She stressed that EU funding was "extremely important" for many member states, faced with high unemployment and weak growth.
While many Member States have their own taping requirements, which can apply to fixed lines as well as mobile phones, regimes differ significantly across the European Union (EU).
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Thanks to the measures taken by the Secretariat and the timely payment of contributions by many Member States, our financial situation looks better than we feared, said the Director-General, who also underscored the importance of the Emergency Fund.
It is a significant uplift at a time when many other member states have been frantically stuffing their hands down the back of the sofa to find the cash just to pay their existing subscriptions.
This ideal is a far cry from reality for many UNESCO member states and hence UNESCO-UNEVOC gives priority in its work to those with the greatest need: developing nations, economies in transition and those in a post-conflict situation.
In effect it would lay out a path whereby Europe would become more integrated in many areas while leaving veto rights with member states in such matters as foreign policy, taxation and defense--and Europeans with a voice in making those decisions.
Many in Brussels and among the more integrationist member states believe Britain secured an irritatingly favourable deal in June.
For the first time, this treaty allows member states to leave the EU and many think the UK may have to leave if it ends up as the only country to reject the European constitution.
Historically, it takes many revision of the same question before self-interested member states can agree on a compromise!
It will therefore gladden many a commissioner's heart to hear that the member states have failed to get clean away with their latest intergovernmental hustle.
Representatives at the meeting in Paris also highlighted the importance of broadening the range of contributions by UNESCO Member States, with one country stressing that many streams produced a river.
Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said it would protect personal data more effectively than the many "ad hoc" agreements between the US and various EU member states.
The WTO situation is complicated by the fact that on many trade issues the EU has sole competence to negotiate for the fifteen member states.
Europe Minister David Lidington said the convention remained a "crucially important" document, but argued that the court was hearing too many cases and was too ready to challenge the decisions of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.
For many years UNESCO and IFLA have cooperated closely in developing information capacities of UNESCO Member States, in particular in the field of libraries, including information services with a broad scope of projects ranging for example from "Guidelines for Digitization" to "Information Literacy", and from "Preserving the African Documentary Heritage" to "Public and School Libraries in the Caribbean".
The narrow-miss in the Draft Outcome Document was, however, only illustrative of the determination of the U.N. bureaucracy, many member nations and their world government supporters to eviscerate the sovereignty of nations like the United States and supplant it with a world governing mechanism vested in the United Nations and funded by involuntary global taxes.
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Member States are involved actively in all aspects of the Conference preparations mainly through CIGEPS but also through many bilateral consultations.
It is disliked by many but it is the commission's task to be mean to a lot of people, be it member states (infringement procedures), undertakings (competition procedures) or the Council itself (withholding undesirable legislative initiatives).
Many nominations reflect cronyism, not legal expertise and the European Court's rulings are binding on all member states.
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