Translation of "Prevailing policies" in German

But in other areas, such as trade, employment, or industrial policies, prevailing thinking is either naïve or non-existent.

It will aim to develop appropriate water management strategies, improve water quality, cope with imbalances between water demand and availability or supply at different levels and scale, close the water cycle, promote sustainable end-user behaviour and address water-related risks whilst sustaining the integrity, structure and functioning of the aquatic ecosystems in line with the prevailing Union policies.

The project – which is being sponsored by more than 80 organisations, among them the biggest European trade unions (CGT, CGIL, CCOO and CGT-P) and important social movements like ATTAC and also NGOs, and which also enjoys the support of ETUC and is supported by important political personalities of the Party of the European Left, among them its chair Pierre Laurent – represents a two-fold ambition: on the one hand, turning the rejection of the prevailing policies into a broad struggle for an alternative and, on the other hand, translating this alternative into a politics for changing the relation of forces in Europe.

Naturally, it involves very "critical" support for the prevailing policies of the monopolies and their imperialist governments.

The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed.

Just how closely the topics of this meeting were linked to current events was brought home by the deadly attacks that would be perpetrated six weeks later in Oslo and on Utoya Island by the Norwegian Anders Breivik in the name of the fight against a so-called ‘Islamisation’ of his country and, more generally, of Europe, which he saw as due to the laxity of the prevailing policies of multiculturalism and immigration.

These women had gathered in front of the Ministry of Labour at the invitation of activists of the women's movement in order to protest the prevailing misogynist policies and discriminations against women in Iran, such as the unjust and anti-women conditions in the country's labour market.

Some secular geoscientists are aware of the higher CO2 levels in the past, but they are not generally speaking out against the prevailing "politically correct" policies, which are trying to limit carbon dioxide emissions to prevent global warming.

However, some problems began with the prevailing policy on the island.

Much has been written about the language policy prevailing in Orwell's Oceania.

I am proud to be in that tradition, to stand against the prevailing government policy and sentiment in my country.

This would, however, imply that the prevailing policy in the European Commission and also in the individual Member States does in fact consist of considering the interests of the majority of Europeans according to their guiding principle, instead of serving as they have done to date as executors of the interests of the élite of society.

Regional political realities, transnational interaction, and the common search for a better future should, eventually, prevail over policies geared for repression, discipline, and order.

Buchanan’s analysis stood in marked contrast not only to Adam Smith’s dictum that the pursuit of self-interest leads, as if “by an invisible hand,” to desirable social outcomes, but also to the prevailing approach to policy analysis, which views government as a benevolent planner, implementing textbook “solutions” to market failures.

Instead of reassessing the prevailing economic-policy approach, international development institutions took aim at the easy targets: developing-country governments.

Meanwhile, Bush has convinced many poor and middle-class voters that they should be happy, too, without telling them that they will have to pay for their small tax cuts with much larger cuts in future government services if his administration's policies prevail in the long term.

So it is encouraging that the BoE is experimenting with a platform that enables a wider variety of views to be heard: a blog called Bank Underground (a reference to the Tube station beneath the Bank’s headquarters) that publishes posts by junior staff challenging – or supporting – prevailing policy.

At the same time, the focus of the proposed reform of cohesion policy as well as that for rural development policy on jobs and growth is acutely relevant to the prevailing policy context.