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Moreover, a leading economic group was established to enforce bureaucratic compliance, as was a national security council (similar to that in the United States) to coordinate foreign policy.
She rewarded “aspirational” members of the working class by selling off council houses at discounted prices.
For under the Maastricht treaty, Germany has only one vote on the European central bank’s governing council, meaning it will have no more power than France, Austria, or for that matter, tiny Luxembourg.
Increasing tensions between the euro countries on economic policy are likely, as are growing rifts within the ECB governing council in the coming years.
Once this sizeable swath of voters begins participating in municipal elections – which they have so far avoided, lest they be viewed as legitimizing Israeli rule – control of the city council is likely to pass to a Palestinian majority.
Prisoners held in Israeli jails were granted 20 seats in the enlarged 100-member revolutionary council.
EU policymakers (the ECB, the Commission, the majority in the Council) generally have a narrowly defined "mission": price stability, enforcing the single market, holding prices of agricultural commodities stable.
Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang – the top two officials in China’s new governing council (the Standing Committee of the Politburo) – are both well educated, well traveled, and sophisticated thinkers who bring a wealth of experience to the many challenges that China faces.
As a street leader who was elected as the head of the Bir Zeit University student council, he gained legitimacy by being chosen by his peers.
A worldwide assembly chooses Fatah’s 100-member revolutionary council, which in turn elects a 20-member central committee, where most of the power struggle will take place.
Many young street leaders will insist on an emergency meeting of the revolutionary council, or even holding the sixth general assembly (which would be the first since 1988).
The most crucial questions concern reform of the al Shura (consultative council).
Just a glance at an ordinary EU meeting room suffices to show that a council of 25-plus members is more talk show than decision-making body.
The amended constitution expands the constitutional court and the supreme council of judges and prosecutors.
Indeed, the opposition parties have already organized a transitional council to take Saleh’s place.
The cumbersome text created a “presidency council” tasked with appointing a national unity government and an advisory council of ex-GNC members.
As chief of state, Sanussi appointed a prime minister and a council of ministers, accountable to both the king and the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of a bicameral legislature.
Parts of the opposition speak of a transitional “presidential council.”
With the US seeking to line up nine votes in the security council in favor of declaring Iraq in "material breach" of Security Council resolution 1441, Mexico's stance toward the US will become vital in the coming days and weeks.
The ECB’s governing council has been highly vocal on this issue since the start of the crisis.
May has announced the creation of a £2 billion ($2.62 billion) fund for building more council housing.
Promisingly, the United Automobile Workers union recently announced that, as it continues to push for collective bargaining rights, it is also cooperating with management to form a works council in the German-owned Volkswagen plant in Tennessee.
After all, eurozone monetary policy is the product of joint decision-making within the ECB governing council, where Germany's influence is strong.
Hopes for widespread cures were high when the Human Genome Project – financed by a private medical charity, a UK research council, and the US National Institutes of Health – was completed ten years ago.
In principle, an independent and respected advisory council could also force governments to acknowledge the hidden costs of government guarantees and off-balance sheet debts.
The remit of Sweden’s fiscal council is particularly broad, giving it a mandate not only to forecast, but also to look more deeply at the motivations and consequences of government policy.
In principle, an independent fiscal council could have provided invaluable help during the financial crisis.
In fact, Suthep has called for a “people’s council,” comprised of 400 unbiased representatives.
The council would replace the Senate after the upper house nominates a new leader to be appointed by the King, thus obviating the need for elections in the near future.
The move – which some legal scholars, including former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter, hold was unnecessary – was intended to ensure that France’s constitutional council or a European jurisdiction could not overturn it.
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