Translation of "Kritischen haltung" in English

The Commission tends to be critical of our Mediterranean partners.

Catholic theology had held on to a critical stance towards modernity for a long time.

Try not to approach your loved one from an attitude of judgment.

And I am still critical nevertheless.

Thanks to our critical stance, we have managed to reduce electricity consumption by 25% over three years.

Given Poland' s rather critical stance, this question is all the more pressing.

In their opposition to fracking, Switzerland's cantons do not stand alone.

The work of Joseph Beuys is shown in the context of his social and environment-politically critical attitude.

We appeal to the users’ critical sense towards those messages.

During a prolonged sojourn in Spain in 1935, he was arrested in Barcelona because of his critical political stance.

Others, including Cornelia Schleime, had to leave the GDR due to their critical attitude toward the country.

For example, a critical stance by the Committee on Budgetary Control ensured the introduction of a Statute for Members of the European Parliament and of a Statute for Assistants, it ensured that we carried out a critical examination of the purchase of buildings here in Strasbourg, and it ensured the accomplishment of an EMAS procedure that has reduced the environmental impact of our work.

This is therefore an excellent compromise between the position adopted by the Commission, which is in favour of a full repeal of all the directives and against new regulations in this area within the framework of the MID, and the critical positions initially adopted by the Member States with regard to this proposal.

I am therefore against the ideological and hyper-critical attitude of the Greens, and ask for this motion to be rejected.

But I have to say that the motion for a resolution did not set out primarily to be critical.

The European Parliament has taken a close interest in China and over a number of years has adopted many resolutions, almost all of them highly critical of China in many respects.

I am, though, glowing hot in my opposition to the concept of man-made climate change.

We would also like to emphasise that we agree with the report's extremely hesitant and critical position with regard to the project to establish a House of European History.

I therefore welcome the Schwaiger report for its practical and critical attitude and also for its endeavours to help people in specific ways and to consolidate administration and the rule of law, without which there will be fresh waves of refugees, and the return of refugees and all the reconstruction work we have done, of which many are justifiably so proud, will immediately come under threat if the highly fragile peace there is destroyed.

Irrespective of my critical attitude to the fund as such, of which you are aware, I would urgently request that you all join the all-group reform alliance and at least allow for the institutional separation of Parliament and the voluntary pension fund, as set out in Amendment No 6.

It is unjustified because at the Johannesburg Summit, as I see it, indication was given of the right way forwards, the correct diagnosis was made, and the European Union acted correctly at the summit, and we should be congratulating it on this instead of being constantly critical.

My group can otherwise live with the content of the Hong Kong agreement, but we do endorse Mr Watson's critical approach.

I am also pleased that the rapporteur is in any event prepared, despite his critical stance towards agencies, to equip and furnish the European Maritime Agency.

In spite of our broadly critical stance, we call on Members to adopt the amendments to which we put our name, which were aimed at setting up a pilot project for actions in the textiles and clothing sector, in turn leading to a Community programme for the sector, as proposed by Parliament; at setting up recovery plans for fisheries resources, in light of the social and economic impact of the closed seasons; and at promoting multilingualism, not least in the ACP-EU parliamentary assemblies.

Whilst that is, on the one hand, a good sign, in that it is the consequence of our consistently critical stance towards the regime in Belarus, we must also, on the other, ask ourselves why the European Parliament could not simply take part in the OSCE mission as the EU’s official representation.

This time round, the Commission has mounted a full-on offensive, and the Court of Auditors is being accused of being overly critical and having produced an ambiguous report.