Translation of "Politische bestrebungen" in English

This was complemented by information on similar policy initiatives currently under discussion in Australia.

Similar policy developments have taken place within Europe.

We have a moral and political responsibility to support Papuan aspirations for self-determination.

However, we must understand that the serious deficit in foreign policy and in human rights policy is due to and connected with the transnational character and unanimity provision, behind which hide national interests and various political expediencies and priorities.

Some Member States that are making fast progress, such as mine, are beginning to be threatened by policies that are seeking to slow down, or, in other Member States, to establish unfair competition with the supply and social change that is taking place in our countries.

They noted that all of these moves have been made within a configuration that relies on society's anti-politics and anti-political-party mood to cloak various political ambitions under a mantle of civic action.

The objectives of the Directive can be more effectively ensured by acting at Union level because this guarantees consistency shared objectives, understanding and political drive.

It is a crucial instrument in meeting the commitments of the Kyoto Protocol and has the potential for providing an effective stimulus for policies to dissociate energy use from economic growth, to improve energy consumption patterns and to develop renewable energy sources, like biofuels, as pointed out in the Green Paper on the security of energy supply in Europe16.

Shortly after 1990 there was considerable political efforts to upgrade what was now called the Saxon-Franconian trunk line for higher speeds to make it more competitive for rail connections.

Firstly, there is a strong political concern about spending all the available resources from the Cohesion Fund.

Although there have been political efforts to introduce training in the form of company apprenticeships, the number of trainees is quite small.

It was natural that these élites would exclude any political concerns from their field of manoeuvre, thus protecting themselves from any democratic control and basically managing to be both illegitimate and irresponsible.

It stirred the hundreds of millions of colonial slaves who had never known political aspiration before, who had never dared to hope before.

The rest of the "Zweckartikel" reads: " ...supports nationwide and international political attempts that involve the fair distribution of goods, democratizing economy and public institutions, saving the world from military and civilian destruction, and the realization of human rights."

While religion at that time quite definitely determined the Africans' political consciousness and the form their resistance would take, a government commission arrived at the conclusion "that the rebellion was only a screen to hide political aspirations."

This system, which is also strongly embedded in local government legislation, has come under pressure from acquisitions and participation of private concerns and from political efforts to introduce competition and ostensible cost-cutting.

In New Zealand there were political ambitions in the mid 1970s to ban abortions in private clinics and only allow them in State-run hospitals

An additional influential factor is that policy efforts often ignore or underestimate intercultural and region-specific requirements.

That the revolution succeeded so quickly and—seemingly, at the first superficial glance—so radically, is only due to the fact that, as a result of an extremely unique historical situation, absolutely dissimilar currents, absolutely heterogeneous class interests, absolutely contrary political and social strivings have merged, and in a strikingly “harmonious” manner. Namely, the conspiracy of the Anglo-French imperialists, who impelled Milyukov, Guchkov and Co. to seize power for the purpose of continuing the imperialist war, for the purpose of conducting the war still more ferociously and obstinately, for the purpose of slaughtering fresh millions of Russian workers and peasants in order that the Guchkovs might obtain Constantinople, the French capitalists Syria, the British capitalists Mesopotamia, and so on. This on the one hand.

At EU level especially, political efforts abound, after the liberalisation of the other utility sectors, to push for a liberalisation of the water sector.

Executing Alex Rockwell furthers your political aspirations as a law and order candidate.

The difficulty is that political efforts mainly focus on doing away with leghold traps in areas where wild animals are trapped by people who rely heavily on trapping.

Political efforts are even touching on the enormous number of leghold traps used in the EU to keep 'pests' at bay.

It shows that justice has been done to ideas on achieving economic and social cohesion and it shows a political effort to avoid incoherence.

I always taught my pupils that the law and politics must respond to the concerns of the people.

It is also important for support to be given to political efforts to further the role of women in agriculture by making it easier for them to be active as agricultural entrepreneurs.

I now hope that the Community budget will provide this programme with financial resources that match up to the political ambitions that we are publicly stating for the Mediterranean area.

I would like to point out that the Commission's proposal in this field takes account, on the one hand, of the austerity required, for example, by the Stability and Growth Pact in all public finances, but also realism with regard to the political ambitions repeatedly expressed not just by the Council but also by this Parliament.

But it is important - and this is where the rapporteur is very clear in her report - that the key to resolving this conflict is very much in the political aspirations of the people of both sides and of both countries.

If I say I understand that the Kurds in Turkey have felt anger and disaffection at the suppression of their culture, language and identity and denial of their political aspirations, am I justifying PKK bombs?

The fight against terrorism is simply being used as an excuse to create a climate of mass fear in order to smooth the way for the anti-democratic, anti-grass roots policies being promoted.

I would like to remind you that the above resolution of the European Parliament stipulates that the Preliminary Draft Budget presented by the Commission is insufficient and fails from a budgetary viewpoint to reflect commonly agreed-upon political ambitions, in particular those related to the Lisbon Strategy and the need to support small and medium-seized enterprises.

The legislative elections of 18 November only increased political aspirations, with the victory of the independence supporters in a ballot marked by a record abstention.

First, the trade and cooperation agreement: it is a political endeavour, setting the basis for contractual relations between the European Union and Iraq for the first time.

The unique status of a European Union citizen necessarily creates the need for a unique general system of movement and residence in response to the demand to enrich the content of European citizenship in accordance with the political aspirations of the Union.

One may without exaggeration say that the EU is at present the only player in the world that could offer a political forum for attempts like the West Bank environment project to build stability and peace through action on the part of the inhabitants of the region.