Selfish, petty; constrained in thought, limited in scope of consideration, not mindful of the big picture

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