Translation of "Technokratisch" in English

We are conducting this debate in much too technocratic a way.

What the Commission is proposing to us is purely technocratic.

I have the impression that your approach is quite technocratic and elitist.

Indeed, our concept of human capital is not a technocratic view.

Economic policies are usually not technocratic in this sense.

The Commission has to take responsibility by being political, and not technocratic.

To win that debate we should not have a technocratic approach.

He considered the communication too technocratic and lacking in humanist values.

The Commission has to take responsibility by being political, and not technocratic.

One thing is certain: the endless progress of the technocratic - capitalist system is unsustainable.

But that doesn't come across technocratically, but rather with warmth and lifeblood.

That sounds technocratic, but in fact it is associated with very practical concerns.

For some it is too technocratic.

At the moment, the European Commission and Council are often too technocratic in this respect too.

Look at the litany of technocratically inspired examples of privatization and deregulation in the 1990's.

Finally, the governance of the eurozone remains excessively cumbersome and technocratic.

Westendorp. — (ES) I should like to tell the two honourable Members first of all that that is not a technocratic answer but is the only answer I can give as President-in-Office of the Council.

There is also talk of a second European Union, bureaucratic, technocratic and soulless, but I believe in that first Europe: the Europe of freedom, justice, ideas and rules.

It is a matter of making it clear at last that our Community is one which has set its sights on genuine improvements in the welfare of its citizens, and which is not solely determined to push through a narrow monetarist view of stability policy and a technocratically agreed timeframe and strategy for the introduction of monetary union, at the expense of millions of impoverished and unemployed people.

As far as the ambitions of the Czech Presidency are concerned and the extent to which the Presidency was technocratic, showed leadership, was visionary or whatever - I am sure it began with a vision for the EU and with a programme and also that it succeeded in fulfilling that programme.

It is true that we cannot underestimate these legal obstacles, but we cannot say on the one hand that Europe is too technocratic and that it should not just be a 'Europe for traders', while on the other hand being hostile when Europe is used for the service of the people.

In this respect, I should like to say to you that our vision of Europe is not a technocratic, bureaucratic or economic project; for us, Europe is, first and foremost, a cultural project, the language diversity of which deserves to be safeguarded.

We are going to do so, of course, both with the Commission and with the Council, because we are all convinced that the Europe we are going to construct will be neither technocratic nor bureaucratic and Parliament must therefore fully demonstrate its .

However, by means of the long discussion between Parliament, the Commission and the Council on the issue of improving the negotiation of Community legislation, myself and the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, which approved the report unanimously, wish to express our concern at a tendency which I would describe as technocratic in the legislative field.

The 28-page agreement that will allow formal coalition talks to proceed is overly detailed, technocratic, unambitious, and lacks vision.

My complaints are that he is not technocratic enough, that he is pursuing the chimera of “bipartisanship” too far, and that, as a result, many of his policies will not work well, or at all.

Yet, despite this, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the EU’s role in Pakistan bears all the hallmarks of the pre-Maastricht polity that it no longer wants to be: technocratic, apolitical, and marginalized by the United States.