Translation of "Interessenpolitik" in English

This is the politics of small-minded self-interest instead of statesmanship.

Human rights policy here is always primarily a question of protecting interests.

I know that the new members will not pursue narrow national interests.

The new members will not be guided by narrow national interests.

Such an orientation towards what is necessary and possible means no reduction to mere interest politics.

This is why we can report impartially on German global interests and policies.

That's in the interest of any state.

It is obvious that foreign policy is a policy of individual interests.

The necessity of combining shopfloor and territorial aspects of the representation of workers' interests has already been mentioned.

The jobs at General Motors in Europe are too important to allow them to be dragged into elections or the politics of national interest.

In view of the events in the southern Mediterranean, where we are also seeing the consequences of our policies relating to our own interests and our external energy policy, I consider this to be rather hazardous.

We must agree to speak with one voice in future if Europe's interests are to be defended in the numerous transatlantic organizations.

I fear that the newly cobbled together neighbourhood concept is more about European interests than an appropriate response to the needs of the partner countries.

It is then that a 'policy of naked interest' appears, that is to say, a policy that places the EU alongside the United States and against the majority of the world' s poorer countries.

That treaty between the four allies was signed primarily because it was in the political interests of the imperial princes involved, rather than in discharge of their obligation to defend the circle or empire.

In the long run a policy based on short­term interests benefits no one — least of all companies which must be competitive on world markets.

As regards inward communication of EU issues, the Ballhausplatz and Minoritenplatz pursued their rather unsuccessful path, convinced that the politics of national interest always make the biggest noise.

The conference will also focus on the question of whether critical journalism is losing importance as a result of private interest politics and the so-called "new media" of social networks or online newspapers.

The overhasty recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States at the same point of time is, conversely, a proof that the imperialist powers, within the bounds of their policy of opposing interests, also know how to give a positive value to the factor represented by the Soviet Union.

The procedurally strong position of the Prosecutor under the Rome Statute – who is not exclusively dependent on referrals from States Parties – could indeed be a counterweight to the power and interest politics of both States Parties and those non-States Parties who try to instrumentalize the Court for their purposes.

Populism as synonym of post-modern politics, as flight from class and interest politics towards a new centre, is old hat.

The cultivation of "pressure group" politics on the part of the bourgeoisie of France has gone so far as to result their falling into separate groups, which, without any feeling of responsibility for the whole, have made the government and parliament a plaything of their special interests. This development has, on the other side, given rise to the army developing from an instrument of the state into an independent "pressure group" of its own, prepared to defend its interests without regard for the Republic, despite the Republic, and against the Republic.