Brazil has always resisted creating a Mercosur disputes-settlement body, seeing this as a loss of sovereignty.
Surrendering their veto over patents would be a substantial loss of sovereignty for the EU's members.
That step involves a loss of sovereignty and the Irish will be able to debate it.
Their rulers are fully aware that economic integration with Russia means a loss of sovereignty and property.
Naturally, in this area, as in all others, no loss of sovereignty is contemplated by either of our governments.
Unlike previous treaty changes, this one envisaged no loss of sovereignty for Britain.
But I can separate loss of sovereignty with the the economic benefits.
Irish officials insisted publicly that a bailout wasn't on the table: Political leaders feared a voter backlash at the loss of sovereignty a bailout would entail.
In order to get close to selling this idea to the German public, the weaker countries would have to agree to a massive loss of sovereignty.
Effective regulation of a worldwide market will necessarily involve a big loss of sovereignty by major nations, and national leaders are loth to relinquish their freedom to act independently.
Suddenly the president is talking of the high cost of French labour as a major problem, of the 57% of GDP spent by the state as excessive and wasteful, and of of the loss of sovereignty caused by hyper-debt.
This group completes the trifecta of destruction that is the Obama foreign policy team, encouraging the loss of our sovereignty and unwavering support of the U.N.
But rather than openly argue for tax harmonization and other policies that would lead to higher taxes and a loss of fiscal sovereignty, they think they will have more luck expanding the power of government by employing demagoguery against the big, bad, multinational companies and small, low-tax jurisdictions.
The loss of monetary sovereignty has hobbled first Germany and, more recently, Italy.
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As for the United States, it respects the convention in practice but has not ratified it, because some senators fear a loss of American sovereignty.
Essentially, the price of debt-sharing through deeper economic union is loss of national economic sovereignty.
With no SDLP MEP any more to fill John Hume's shoes, all three of Northern Ireland's representatives are sceptical to a differing degree, each concerned about the loss of either British or Irish sovereignty.
The preservation of sovereignty is not worth this loss of leverage.
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