• The Lisbon Treaty paves the way for limited co-operation and defence policy between those member states that wish to do so, however British Conservative MEP Charles Tannock raised concerns over how this could impact on existing agreements with the USA and NATO.

    BBC: Security and Defence Committee

  • There is an inherent tension between a technical operation to repair monetary policy transmission channels in the eurozone and a heavily conditional aid program aimed mainly at two countries which are already resisting its conditions.

    CNN: Draghi's "conditionality" gamble

  • Mr Cameron's visit came as First Minister Jack McConnell travelled to London to endorse a partnership agreement with Tony Blair on policy co-operation.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Tory leader attacks Union debate

  • Moreover, the technicalities of policy co-operation will not be simple.

    ECONOMIST: Why non-Europeans should care about EMU

  • In principle, November's agreement paves the way for co-operation on other areas of policy, such as European defence and security, where Lib Dems feel that Mr Blair has anyway stolen some of their best ideas.

    ECONOMIST: Why Paddy will miss Peter most

  • Adrian Gray, who oversaw the Bush 2004 voter-contact operation and is now a policy analyst for a New York investment firm, makes the point that as of Tuesday, 530, 813 Ohio Democrats had voted early or had requested or cast an absentee ballot.

    WSJ: Rove: Sifting the Numbers for a Winner

  • "We will not take funds that might allow a government to use a humanitarian operation as an instrument of foreign policy, thereby increasing the chances of war or prolonging it once it starts, " said Oxfam International Executive Director Jeremy Hobbs.

    BBC: Aid agencies' race against time

  • These include a more coherent EU approach to foreign policy and greater co-operation in defence.

    ECONOMIST: Britain's European problem

  • The first is his policy of closer co-operation with the Liberal Democrats, with the hint that this may even lead to eventual merger.

    ECONOMIST: The Labour Party

  • The Welsh government said the policy was no longer in operation and the legal advice relating to it did not have a "direct impact" on other policies offered to Welsh residents, such as free bus passes and support for students.

    BBC: Lawyers warned about free entry risk at historic sites

  • But Mr Fox's policy ideas about extending co-operation often sound vague and unrealistic.

    ECONOMIST: Fox and Bush, for richer, for poorer

  • But although there is a certain amount of co-operation, particularly with El Salvador, American policy tends to make the problem worse for its neighbours.

    ECONOMIST: Criminal gangs in the Americas

  • He resigned from GOPAC on June 1st of 1993 to take over the operation and management of the course through the Washington Policy Group.

    CNN: AllPolitics - Ethics Transcript

  • Norway signed up to a plethora of other EU agreements beyond the EEA, covering borders, immigration, foreign policy, agriculture, police co-operation and much else.

    BBC: Non-EU Norway 'almost as integrated in union as UK'

  • Last Thursday, the European Elections Bill received the Royal Assent and, on the same day we re-affirmed and expanded 'constructive opposition' to include co-operation with the government on a Common European Foreign and Security Policy.

    BBC: Paddy Ashdown's letter of resignation

  • An Iraqi war might thus put America back into its unilateralist box, which would not help it in the wider war against terror, and might complicate several of its other foreign-policy objectives, such as winning Russian co-operation for missile defences.

    ECONOMIST: Dealing with Iraq

  • This is not just because he knows that the Democrats' programme is modest and popular, but also because he now needs the Democrats' co-operation if he is to amass any sort of domestic-policy legacy in the 746 days he will have left when Ms Pelosi takes up the gavel.

    ECONOMIST: America's new Congress

  • The policy was part of a strategy to promote co-operation with authorities which have taken an increasingly fierce line with tobacco firms.

    BBC: BAT targets 'low-risk' cigarettes

  • This will help to fund our treasury and help to pay for community infrastructure, the operation of federal and state departments, all government projects, and policy developments.

    FORBES: The Perils Of A Cashless Society

  • The World Food Programme warns that the policy could risk the official UN food aid programme - Operation Lifeline Sudan, which has been distributing food around Sudan for the last ten years.

    BBC: Sudan's decades of war

  • Its biggest hammer is a policy that limits foreign multinationals to 50% ownership of any manufacturing operation in the country.

    FORBES: Thanks, Now Move Over

  • One signatory described him as a "true believer", who was unlikely to change his view of policy on Iraq or on the importance of his close co-operation with the current US administration.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Diplomats' scathing letter to Blair

  • The minutes also revealed that though only three members dissented from the Operation Twist decision, Chairman Ben Bernanke is facing pressure from colleagues who want even stronger policy action, meaning another round of quantitative easing.

    FORBES: Split In Bernanke's Fed Widens, QE3 On Deck, FOMC Minutes Show

  • In particular, observers look for Fed officials to discuss what to do when the program known as Operation Twist ends, as well as to discuss setting numerical targets to signal how long policy-setters will keep the target federal funds rate at essentially zero.

    FORBES: Deep Discussions But No Action Expected At Two-Day FOMC Meeting

  • His concerns included "whether the Bas fleet will remain under the control of Bas and not be merged with the NOC fleet, and whether Bas will continue to be an integrated operation carrying out a substantial research programme as well a providing the presence in Antarctica, policy advice to government, and wide-ranging scientific collaboration".

    BBC: Glacier, Antarctic (Image: BAS)

  • Now, that operation comes during the same week that the United States Senate is planning to debate U.S. policy in Iraq.

    NPR: Congress Debates Iraq, Bush Readies for EU Trip

  • The monetary expansion following an open-market operation involves adjustments by banks and the public. (To find out more, see Formulating Monetary Policy.) The bank in which the original check from the Fed is deposited now has a reserve ratio that may be too high.

    FORBES: How Has The Fed Evolved?

  • They're not the only committee going walkabout - the Home Affairs Committee is in Miami and then Bogota, looking at drugs policy and the Business Innovation and Skills Committee is in Sheffield meeting apprentices and looking at co-operation between universities and hi-tech companies.

    BBC: Week ahead in Parliament

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