Most of them come down to a rejection of majority voting in particular policy areas.
Within these fields, there were defined policy areas that the Assembly could legislate on.
The EU responded, in December 2006, by freezing accession talks in eight policy areas.
It would expand the policy areas subject to qualified majority voting (QMV), rather than unanimity.
Amsterdam greatly extends the policy areas to which co-decision applies, crucially including social policy.
Its second stage is under way, looking at whether powers in more policy areas should be devolved.
We also agree on the need for a common approach to measure progress against previous commitments in all policy areas.
In its second phase, the commission is now considering whether powers over more policy areas should be devolved to Wales.
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On specific policy areas, Ms Alexander advocated more personalised service in the NHS and a renewed emphasis on basic skills in education.
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Their work has covered several policy areas, including environmental taxation, the politics of genetically-modified food, and the effectiveness of global environmental agreements.
Employment Commissioner Laszlo Andor told MEPs that the four bodies are vital in delivering European policies in employment and social policy areas.
Voters will surely judge them in a number of policy areas, but none are more important than their stance on the dollar.
There are still a number of policy areas that are completely controlled by the British government, including constitutional affairs, defence, and foreign affairs.
Education, workforce and community development are probably the largest policy areas in the country and have been for at least my entire adult life.
At internal meetings, he indicated the policy areas that were important to him, but he seldom got involved in the details of implementing them.
"There are people in the Tory Party who have many different views on all kinds of policy areas - Europe, for example, " she said.
And there is little patience in Brussels for the UK's desire to both preserve its influence in the two-tier EU and repatriate several policy areas.
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So we should continue to work with the government on those policy areas where we agree and where a cross-party, tripartite approach to long-term change makes particular sense.
These policy areas include health, education, transport and the environment.
On balance, developments since Pittsburgh suggest that a continued and more determined effort across all policy areas is required to meet the objectives set out when we established the Framework.
The House of Commons Treasury select committee complained last week that Mr Brown's Treasury is exerting too much influence over policy areas which are properly the business of other departments.
EU's powers may be modest compared with the federalists' wish-list, and countries retain a veto in over 40 policy areas, against some 153 provisions to be decided by majority vote.
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The community summit connected senior government officials from diverse policy areas with local Hispanic leaders, business owners, and community advocates to discuss issues critical to the South Florida Latino community.
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U.S. taxpayers are likely to encounter a multi-billion dollar annual cost in additional defense and foreign assistance spending should the next Administration fail to secure alliance cooperation in these policy areas.
"There are many other rather competitive economies in Europe, like Germany, or Sweden, or Finland, which share all those policy areas, and they haven't harmed our competitiveness, " Mr. Katainen said Wednesday.
As a deputy minister in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), he has six policy areas to oversee, which range from global warming to the troubles of Toyota, the carmaker.
And on Mr Emanuel's watch the Republicans have bested the president on several key policy areas, including the lifting of the ban on openly-gay military personnel and legislation to limit carbon emissions.
The EU Treaty would also expand the policy areas subject to "qualified majority voting" - rather than allowing all 27 member states a veto - and establish an EU high representative for foreign affairs.
And he suggested that departmental select committees might draw on their expertise in policy areas to draft amendments to bills, which could be moved on the floor of the House by a representative of the committee.
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This is linked to the second big thing that supporters praise about Lisbon: a substantial increase in the number of policy areas where the European Parliament has an equal (or nearly equal) say to the council through co-decision.
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