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14:39 Oct 12, 2004 |
German to English translations [PRO] Law/Patents - Government / Politics | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Steffen Walter Germany Local time: 21:25 | ||||||
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3 +3 | grassroots legal policy |
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4 | legal policy close to the citizen |
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3 | legal policy for the average citizen/citizen-based legal policy |
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bürgernahe Rechtspolitik legal policy for the average citizen/citizen-based legal policy Explanation: One meaning of Rechtspolitik is legal policy. Literally, bürgernah is citizen-friendly, i.e. something for the average citizen as opposed to something for legislators, governments, maybe. At the site below, the translation is "citizen-based" which could also work. http://www.ufu.de/sites/english/vision.htm |
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bürgernahe Rechtspolitik legal policy close to the citizen Explanation: A "policy close to the citizen" is a going concept/objective at EU level (and not only there) - see, for example, http://www.europarl.eu.int/facts/1_2_2_en.htm - "The subsidiarity principle pursues two opposing aims. On the one hand, it allows the Community to act if a problem cannot be adequately settled by the Member States acting on their own. On the other, it seeks to uphold the authority of the Member States in those areas that cannot be dealt with more effectively by Community action. The purpose of including it in the European Treaties is to bring decision-making within the Community as ***close to the citizen*** as possible." http://archiv.spd.de/suche/archiv/hannover_97/leiteuropa_e.h... - "Only if at the same time a policy ***close to the citizen*** is reinforced and by that the participation of the citizen in the political decision ..." |
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bürgernahe Rechtspolitik grassroots legal policy Explanation: I agree with Olaf; Rechtspolitik is hard to parse without more context here. Bürgernahe Rechtspolitik almost sounds like a translation itself of "grassroots legislation" or similar. |
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