He should not make promises he can't keep on such an important policy area.
In addition, they can't work for the Obama team in a policy area in which they've lobbied during the last year.
He proposes a grand bargain: swap Britain's veto over European integration for the right to opt out of any EU policy area.
So we will pursue this policy area with that approach in mind.
But more needed to be done, so the education minister Catherine Ashton was making sure that minority achievement was addressed in every policy area, says the government.
Only the Europeans could arrange a summit (we are very good at those) aimed at one policy area and then deliver a hair brained scheme in another area.
The Liberal Democrats, too, had committed themselves to a pilot badger cull, so there wasn't much scope for disagreement between the coalition partners in this particular policy area.
In the past, governments have tended to measure how well they are doing in any particular policy area by counting the amount of money they are spending on it.
But he thought the key battle would be to overturn the acquis, the long-standing doctrine that once the EU acquired competence over a policy area, it was never relinquished.
Voting figures for the EU Council - the grouping of ministers, according to policy area - show that the UK government voted against or abstained 38 times out of 373.
Mr. NORMAN ORNSTEIN (Political Analyst, American Enterprise Institute): In the end he's going to make a judgment about what's more important: one campaign promise, or achieving something grand in a major policy area.
Each area of this complex world is a unique system in and of itself, and it's hard enough to truly understand and impact, say, agriculture policy, no less every single policy area in government.
But Sir Howard, the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority, said "political reality" had to be taken into account, and there was a "strong case" for building consensus in the crucial policy area.
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Had she paid closer attention, she says she would've adjusted her firm's policy in this area accordingly.
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Jon Sopel: And I'm joined now by David Miliband, the Cabinet Minister responsible for policy in this area.
Monetary policy is the area in which clueless conservatives are the most clueless.
Other than monetary policy, no area of economic discussion is more confused than the one about government spending and budget deficits.
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The Democratic tactic is a risky stance to take on energy policy, an area more frequently motivated by geography than party politics.
He drew sharp contrasts with McCain on national security and foreign policy, an area where, polls suggest, voters seem to prefer the Republican.
This new agreement does not extend to documents covered exclusively by EU foreign and security policy, an area in which the European Parliament has limited powers.
"As euro area policy has often been behind the curve, perceptions of strong disagreement among members states could have negative consequences on confidence and exacerbate fragmentation, " he wrote.
But the Washington rumour mill has not been forecasting that John Taylor, the treasury under-secretary directly responsible for policy in this area, is about to pack his bags as well.
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He said he had had no differences with President Bush over the objectives of U.S. policy in the area, but that the perception of a conflict made it difficult for him to be effective in the job.
The suit on Myfortic is a significant expansion of the Anti-Kickback Statute that is inconsistent with law and policy in this area and the theory in this case threatens to undermine pharmaceutical company discounting practices that benefit both consumers and payers, including the government.
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Over the past decade there has been growing international agreement that the system for linking science and policy in the area of biodiversity and ecosystem services needed further improvement, resulting ultimately in the process for creating an Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
One is the impact of such a tenuous recovery on monetary policy in the euro area.
The irony is that this is one area of policy where some deep thinking is going on within Labour.
EU's stability and growth pact, fiscal policy in the euro area will be slightly contractionary in both 2003 and 2004.
This is a great opportunity for the public to help shape policy in an important area of science, health, and environmental stewardship.
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