Translation of "Kleinstaaterei" in English

The time for a parochial approach to nuclear safety has long since gone.

Were I not from Luxembourg, I would warn against this kind of small-state mentality.

It was the last of the state highpoints to be climbed.

In Germany and Italy economic growth was prevented by the multitude of little states.

Any particularist approach by small states must be relegated to the past.

Here, the need to rid the skies of the small-state mentality means that there is still a need for improvement.

What you have proposed, Mr Straw, is particularism, and does nothing to advance the cause of social Europe.

We need to use pooling and sharing to finally overcome the European ‘small-state’ approach in the area of defense.

We must not look with anxiety to the future and continue with our parochial approach, as is happening to a certain extent in the Council.

Progressive, anti-nationalist Catalans, like Colau, find themselves squeezed from both sides: the state’s authoritarian establishment, which uses the EU’s directives as a cover for its behavior, and a renaissance of radical parochialism, isolationism, and atavistic nativism.

Projects to build railways failed in 1836, 1845, 1851 and 1856, caused by funding problems and the number of small states that the line would have to run through: the line as built was only 18 km long but it ran across the territories of four independent countries: the Free City of Frankfurt, the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Darmstadt), the Duchy of Nassau and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg.

I also call upon the Commission, which happily has a deeply committed departmental head for the domestic market, in the person of Mr Narjes, to cooperate in the attempt to get the Council to use in respect of the 21 directives relating to this matter the option of simple majority decisions which it has already made successful use of once before this month, in order to promote simplification, openness and the free movement of goods and to combat unnecessary checks and particularism, in the interest of all Member States.

This continued work on the patchwork quilt of little states covering Germany was judged very critically in Idar and Oberstein, whereas Birkenfeld, which had as a result of the new political arrangement been raised to residence town, found little to complain about.

By "national" one meant a cultural, linguistic commonality in the German-speaking area, which was still fragmented by parochialism.

Franconia never developed into a unified territorial state, because the patchwork quilt of small states (Kleinstaaterei) survived the Middle Ages and lasted until the 18th century.

The economic revival of nearly all economic branches called for a well-organised post, which could not be achieved with small states.

Europe is not the self­seeking model of parochialism, nor does it erect any new walls to the east or to the south.

We must move away from a situation of monopolies and here I would like you to consider - although this is by no means a revolutionary idea - that if we have a single market on the ground, we could also have a single market in the skies, and that we should certainly allow different cooperating or competing service companies to control certain European aviation routes beyond the national borders, that we should move beyond the small-state mentality and offer services to airlines.

Before 1803/1806/1810 the territory of Middle Franconia consisted of a varied mix of separate sovereign states and holdings (this situation is in German also called Kleinstaaterei).