Translation of "Notstandsgesetzgebung" in English

This procedure is more reminiscent of emergency legislation than of what we would like to see in a progressive Europe.

The party also calls for abolishing the emergency law, solving the unemployment and housing problems, upgrading the health services and developing the education system.

He was influenced by the 1968 movement, and he demonstrated against the German emergency legislation (adopted on 30 May 1968), joined the German Communist Party and spent a year studying social sciences at the Franz-Mehring-Institute in Berlin-Biesdorf in East Berlin.

Mass celebrations of millions of people from all walks of life erupted in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square and in cities throughout the country—jubilation over the seeming end of a venal and corrupt dictatorship that ruled under emergency law, imprisoning and disappearing its opponents in Egypt's vast torture chambers.

These scenes are interspersed with original footage to examine the debate surrounding the nuclear rearmament of the West-German army and the "Göttinger Erklärung" (Göttingen Statement) (1957/58), critical statements about the planned emergency legislation (1960-63) as well as the affair surrounding the surveillance of Klaus Traube (1976/77).

The Plenary entirely disregards that at the time of the legislation on emergencies, it would have been politically unviable to further allow domestic deployments of militarily armed units of the armed forces.

Even though British law in India provided that emergency laws were to be applied in case of famines, the famine in Bengal was never officially recognized as such, an emergency was not declared, and therefore no drastic counter measures were taken for its amelioration.

Hannes Swoboda: "Commission must defend EU laws and prevent the misuse of emergency legislation in member states"

I would therefore like to make two requests: I would like us to take note of the consequences that demagogy and the manipulation of feelings and emergency legislation have in a democracy, and of the fact that in Spain, the main elements of the media and the main parties accused all of us who opposed this injustice of collaborating with ETA.

And yet so far the Member States have not implemented the directive in cases where the studies were carried out before 3 July 1988, the date on which the directive came into effect. But there is something more important: the Member States have sought emergency national legislation — as in the case of the unification of Germany, the Colombiadi in Italy and Expo and the Olympic games in Spain — in order to carry out infrastructure projects, deviating from Community legislation and without adequate investigation of their environmental impact.

It has facilitated grave human rights abuses, including extrajudicial execution, "disappearance", rape and torture. Declaring an area a "disturbed area" and granting the military extensive powers is in practice imposing an undeclared emergency regime.

The figures are more or less life-sized, which relates them to the viewer. Their empty faces do not allow categorisation. The caption alone explains why the picture shows four men in suits standing with a sign beside a row of tree stumps, while a plane comes into land above them: they are part of a demonstration against emergency legislation, photographed in 1968, and now positioned beside the stumps of a row of trees that fell victim in 1971 to the widening of the main road to Mainz, and one of the planes that flew food and supplies to West-Berlin in 1948 and 1949 from airfields including the US base at Wiesbaden-Erbenheim.