We turn next to federal and state budget trends to assess the potential for added intergovernmental transfers to local governments. |
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He talked about the forthcoming European intergovernmental conference and the possibility that it would require a referendum. |
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This requires coordinated intergovernmental action because these activities transcend national boundaries. |
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This process is to culminate in another intergovernmental conference in 2004, leading to yet another treaty. |
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The European Council was formally recognized as the most important intergovernmental body of the European Community. |
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For the next two decades the EEC was de facto intergovernmental and advances to supranationality were blocked. |
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A new intergovernmental conference could cut out the most controversial parts, making it more palatable to British tastes. |
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When regional or global intergovernmental organizations become the focus for policy-making, then NGOs seek to influence the proceedings. |
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More recently, the counterattack of the European Council and the intergovernmental machinery has put this story in question. |
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To start, gay-related policy has an intergovernmental dimension that cannot be ignored. |
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Finally, executive federalism has been the dominant mode of intergovernmental policy-making. |
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This intergovernmental perspective views federalism as a public administration process. |
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It should therefore make best use of its international structures and commissions that already interact with intergovernmental bodies. |
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The international community now had at its disposal a unique intergovernmental body: the first devoted specifically to peacebuilding. |
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The question of the relationship between the intergovernmental and supranational features of the Council is a theme that runs through this chapter. |
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What is the source of the rules or standards under which governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations evaluate and criticize a state? |
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These are decided on an intergovernmental basis, so that in these areas the European Court has no jurisdiction and the Commission's role is limited. |
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Yet no intergovernmental consensus for radical change exists. |
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This is where the intergovernmental perspective fails to grasp reality. |
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Finally, the intergovernmental method finds member governments monopolizing both power to determine policy and power to decide how to organize cooperation. |
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Despite these conflicts between the intergovernmental and the federal conceptions, the customs union was completed by July 1968, earlier than the treaty required. |
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Sometimes the intergovernmental conference looks like an anxious administrative bureaucracy trying to share out power. |
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I can hardly believe that we will ever achieve this at intergovernmental level. |
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A new intergovernmental body, the Human Rights Council, will meet for the first time next month. |
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In the wake of the UNCED the intergovernmental process on forest policy dialogue did however pick up speed. |
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Now, we would like to see the ongoing intergovernmental conference push forward to make concrete headway. |
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Although it is non-binding, there are very obvious political pressures that come into effect when intergovernmental differences become public. |
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Many intergovernmental bodies are paralysed by the wish to predict in the minutest detail the effects of every action they take. |
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Our members and supporters exert influence on governments, political bodies, companies and intergovernmental groups. |
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I trust that this debate will jumpstart the long-awaited resumption of the intergovernmental negotiation process. |
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The ongoing intergovernmental negotiations need to be calm and more effective, and they need to make definite progress. |
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If we leave the decisions on a number of crucial issues to the intergovernmental conference, we risk a rerun of the sorry experience of Nice. |
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Is the project covered by an intergovernmental agreement providing for a broader range of aid activities by the donor in the recipient country? |
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It gradually alters the system of governance, both intergovernmental relations and the relationships that local governments have with society. |
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In this context, we look forward to the resumption of the intergovernmental negotiations, with your blessing, Sir, at the earliest possible date. |
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Ten intergovernmental agreements serve as the judicial foundation of our bilateral ties. |
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One problem is that some commercial satellite bodies that were once intergovernmental organizations have since privatized. |
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In practical terms, it is the first step of an intergovernmental coordination to compel interaction between the territorial and the sectoral. |
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More recently, the right to the truth has been explicitly recognized in several international instruments and by intergovernmental mechanisms. |
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The IPCC is an intergovernmental body set up for the purpose of studying climate change. |
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The task should be referred to an intergovernmental committee of the nation states, and the same structure should be available for defence, foreign and home affairs. |
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Fifth and finally, it is not just at an intergovernmental level that we see the signs of more cooperation. |
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Other nuclear energy supporters include scientists such as the former head of the Met Office, who co-chaired the intergovernmental panel on climate change. |
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The intergovernmental process is designed to be distinct from, and yet be supportive of what is being negotiated at claims and self-government tables. |
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We must not relapse into intergovernmental cooperation. |
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The Court shall enjoy treatment not less favourable than that accorded by the host State to any intergovernmental organization or diplomatic mission in respect of rates of exchange for its financial transactions. |
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It seems quite obvious that the Commission cedes a great deal of its already limited role in CFSP to the Council and the Member Sates and that it is the intergovernmental approach that has prevailed. |
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We should like to see the right of veto cancelled for the transition to intensified cooperation, but this increased flexibility should not pave the way for an increasingly intergovernmental mode of operation. |
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It is the product of the facilitators, which actually predates the intergovernmental negotiations and is not a natural outcome emerging from that process. |
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Universities created by bilateral or multilateral treaties between states are intergovernmental. |
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The stroke of genius of the founding fathers was precisely to propose an original institutional structure that is neither federal nor intergovernmental. |
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We must ensure that this functions in practice, otherwise we will have a new intergovernmental event which has nothing new to offer and which only gives rise to new headlines because something is not quite right. |
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Joint coordination and support of intergovernmental hazard prevention and disaster risk reduction web sites enhances a common look and feel important for greater useability and extensibility. |
