Translation of "Bürgergruppen" in English

Civil society groups must now assert themselves.

The method the Co­operative adopts is to encourage local communities to participate in the management of their own resources.

The Science Shop develops a working relationship between the university's knowledge-production and local citizen groups.

On more than one occasion in 2004, some civilian groups applied to demonstrate in Beijing.

Civil groups and organisations from Australia also came to the rally to support.

Citizen groups in general are quite variable in their ability to carry out tasks, for example.

All groups of inhabitants should be addressed.

Now, however, community groups are gaining opportunities to be­come involved in economic and em­ployment development activities.

Of course, there are groups of citizens who use the web as tool for citizen's activities.

Civic groups such as Ireland for Europe and We Belong played a central role in showing the public that it was not just the political system that wanted the people of Ireland to vote yes in the referendum.

The micro-financing instrument is specifically aimed at assisting these groups of citizens to find alternative employment and to become micro-entrepreneurs themselves.

In the meantime we should be supporting independent media and civil society groups to bring what help we can to the population.

A joint effort of international organisations, Member States’ national bodies, and representatives of citizens’ groups is needed.

Before I came down to the Chamber tonight, I once again had a look at the long list of community groups on both sides of the border who have received PEACE funds and who have been actively involved in peace-building, in reconciliation and in regeneration projects.

I would like to congratulate all the people involved in getting it together, but also all of the political parties in Northern Ireland and the community groups who have worked together to make sure that the peace programme continues to work.

We will also discuss visa facilitation for certain groups of people from Eastern Europe so that they can participate in ENP-related events, building on equivalent measures that have been applied for groups of citizens from the Euro-Med countries since 2003.

My second idea was for our President to take the initiative, along with ourselves, in organising meetings in Parliament of groups of citizens from various European countries to discuss common objectives that we could support.

The government authorities in Bulgaria, both central and municipal, keep turning a blind eye to the numerous protests by citizens' groups which have finally had to approach Mr. Barroso, the European Commission representative, both through official and unofficial channels during his recent visit to our country.

While the groups of interests with headquarters in Brussels have easy access to the European political process, the groups of citizens and the nongovernmental organizations do not have the same means to make their voice heard when adopting the European legislative acts.

The incorporation effort was opposed by the Not NOW Eastvale group that was co-chaired by one of the 18 City Council candidates as well as other groups.

A group of citizens would be able to “invite” the European Commission to propose new legislation.

When a would-be dictator – anywhere, any time, on the right or the left – wants to close an open society or initiate a crackdown against a democracy movement, he follows ten classic steps: invoke a threat, create secret prisons, develop a paramilitary force, establish a surveillance apparatus, arbitrarily detain citizens, infiltrate citizen groups, target key individuals, go after journalists, call criticism “treason,” and subvert the rule of law.

What is also remarkable is that during the last weeks, mainly classical civil groups were departing from CSU; people of the liberal professions, industrial workers, people with secondary school certificate, people with college or university degree.

The programme shall be open to all stakeholders promoting European integration, in particular local authorities and organisations, European public policy research organisations (think-tanks), citizens' groups and other civil society organisations (such as survivors' associations), and educational and research institutions.

Because they pursue a multiplicity of economic and social objectives, they voice the concerns of different groups of citizens, and they are usually close to groups targeted by programmes.