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The Shoura, or consultative council, is toothless: appointed by the king, it is unable to legislate and will remain un-elected for the foreseeable future.
But the skills needed for leadership of a wartime governing council are very different from those needed to run a sovereign state.
One of the more important medium-term initiatives urged by the UN Commission is the creation of a global economic coordinating council, which would not only coordinate economic policy, but would also assess impending problems and institutional gaps.
They complain about year-long waits for eye operations and hip surgery--a direct result of a Social Democratic reform of 1994 that abolished the right of patients to seek alternative care at public expense if they are not treated within three months by their regional council.
Recognizing the inadequacy of Japan’s existing national-security policies and laws to protect the country in this new context, the government has established a national security council and moved to “normalize” its security posture.
Yet badgering or jailing journalists is no way to resolve what could be handled through a voluntary media council or independent ombudsman.
During one council meeting, Glushko said, “My engines could send into space any piece of metal.”
The ECB governing council has already agreed, in principle, to use the first of these policy tools.
And, of course, community leaders – the mayor, city council members, and others – must work together rather than undermine one another.
With two business advisory councils having been disbanded in the wake of the Charlottesville incident, following an exodus of CEOs critical of Trump’s response, plans for an infrastructure advisory council have now also been dropped.
Thus although Palestinians comprise 37% of Jerusalem’s population, not a single Palestinian sits on the city council.
For example, when eastern Libyans recently announced the formation of an interim regional council as a first step toward declaring a federalist state, Abdel-Jalil alleged “the beginning of a conspiracy against Libya” in the brewing crisis between the country’s provinces.
The best way to preserve the councils’ independence over time would be through top-down monitoring and control at the eurozone level, for example through the establishment of a European Fiscal Council, which would be responsible for ensuring that every national council fulfills its mandate.
This bodes well for the resumption of talks, given that Pakistan played a leading role in facilitating the Taliban’s emergence and is now home to the Afghan Taliban’s ruling council, including its leader, Mullah Omar, along with the Pakistani Taliban.
That is why you need an independent fiscal council to administer it, just as you need an independent central bank to pursue an inflation-targeting monetary rule.
Agreeing on the composition of such a council for Europe would be hard, but no harder than it was to agree on the makeup of the ECB’s board.
The country will be unable to avoid tyranny unless it is willing to respect the minimal democratic guarantees provided by the constitution, such as a supreme court, an attorney general, a comptroller, and an electoral council appointed with two-thirds of the National Assembly’s support.
Bennett is religious and the former head of the West Bank settlers’ council, but he is also young, articulate, a successful high-tech entrepreneur, and a former combat officer – a combination that attracted both radical right-wing voters and young, urban, secular support.
Have the electoral council “elect” a “constituent assembly” of patriots, while gutting the opposition by dividing its leadership and creating a fake opposition group.
The council would offer a take-it-or-leave-it proposal to the participating countries on the allocation of Blue Bonds for the coming year.
Although the UN and my country recognize the value of forests, both ecologically and economically, such recommendations are not strong enough to stop my local council from voting “yes” to deforestation.
In the executive branch, the council of ministers is balanced among Christians and Muslims in order to encourage, indeed force, cooperation and to avoid the risk of domination the fear of oppression by one group.
The constitutional reforms implemented in 2013, among other things, expanded the executive’s authority and created a new state council, stacked with Fidesz members, to regulate the media.
"We do not need to ask the security council in order to become a state.
Defeat prompted Klaus and Zeman to try to and gain control over Czech TV by packing its council of overseers with their sympathizers.
The ten-year plan was prepared in six months and debated for another six months in more than 200 public meetings before being approved by the city council in 2002.
The creation of an independent fiscal council to vet official budgetary projections would also help in meeting fiscal targets.
The most effective initiatives, the council observed, often arise from partnerships between government and the private sector.
The committee that he tasked with determining the best approach recommended training and organizing electronic journalists; creating a council to address grievances; and establishing an official but voluntary registry of Web-site owners, where anyone seeking to lodge a complaint – or initiate a lawsuit – could find out whom to address.
Yet in Jerusalem, King and the local version of his party won two seats in the 30-seat city council.
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