Translation of "Supranationale ebene" in English

On the supranational level, scholars focus on European law.

That means that the authority of the Member States comes first and that of our supranational institutions comes second.

The record of abstention beaten at every single European election should serve to remind us that the supranational level is not that of a fair and effective democracy.

However, when implementing decisions of a general nature do not generally reflect the supranational level, what we have is back-door renationalisation.

The focus of the exercise of power within the framework of the Union would move from intergovernmental cooperation to a supranational level.

Hence the countless proposals to transfer Justice and Home Affairs from the sovereign control of the Member States and their institutions to supranational EU level.

It cannot be restricted to supranational level, with rules on non-discrimination or on other economic interests used as a pretext.

The Commission's assessment of all university systems, both public-sector and privately-run, could create a new bureaucratic, supranational European layer, disregarding the subsidiarity principle which is included - almost for the sake of appearances - in the first paragraph of the report.

Cultural differences are too strong to win voluntary compliance. It would be absurd to delegate education and culture to a supranational level.

However, he expressed his doubt about the legal certainty of a risk-based approach and thought it was more practical to leave the assessment with each national supervisory authority, rather than to place it at supranational European level.

Ironically, the fact that European integration presupposes the increasing transfer of competencies from both the subnational and national to the supranational level seemingly does not give rise to concern within Catalan political circles.

The fiscal federalism literature points to various possible grounds for shifting policy competences from the national to supranational level, but at the same time it makes clear that any centralization is also likely to entail some drawbacks in terms of welfare such that the assignment of competences between levels of government should rest on a cost-benefit analysis.

Policy recommendations will accordingly be formulated in a gradualist fashion, with more far-reaching proposals requiring higher degrees of political responsibility at EC level.

The latter can be neutralized either by a voluntary coordination process between national authorities or by a transfer of competences to the supranational level.

Funds shall only be provided where the supranational level ensures added value, hence where the European level invests more efficiently and more cost effective than the Member States.

This "automatic stabiliser" usually functions very well at the national level but the logic cannot be simply transferred to the supranational level.

If we take into account that the EU nearly one third of all regulations are enacted by Brussels, awareness has to rise that a degree of autonomy cannot only be measured in terms of powers gained vis-à-vis the central government, but also in regard to the supranational structure of the EU.

At the European level, "identity without nation" does not solve the problem, but simply transfers it to a supranational level.

4 The full-employment and social welfare-provision goals of the post-war nation-states have ceased to be priorities. The new pan-European directive is the regulation of inflation through the shift of macroeconomic policymaking from the national to the supranational level, ‘from national capitals to Frankfurt and Brussels’. 5 For this reason, the Eurozone is as a whole backed by a Stability and Growth Pact obliging national governments to meet harsh budget targets.