Word: powers
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...poll numbers are an eloquent testimony to the power of silence. After all, Netanyahu (like his pal Newt Gingrich) took himself off the scene entirely after his humiliating defeat by Barak only 18 months ago, and his support has grown largely on a wave of anxiety over Barak's handling of the Palestinian uprising. But he won't be able to translate that support into a comeback victory without the help of the legislature, or perhaps even the court. Netanyahu needs parliament to either overturn the special law under which Barak called the election, or else to proceed quickly with...
...capped their marathon summit in Nice may actually make the European Union even more unwieldy than it already is. Negotiators from E.U. member states agreed on a series of compromises early Monday in an 18-hour negotiating session following four days of talks. Member states clashed bitterly over how power will be apportioned in the Union, now that it plans to increase its membership from 15 to 28 states...
...Opposition by the smaller states as well as Britain also managed to maintain the principle of veto power for any member state in many key areas of policy. Until now, E.U. decisions have had to be reached by consensus among the 15 members, creating an automatic veto power for any dissenter. That principle has been abolished in some 39 areas of decision-making, but it persists in many key areas such as taxation and social policy. And, of course, even in areas where it has been replaced by majority vote, the summit agreed on the principle of a "qualified majority...
...votes as Spain, based on the equivalence in population size), and the summit also indicated that the door will be open to some of them as early as 2003. Among the current member states, some of the smaller nations were happy at holding back the designs on greater power of some of the larger ones, while others were concerned about expanding the Union while its decision-making remains so unwieldy. Britain was happy to retain the veto principle of policy areas it holds dear, while Germany managed to advance its agenda for reducing the scope of veto, and also managed...
...military that Pinochet commanded from his coup of 1973 until eight years after he'd relinquished power is naturally deeply unhappy about the judicial pursuit of its erstwhile chief. And they've made their unhappiness known by pressuring President Ricardo Lagos into convening the National Security Council, a body created by Pinochet to deal with national crises, in which the military presence is dominant. Still, the council is constitutionally toothless, and Lagos has insisted that he'll hold the meeting only after the high court's ruling, so as to avoid interference in the judicial process. The sad truth...