Translation of "Nationale alleingänge" in English

With the EU framework directive on water resources we will once again see individual countries going their own way.

Unilateral measures at national level such as airline-ticket taxes and kerosene taxes will not work.

Electronic commerce is, by its very nature, a global issue and national solutions alone would hamper the development of electronic money.

Unilateral action by individual countries has for a long time offered no prospect of success.

Seehofer had demanded national unilateralism, with border closures.

The world order is positioning itself against national solo attempts.

However, it is also evident that unilateral action by individual countries is a mistake.

National recluses in the economy are less and less possible, especially with a single currency.

That is why they are "convinced that national unilateralism does more harm than good ".

Furthermore, the coordination of budgetary policies - and I am thinking particularly in the context of the stability and growth pact - specifically prevents differing national responses, such as were seen during the first oil crisis.

In my opinion, the role of the Member States and of an individual approach to aviation per Member State is over.

This will facilitate coordinated action in the event of a failure of a cross-border group, but further action appears necessary to promote cooperation and prevent fragmented national responses.

Given that the EU has common fish resources and a common fish market, we should avoid uncoordinated national initiatives which could end up displacing the problems elsewhere, thus affecting the level playing field among Member States.

As this must not unduly affect the uniformity recommended by the European Council, this flexibility must be subject to a Community control mechanism that allows the preventive measures applicable everywhere to be modified and enables any national variants which are no longer justified to terminated.

With the drawing-up of convergence programmes still the responsibility of individual Member States, the joint discussion and evaluation of such programmes in the Council of Economic and Finance Ministers helps to ensure that Member States are dissuaded from taking isolated national economic policy decisions which would in any case be open to question given the ever-closer enmeshment of national economies.

The aim was to work out a Community approach for a number of technical procedures, avoiding isolated national initiatives.

It is in recognition of this fact that German conservatives strive, for example, to strike a balance between economy and ecology. We feel responsible, on a global level, for the environment, which is why we disagree with unilateral decisions by individual nations when such decisions ignore the needs of the rest of the world.

It therefore requires us to act at EC level, but it also requires us to come to common arrangements with our major partners — especially the USA and Japan, and above all it precludes isolated national action.