Finally, there is more committee scrutiny by the MEPs before a common position is agreed on.
And they have sought expert legal advice for their common position, which is due in May.
In 2002, for instance, they stitched up a common position on the CAP that everyone else accepted.
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This time round, the countries should be able to agree on a common position for public consumption, avoiding another unseemly row.
For one thing, even the crisis in Georgia has not been enough to shock the EU into a common position on Russia.
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Another reality that had to be faced was that Labour's left had no common position on several key areas, including Europe and proportional representation.
However we've been working to see if we can move forward in a common position with the international community in support of a political transition within Syria.
The representative of Mali said, had his delegation been present, it would have abstained from the vote, in accordance with the common position of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
There was then a full year of committee hearings at the Council of Ministers, with officials from the different member states, including Defra in the UK, battling it out to reach a "common position".
Germany and France usually try to present a common position but that looks less easy this time, with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, making separate speeches this week.
After holding a three-way telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Jacques Chirac to work out a common position on this issue, Mr Schroeder said it was important that "as far as possible" unity in the Security Council should be maintained.
But Labour's white paper, outlining the devolution proposals, says that the British and Scottish governments will have to agree to a common position before they turn up in Brussels, which simply makes public the debate that has always taken place in private between the Scottish secretary and his cabinet colleagues.
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They must craft a common EU position to take to the Copenhagen climate-change conference in December.
This week, the African Union is hosting a summit at which we hope African Heads of State will adopt a common African position on child marriage.
And I want to commend all of you for acting collectively through the National Governors Association to develop common academic standards that will better position our students for success.
Bess, in sports jargon, is playing out of position -- an increasingly common dynamic as the Army scrambles to fill roles in Iraq.
That is not a position that represents courage, leadership or common sense.
He reckons pension funds and endowments will be sellers of common stocks for some time to come as they position their portfolios to be more risk averse.
Another common reply is (3) climb atop the blades and position your center of gravity over the axis.
The second-most-common factor was greed, in that they had a winning position, but stuck with it for too long and in some cases, they ended up with no profit at all.
LPs that Bain interviewed think it is simple common sense that the two sides should be able to rally around the ILPA position.
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But there is enough common ground, especially if each side is willing to move off its starting position, to achieve significant deficit reduction.
The firm unites its disparate businesses through leveraging a common core of semiconductor components, a field in which it holds a strong position.
She may be single, married, a mother, or childless but the common denominator is a desire to learn how to live her life from a position of financial strength.
However, all modern smartphones have Wi-Fi built in, and wireless networks are common enough in indoor spaces that an app could easily scan for known access points and calculate your position using trilateration.
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