At national level and at the national level

[Solutio]

Hello,

I came across with phrases such as “at national level and “at the national level”. I wonder if I can use those interchangibly ?

- At national level, the party's presence in the Bundestag has coarsened parliamentary debates and, arguably, its campaigns centred around migration and national identity have broken old German taboos and shifted politics to the right, as the political centre struggled to deal with the electoral challenge.

- "One of the problems in Europe is that in some areas policy decisions are taken either at the European level, yet our political discourse at the national level takes place as if Europe did not exist.

 

[GoesStation]

Write at the national level.

 

[tedmc]

Write at the national level.

I know the definite article is grammatically required but it can be omitted with "national level", right?

 

[Solutio]

Some say “the” can be omitted in similiar cases in formal texts. If so, is there any rule on how to decide it ? By the way , the text I quoted with no “the” was taken from a bbc article. So I do not think they made a mistake

 

[Rover_KE]

Some say “the” can be omitted in similiar cases in formal texts. If so, is there any rule on how to decide it? By the way, the text I quoted with no “the” was taken from a BBC article, so I do not think they made a mistake.

No they didn't – it's fine.

Don't leave a space before a question mark, exclamation mark, comma or full stop/period.

I came across phrases such as “at national level and “at the national level”.

Always tell us the source of any text you quote.

This is important information which needs to appear at the very beginning of a thread, not as a 'by the way' in post #4.

 

[jutfrank]

I know the definite article is grammatically required but it can be omitted with "national level", right?

It would not be ungrammatical to omit the article, yes.

Some say “the” can be omitted in similiar cases in formal texts. If so, is there any rule on how to decide it ?

I suggest you follow the advive given in post #2—don't omit it.

This advice does depend to some extent on the context of use, but I think it's a pretty good rule to follow.

 

[tedmc]

It would not be ungrammatical to omit the article, yes.

Apparently, it is common too. See here.