"The issue of the Borough is that the central government has a planning policy that you should not have developments out of town which would have an adverse affect on the town centre, " he said.
And for good measure he threw in criticism of flip-flops in central-government policy, notably an imminent about-turn on tax exemptions for imported machinery.
Stakeholder pensions are a central pillar of the government's welfare policy.
Because it does not control its own interest rates or money printing (monetary policy), the Greek government is at the mercy of the European Central Bank.
This would mean genuine, American-style federalism, not the German kind, where the central government makes policy and the states carry out the administration of it.
The Iraqi government has seemingly moved closer to the central tenet of his foreign policy.
Instead of allowing central bureaucrats, construction lobbies, doctors and postmasters to hold government policy hostage, most voters would prefer the government to pay attention to the core issues pensions, health care, schools, police and so on that they have been worrying about, and which politicians in other democracies do at least pretend to address.
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This demand is a centerpiece of the U.S. government's controversial new "bi-partisan" policy toward Central America.
Aided by an oil-fueled economic boom, Kurds have consolidated their autonomy, increased their leverage against the central government in Baghdad and are pursuing an independent foreign policy often at odds with that of Iraq.
In August, 2003, the scandal prompted the central government to abolish the system, an astonishing case of the Chinese press influencing national policy.
Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the ACLU, said in a blog post the paper revealed "both the recklessness of the government's central claim and the deficiencies in the government's defense" of its drone strike policy.
Perhaps as early as next year, after the completion of a nationwide census in November, the central government will permit large-scale experiments liberalizing the policy, which generally limits couples to a single child.
After the first policy-setting meeting under Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, the central bank said it will more than double its holdings of Japanese government bonds by 2014.
Mr Kuroda, who has long been a critic of the central bank's policies, is a supporter of Mr Abe's plan to ease monetary policy and increase government spending.
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