Translation of "Willensbildungsprozess" in English

In the future, the transport ministers want to jointly establish new priorities that will inform the process of opinion-forming in Europe.

This is also true because in contrast to the European Human Rights Convention, which was ratified by the Member States, the process of formulating political demands and objectives in this respect has not taken place in national parliaments.

The Commission has put in place new rules to ensure full transparency of contacts between Commissioners and associations or self-employed individuals10 and will table proposals for an Inter-institutional Agreement on a mandatory transparency register, so that all the European institutions are open about who is influencing the decision making process.

Moreover, although Union citizens thus disenfranchised retain the right to elect members of the European Parliament, they do not have the right to participate in the national processes leading to the composition of national governments, the members of which compose the Council, the Union’s other co-legislator.

It is necessary to ensure effective involvement in the process of political consensus-building of all relevant social and political players at national and EU level.

The EU will use its full potential to lead in identifying and bringing together user needs and to aggregate the political will in support of these and of wider policy objectives.

They are addressed to the EU governments, the European Commission and the US authorities and aim at increasing the involvement of civil society in transatlantic policy-making.

It must be based on the shared belief that organised civil society is not only an important consultative partner in the process of shaping opinions and policy during the accession round, but that it will also have a vital and continuing role to play after enlargement.

The Committee of the Regions is the European Union forum in which the regions and local authorities of all Member States work together, regardless of differences in national territorial setups, to provide an input into the European opinionforming process.

The Supreme Court has determined the extent of the attribution based on the decision-making authority of the representatives and their share in shaping the will of the legal entity.

Similarly, civil society needs to further develop its capacity to demand accountability concerning the use of budget funds in order to strengthen the role it can play in the political consensus-building process.

With the Presidency of Donald Trump, the question of how much direct influence the "common people" should have on the political decision-making process is present on both sides of the Atla n tic.

And, in this way, really to achieve the will-forming process, from a first timidly flourishing idea, which could still be possible.

Democracy-building aid supports the political opinion-forming process and the political participation of all social groups in young and re?established democracies.

In particular, the board of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training calls upon the Federal Government to make provision within the scope of European training policy for procedures ensuring the participation of the stakeholders in the field of initial and continuing vocational education and training mentioned above in the national decision-making process.

Dialogue-based participation is oriented toward consensus and allows for the differentiated formulation of political demands and objectives within a relatively protected environment – protected from commercialization in the hands of the media and the influence of powerful actors and lobbies.

In this will-forming process, the willingness to change reflects on his current situation, embarks on the introspection of his abilities, qualities and motives, and creates a landscape of ideas, which could now be possible - in order to decide on a goal.

Arenas for democracy should not open up only during the formulation of political demands and objectives, but as early as possible: in schools and institutions of further education.

Nor is there any requirement to provide information about procedures that are still pending, such as advance queries, because the Federal Government’s autonomous process of forming a decision has not yet been completed at that stage.

Resolving the normative tension among these constitutionally protected interests in consideration of the principle of tolerance is a task for the democratic legislature, which, within the public process of policy formulation, must seek a compromise that all can reasonably be expected to comply with.

Against that background, an obligation of the Federal Government to inform the Bundestag in general or individual Bundestag members with regard to specific questions concerning decisions taken by the Federal Security Council on advance queries concerning intended armament exports would interfere with an inter-departmental decision-making process within the Federal Government’s area of responsibility and which is not yet completed.

This process of decision making faces some sound criticism: people who cannot articulate themselves very well or who would have to fear that they become "talked into something" or shouted down in the discussion, will not even begin to take part.

In addition, it is also necessary to involve all the interested parties - customers offices, buyers and vendors, carriers, banks and insurance companies - in the decision-making process.

This morning, for example, we talked generally about comitology and debated the need for this House to be included in the process of formulating objectives, and now with the Miller report from the Committee on Excise Duties, we have the possibility of putting this into practice.

Through its remit as a forum for civil society organisations, the Committee can ensure contact with grassroots concerns and contribute to the democratic policy-making process.

Whilst sharing this view, the Committee has some doubts whether the Maastricht Treaty will overcome the constraints imposed by differing national viewpoints and practices, which have hitherto affected the pace of policy making with regard to transport.

Their effectiveness is crucially dependent on the extent to which their players are prepared to help achieve consensus through public and democratic debate and to accept the outcome of a democratic policy-making process.

If a six weeks' consultation period is proposed, the implication is that the social partners will be consulted only very late in the policy process.

Acting under the EEC' and EAEC Treaties the Commission may thus have more limited formal powers than when acting under the ECSC Treaty; but it none the less performs a leading and essential role in the institutional structure and in the Community's decision making process.