It is not the lack of a high representative or Council president, but a chronic lack of troops and helicopters that explains the woeful inadequacy of the European contribution to the conflict in Afghanistan.
Moreover, following a ruling last year by the Constitutional Council, a French president is immune from all legal inquiry while in office.
The agreement stipulates that their organisations will have 80 delegates each at a 465-member national conference which will carry the peace process forward, choose a 13-man council to elect a president and set up a transitional government.
Eurocrats in Brussels like to portray the rotating presidency as largely redundant now there is a permanent European Council president.
The 15-member council voted unanimously for a statement by the president of the Security Council that also demands that North Korea make no more launches.
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The army said it has handed most of its executive powers to Mr. Ganzouri and his newly appointed cabinet, but demonstrators have demanded that SCAF yield all of its power to a civilian president or council.
He will preside over both sets of meetings, though the French do not want this to be a precedent: a future president of the European Council just might hail from a non-euro country, and, horror, preside over euro-zone business.
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In addition, he announced creation of a President's Council on Bioethics that will consider scientific and ethical considerations as the research proceeds.
Considering that a unanimous vote is required to pass a Security Council resolution, the president had good reason to doubt that such an action would succeed.
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"It seems pretty clear that the intent here is probably a performance pay system, " said Sandi Jacobs, a vice president with National Council on Teacher Quality, which advocates for tougher teacher evaluations.
"We are convinced that we need to act without delay, " the two leaders wrote in a joint letter to European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, adding that the new treaty was needed by March.
As a result, the Security Council postponed a meeting planned for next week on the tensions, the council's president, Vietnamese ambassador Le Luong Minh, said Thursday.
Rather than endorse one vision or another, the two leaders compromised by plumping for both: a head of the European Council elected by heads of government and a commission president elected by the European Parliament.
One of the blacks, Lawrence A. Bell III, was the youngish president of the city council and seemed a good prospect.
"The number of financial-education resources to choose from is overwhelmingly large, " said a report in January from the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability, a panel of experts in financial services, consumer protection and education.
It would also establish a new post of president of the European Council - the grouping of EU states' leaders - and a high representative for foreign affairs.
David A. Harris, president of the National Jewish Democratic Council, pointed to a study released this summer that did a deeper analysis of 2008 exit polls and concluded Mr. Obama likely took 74% of their votes, not the 78% exit polls showed.
Along with her work as a fashion designer, Von Furstenberg is also President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, a position she accepted in 2006.
It now has a permanent president of the European Council (representing national governments) and it is creating its own diplomatic service, which will need high-security premises.
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Now, Mr Bolton works for a president who supports Security Council expansion (at least to take in Japan, if not other claimants such as Germany, India and Brazil).
Given that President Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, it is perhaps convenient that Mr Dumas's Constitutional Council has ruled that a sitting president cannot be investigated.
In a hearing Friday before the New Orleans City Council, the president of Entergy's New Orleans utility division repeatedly blamed a faulty device and said it was "premature" to levy blame.
But Churkin drew a rebuke from other Security Council members, including its current president, after he questioned the objectivity of a top U.N. official who briefed ambassadors on the conflict in Georgia.
Baroness Ashton said it was not for her to recommend recognition, but that it was an issue for the president of the European Parliament and for the European Council, a stance that was criticised by MEPs - including vice president Giovanni Pittella.
The U.S. stopped blocking Libyan efforts to join United Nations committees, and in 2008 Libya served for a month as president of the Security Council.
Mr. BARRY ERWIN (President, Council for a Better Louisiana): I think we've gotten away from a lot of that actual corruption at the top level, at the state level with the governor and that type of thing.
Fixing European budgets remains a messy, bare-knuckled fight, but Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, will argue that he delivered a deal.
"Roger Federer really led the way, " said Eric Butorac, a doubles player and vice president of the council.
The creation of a permanent "President" of the European Council (which brings together the heads of state and government of all 27 member states) was intended to provide leadership and strategic direction.
Assuming that is right, expect to see a big increase in appeals to the one bit of the European machine where unanimity will remain the rule: the European Council, which gathers together the 27 national leaders of the EU. Under Lisbon the European Council is to gain a semi-permanent president, to replace the system of rotating presidencies.
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