Translation of "On their own merits" in German

These include the uniform treatment of applicant countries and progress based on their own merits.

They also confirm that we judge candidates on their own merits.

Candidate countries will continue to be judged solely on their own merits.

I believe everyone should be judged on their own merits.

Let our ideas live or die on their own merits.

All such application for inter- university transfer will be treated on their own merits.

Candidacies will continue to be assessed on their own merits, in accordance with the principle of differentiation.

They should each be studied and judged on their own terrible merits.

However, the point has been made - and well made - by a number of colleagues that it would be a better system if each of the Commissioners were elected on their own merits rather than en bloc.

It is clear that some Member States are taking advantage of the fact that we only have a single vote on the whole Commission in order to ease in candidates who might not succeed on their own merits.

It also underscores that, in the convergence assessment, Member States are examined on the basis of their own performance, on their own merits and with full respect to the principle of equal treatment.

Regarding enlargement, I wish to say that we are very satisfied that the Council has now finally agreed that each candidate country must be assessed on their own merits.

This Decision is without prejudice to the possibility that individual aid measures taken under the scheme may subsequently be considered compatible on their own merits, in whole or in part, by Commission decision,

Consequently, the adjustments were made on their own merits and on the basis of the information and evidence collected during the investigation.

These agreements need to be concluded in a balanced fashion and, naturally, as quickly as possible, depending on their own merits.

Even excellent individuals do not succeed on their own merits, however, if their background is felt to be less than favourable.

Adopting legislative measures for positive discrimination that facilitate women’s access to political posts must always be considered very carefully, so as not to distort the genuine rules of democracy and of free choice and also not to offend and discriminate against women who, of their own free will and on their own merits, have risen to the highest positions without any artificial mechanisms to promote them.

It is therefore important that we keep sending out the message that all these countries are welcome to apply for membership of the European Community if they wish to do so and that, in that case, they will be treated on their own merits.

Although they are, of course, linked in practice, they still need to be judged on their own merits.

Germany appears unconvinced that Romania is ready for Schengen membership and suggests that Romania and Bulgaria be looked at separately, on their own merits.