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The Framework Agreement was characterized by some as a formalization of the principle of intergovernmental cooperation and serves as a useful reminder of governments' need to co-operate. |
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Far from repudiating its intergovernmental heritage, UNESCO's duty is to recruit every support which could now contribute to the implementation of its programme and strategic activities. |
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A limited number of interrogator codes is reserved for exclusive use and management by military entities, including intergovernmental organisations, in particular the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. |
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That is why the key focus of the last three years has been on hatching an intergovernmental conspiracy to foist this Constitution on the peoples of Europe without daring to ask them their opinion. |
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Paraguay, by ratifying and supporting a series of international treaties and declarations of intergovernmental bodies, has undertaken to use its power to protect and give effect to human rights. |
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It is not repudiation of that judgement to recognize that some other regional and intergovernmental organizations also are in need of assistance to build their own capacities. |
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At this point, I would like to refer back to a not-so-distant past and give some convincing examples of fruitful intergovernmental co-operation in Canada. |
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A career public servant, she has extensive experience in policy and program development and in providing strategic advice to senior officials on a wide range of complex and high profile intergovernmental issues. |
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Europe continues to shape itself as the concepts of nation state are challenged by an unprecedented degree of intergovernmental and supranational institutionalisation. |
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Mr President, beyond Chancellor Schüssel's bonhomie, I think we can sense his frustration at the problem of shepherding 25 fairly feline characters towards agreeing a mandate for a fresh intergovernmental conference. |
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The EIB is currently preparing a purely internal, intergovernmental information system on PPPs that would not be accessible to the public in the Member States. |
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To the unacquainted viewer, this appeared at first as a most anodyne appeal: once again, Member States of an intergovernmental organization reaffirmed their adherence to one of its own normative texts. |
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The most significant form of provincial engagement on climate change has involved prolonged intergovernmental haggling over the terms of Kyoto rather than unilateral provincial policy development. |
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Put simply, intergovernmental relations are just 10 years old in South Africa, and the local sphere-the rock face of delivery and community participation-barely a toddler. |
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See articleThe International Organisation for Migration, an intergovernmental body, said that it feared 500 migrants may have drowned after the boat they were travelling in from Egypt to Malta was rammed by traffickers. |
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Tax evaders should rightly worry that FATCA will reveal their illicit activities. The work by the G20 and OECD on the common reporting standard for tax evasion draws extensively on FATCA's intergovernmental approach. |
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In due course an intergovernmental conference would review and debate the recommendations of the PrepCom. |
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In 1971, the Nordic Council of Ministers, an intergovernmental forum, was established to complement the Council. |
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In situations where they are unwilling or unable to do so, they must allow and facilitate the work of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in providing critical life-saving humanitarian assistance. |
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Lower capital requirements should be imposed for positions in closely correlated currencies, whether statistically confirmed or arising out of binding intergovernmental agreements. |
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The C40 has been identified as 'governance from the middle' and is an alternative to intergovernmental policy. |
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It has reformed its intergovernmental machinery accordingly. |
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The second session of the Uzbek-Omani intergovernmental commission for economic collaboration will be organised in Muscat this September. |
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It further congratulated IFAD on having set a positive example for other intergovernmental organizations and international financial institutions. |
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It would be a Pyrrhic victory, undermining already shaky intergovernmental relations and leading to the demise of the local air pollution agency. |
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A number of international intergovernmental organizations have also been granted observer status to WTO bodies. |
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Some concerns were expressed over the perceived veil of secrecy surrounding intergovernmental negotiations and processes and the exclusion of the public from deliberations. |
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To what extent, then, do they expect that intergovernmental or governmental institutions will provide adequate cooperation for the successful completion of their missions? |
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Additionally, the potential differences between the intergovernmental agreement rules and the regulations are causing concern. |
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This volume assesses the development of human rights field operations of the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations. |
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Norway has also acceded to the Schengen Agreement and several other intergovernmental agreements among the EU member states. |
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Such efforts will enhance preventive action and will reduce the need to resort to intergovernmental action at the regional or international level. |
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As far as these two essential areas are concerned, ten years of applying the Maastricht Treaty have confirmed both the absolute need for joint action and, unfortunately, the inefficacy of the intergovernmental procedures. |
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He recalled how modest the draft budget this Assembly was called upon to approve was, both in absolute terms and relatively speaking in relation to easily identifiable big spenders among intergovernmental Organisations. |
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Well, I'll take a stab at that, but I suspect it's for a deeper intergovernmental negotiation and discussion, one I'm assured is ongoing as the devolution agreements are being negotiated with NWT and Nunavut. |
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Formed in 1989 by the G7 countries, the FATF is an intergovernmental body whose purpose is to develop and promote an international response to combat money laundering. |
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The organization does not accept money from governments, intergovernmental organizations, political parties or corporations in order to avoid their influence. |
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Several regional integration efforts have effectively promoted intergovernmental cooperation and reduced the possibility of regional armed conflict. |
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The sides stressed the need to develop an intergovernmental commission on cooperation, along with inter-parliamentary relations between Tajikistan and Malaysia. |
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The resulting NGO campaign against Shell's proposals included letters, boycotts which even escalated to vandalism in Germany, and lobbying at intergovernmental conferences. |
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The six official languages of the UN, used in intergovernmental meetings and documents, are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. |
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In fact, the author shows that many municipalities used own-source revenue and intergovernmental aid to finance capital projects rather than debt. |
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Donations from foundations which are funded by political parties or receive most of their funding from governments or intergovernmental organizations are rejected. |
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The Commonwealth Foundation is an intergovernmental organisation, resourced by and reporting to Commonwealth governments, and guided by Commonwealth values and priorities. |
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