At last December's summit, shortly before the talks collapsed, Mr Blair won acceptance of his demand that member countries keep their vetoes on such issues as tax, social security and judicial co-operation.

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Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, who chaired the summit, accepted Mr Blair's insistence that member countries keep their vetoes on such issues as tax, social security and judicial co-operation, instead of introducing majority voting as the draft constitution had proposed.

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In June, 2008 he signed a set of judicial reforms to improve national security.

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President Obama and members of the United States Senate would be well advised to heed General Meese's counsel and evaluate any candidate for the Supreme Court against the Jackson standard of judicial restraint with respect to national security matters.

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Subsequently in the early 1990s the European Union, which included the Coal and Steel and Economic Communities, was established in recognition that the modest goals of the 1950s were expanding to include issues such as police and judicial policy as well as foreign and security policy.

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He told them that he would focus on security, the economy and the judicial system in his bid to rebuild Somalia.

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In February, Iraq's top judicial committee accused al-Hashimi's security detail of carrying out 150 attacks against security forces and civilians between 2005 and 2011.

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Last month, Iraq's top judicial committee accused Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi's security detail of carrying out 150 attacks against security forces and civilians between 2005 and 2011.

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In each case the judge will be asked to examine allegations of collusion between the security forces and the killers and to decide whether those claims merit a full judicial inquiry.

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