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Subsidiarity
Subsidiarity meaning
The principle that initiative (whether in government, business or religion) ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranational level, unless the latter presents clear advantages)
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The organisation is also a key defender of the subsidiarity principle in Europe, lobbying for its inclusion in the EU treaties and demanding recognition of the word in dictionaries via the worldwide "Subsidiarity is a word" movement.
One of the great strengths of the Catholic Church is our belief in subsidiarity.
Subsidiarity may still get lip service but it has been thrown out of the window.
Democratic elections can work locally, and in small countries or communities; Switzerland’s system of express subsidiarity comes to mind.
That’s what subsidiarity is about.
Article 5 sets out the principles of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality with respect to the limits of its powers.
However, subsidiarity involves the distribution of authority in structures outside of the Church's clergy and thus does not contradict Ultramontanism.
It supports European integration on basis of the subsidiarity-principle.
Participation In decentralization the principle of subsidiarity is often invoked.
The economic system of a society should therefore be focused primarily on the flourishing of the family unit, but not in isolation: at the appropriate level of family context, as is intended in the principle of subsidiarity.
The essence of subsidiarity is concisely inherent in the Christian maxim 'Give someone a fish and you feed him for a day; teach the person to fish and you feed him for a lifetime'.