| We must break the present supranational controls over nation-states, by the financial oligarchy. |
| The template constituted a form of supranational policy-making, in which powers were transferred from the national to the EU level. |
| More often than not, efforts to knit national economies into one supranational whole fall victim to obstructionism. |
| The defining characteristic of our age is not a shift of power upward, to supranational institutions, but downward. |
| Thus, the EU is a crossroads where subnational, national, supranational, and international policy-making all intersect. |
| While initially established by national governments, supranational EU institutions develop a degree of autonomy from the control of governments. |
