For some, political intervention has supplanted an overvalued currency as the biggest risk in Brazil.
Yet he conceded at the weekend meeting that political intervention in the euro's exchange-rate policy should happen only rarely.
Lord Mandelson urged the European Commission "to ensure a commercially-based outcome rather than one determined by political intervention and subsidies".
In recent years, the most blatant political intervention in the standard-setting process has been over the stock options that many companies grant to their employees.
It is much more important that there should be a truly independent European central bank, able to pursue anti-inflationary policies without fear of political intervention.
It is Mr Fox's first major political intervention since he resigned from the cabinet four months ago over his links to his friend, lobbyist Adam Werritty.
But Home Secretary Theresa May was said to be very unhappy after Sir Hugh rejected suggestions that the restoration of calm after the riots in England last week was due to political intervention, says the BBC's Danny Shaw.
Like them, he was against political and military intervention in European affairs, but not in the Caribbean, in Central or South America, or in the Pacific.
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The promotion of social welfare does not include direct or indirect participation or intervention in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office.
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At home, President Deby Itno faces political pressure to justify an intervention half a continent away, criticism that some analysts suspect has goaded the government into exaggerating it's kills.
What you require to make any sense of an intervention is a political context in which you can build local coherence, you can get by in - from different elements, different factions, different regional voices.
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Instead, it simply suggests that domestic political will is a necessary precondition for intervention missions and should not be overlooked.
But political pressure is growing for more direct intervention.
The UN had previously approved plans to send some 3, 000 African troops to Mali to recapture the north if no political solution could be found, but that intervention was not expected to happen until September.
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U.S. officials have advocated a political transition in Syria, but Russia opposes foreign intervention in the violence-torn nation.
But that might not be such a bad thing: ideally, Thailand will develop a political system robust enough to regulate itself, without intervention from the monarch.
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Notwithstanding the criticism of Mr Obama's record - which is about style more than substance - Mr Romney recognises, as the president does, that there is little political support at the moment for another costly military intervention.
He says he believes that America has lost its humanity, that the nation needs to take a firm political stance, although he's not advocating military intervention.
This "would raise the political costs of the French bombing campaign, dragging the intervention into urban warfare that neither France, the U.S. nor Algeria would be willing to lead with boots on the ground, and leaving Mali's fractious military exposed, " according to Phillippe de Pontet of Eurasia Group.
Investors seemed less concerned by the risks of digging up minerals, more by potential political obstacles in the wake of the Canadian government's intervention to block BHP Billiton's hostile takeover of Potash Corporation.
It criticises Western military intervention and America's "casino capitalism" and "political and economic hegemony".
If we peer through the clouds of government intervention, massive hedge fund bets, high taxes, lackluster consumer confidence, political uncertainty, and various other market distortions, we should be able to see the true market at work.
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Mitchell is now chairman of the International Crisis Group (ICG), a potent collection of business, political and media leaders from around the world whose aim is to prevent world crises through early intervention.
No foreign intervention can hope to achieve any long-term benefits if it cannot get to grips with the underlying political and social mechanism of this vast region.
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