Italian-English translations for tangente

tangentI would say to the Council that in future it is important that it works with Parliament rather than going off at a tangent and doing its own thing. Vorrei dire al Consiglio che sarebbe importante che operasse in collaborazione con il Parlamento, invece di partire per la tangente, andando per la sua strada. At the risk of going off on a tangent, I would like to ask about the role of the social partners, which seem conspicuous by their absence from this report. Correndo il rischio di procedere lungo una tangente, vorrei conoscere il ruolo delle parti sociali, che sembra evidente per la loro assenza da questa relazione. I believe we went off onto a tangent when we started talking about monkeys on unicycles at his retirement party.
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