The European Commission has warned that the bills on Hungary's central bank, the judiciary and data protection authority put those bodies' independence at risk.
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On the other hand, a central bank that neglected its duties to play fiscal watchdog could risk its independence.
Supporters of the UK coalition tend to stress the need for cross-border collaboration - a fairly obvious code for "this is not the moment to take the risk of independence".
But today I think that what is really at risk is the independence of humanitarian action.
Abandoning efforts to create energy independence puts our national security at risk as well.
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But it might also call into question organisations' independence and put the service at risk of government spending cuts.
The questions on the energy question, which is never far from the economic part of the independence debate, are how you assess both risk and return, and how much appetite for risk - both downside and upside - Scottish voters will have when they vote in September next year.
Speaking on the Business Scotland programme on BBC Radio Scotland, Mr Naish - who is also a head of real estate at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership in Edinburgh - stressed that the SPF was not against or for independence, but that political and economic uncertainty increases investment risk, and that equates to cost.
Cardiff Met has fought to maintain its independence, claiming the merger plan was high cost and high risk, and not backed by a proper business case.
We are not trying to remove their independence, but make sure a nurse knows when they are potentially at risk, and can go and help them.
What runs through them all are wide variations of risk and return, revolving around a range of uncertainties, some of which are well established in the independence debate, some of which are new, and many of which gain from intelligent illumination.
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