Look up: subsidiarity

1. Subsidiarity
   The notion that decision-making should occur at the level at which the people most directly concerned can take responsibility.
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2. Subsidiarity
   In the European Union, subsidiarity is a rule whereby action by EU institutions is only permissible if it is necessary to achieve the proper purposes of such action, i.e. if these purposes cannot be sufficiently achieved by institutions of individual States acting independently. Subsidiarity is an application of the principle of proportionality.
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3. subsidiarity
   Devolution of decision-making within the European Union from the centre to the lowest level possible. Since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty on European union 1991, which affirms that,...
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4. subsidiarity
   the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function,performing only those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level Category: Labour
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5. Subsidiarity
   Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which can...
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6. subsidiarity
   Devolution of decision-making within the European Union from the centre to the lowest level possible. Since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty on European union 1991, which affirms that, wherever possible, decisions should be `taken as closely as possible to the citizens`, subsidiarity has been widely debated as a means of counterin...
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7. Subsidiarity
   The principle that all EU decisions should be taken at the most local level which is practicable. Only transnational matters are the domain of the European Institutions. Term much loved by former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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8. Subsidiarity
   [Catholicism] Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. Political decisions should be taken at a local level if possible, rather than by a central authority. The Oxford English Dictionary defines...
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