"paternalista" in English

I find it somewhat patronising to be told that we will get action plans.

This reinforces the patronising image that the European Union already has.

We need to be clear about not being seen as a 'nanny state'.

That is the nanny state mentality gone too far.

Nevertheless, wanting to regulate this problem paternalistically and bureaucratically at European level is a step too far.

This is the nanny state gone mad.

So anybody who is talking about nanny-state Europe is totally misplaced when they are looking at the barometer issue.

I find his paternalistic attitude repellent

I can't stand his paternalistic attitude

In Bali the European Union should demonstrate its credentials as a leader, not paternalistically but in a spirit of cooperation.

We have heard again tonight people in this House claiming that we do not need this legislation, that it is about the nanny state.

The Commission's proposal is overly nannying because it tries to push consumers in a certain direction instead of giving them the information.

We should constantly make it clear that we want to help them, but not out of any feeling of hostility, not out of any negative sense of superiority as improvers of the world.

All too often, Europe has fallen into the trap of sounding patronising and appearing to dictate to them when this is not the right partnership approach at all.

I note that many people use these products and that they consider any ban imposed by a bureaucratic government to be unnecessary and patronising.

We want full equality rather than the former demeaning sympathy, and, instead of being patronised by well-meaning people, we want the right to autonomy.

But at least the late hour of this debate has not kept us from making a sober assessment of the Barcelona Process, and the rapporteur is certainly to be commended for her candid report.