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The 17 people who sent this letter in Jan 2020 to the Nobel Committee of Oslo are all from the German Bundestag. I am not sure how these nominations work but I
by seesawtron 6y ago
The 17 people who sent this letter in Jan 2020 to the Nobel Committee of Oslo are all from the German Bundestag. I am not sure how these nominations work but I would hope to be positively surprised when more governments show support with their nominations to indirectly support transparency in governments.
- luckylion 6y agoThey are members of parliament (legislative), but not of the government (executive). Their party is the merged & renamed descendant of the SED, East Germany's One-Party-State ruling party. For a variety of reasons, they look to be cast as opposition for the foreseeable future on the federal level, but are part of state governments in Germany's eastern states.
- ta455634 6y agoI see confusion crop up here around the term government every now and then. In America, we have our 3 branches (executive, legislative, and judicial) and we call the collection of all 3 the "government" whereas in general I think Europe uses the word "state" for that.
- luckylion 6y agoYeah, for general use, EU "government" is best translated as US "administration", I believe. A lot of people don't include the judiciary when they say "the state", I believe as the courts are independent and serve as a controlling instance that should (in theory) reign in the state when it oversteps.