Like Abraham, he is supranational, the forebear of both the French and the Germans.
Yet neither side would be likely to accept the implicit supranational authority this would entail.
In the case of LOST, such a supranational arrangement is particularly enabled by the Treaty's sweeping environmental obligations.
Sure, some power is shifting towards the financial markets, multinational corporations and supranational bodies such as the European Union.
That will be decided by one supranational European central bank, based in Frankfurt.
When Americans sought legitimacy for their actions abroad, they sought it not from supranational institutions but from their own principles.
The union will thus continue as a mainly inter-governmental organisation with supranational attributes, rather than turning into a full federation.
Simon Jenkins in The Guardian said "closer European union... was an attempt by a supranational economic authority to supersede national democracy".
As a supranational body designed to overcome national jealousies, the EU is vulnerable to a backlash in one or other member.
The Germans, in contrast, had wanted to give more power to the president of the European Commission, the EU's supranational executive.
In the medium term, NATO offers the only serious supranational security structure.
It neither sets up a new constitutional order nor a supranational state.
The later members joined ASEAN precisely because it had no supranational authority.
For many Estonians, surrendering hard-won sovereignty to another supranational body grates too.
They will insist on the structural processes for effective austerity measures and oversight with the goal being to gain supranational authority in Brussels.
It has no supranational institution, such as the European Commission, and its member governments are reluctant to interfere in each other's internal affairs.
Structure has been partially addressed by the new focus of the EFSF and ESM along with the supranational issues addressed by the fiscal compact.
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It remains to be seen how well national risk regulators work with supranational bodies such as the European Union's systemic-risk council and the FSB.
Belgium is a supranational state, constructed by the European powers in 1830 and made up of two different nations, Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia.
Europe's nation-states are being challenged from above, by the growing powers of the supranational European Union, but also from below, by increasingly assertive regions.
The EU is an elite, supranational project, and only indirectly democratic.
No rule should be imposed at a global level or supranational level that cannot be more or equally effectively set at the national or local level.
The supranational issues that I discussed in Eurozone Crisis Solutions have been partially addressed by the recent accords of the EU community towards fiscal regulation.
" Even more, it is the grand vision of this group of caudillos, whom have an affinity for the nationalization of industry, to create a "supranational company.
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People have become used to the anonymity of the Internet, and despite the irritation over data privacy its supranational nature has lulled everyone into a false sense of security.
There is only one flaw in this rosy vision of a parliament growing in power and confidence as it assumes its role at the centre of a supranational democracy.
And it does so in a unique manner: by creating a political system that brings us together across national borders in a supranational community, through the sharing of sovereignty.
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Governments seemed to be conceding that there might be advantages in adopting some common policies, but were unwilling to deal with these matters in the classic, partly supranational European framework.
The cleverly designed concept called for European nations to consolidate their coal and steel industries into a supranational community to be governed by a high authority independent of any country's government.
Whether it will be more supranational (as a single currency might suggest) or more inter-governmental (as the arrival of fiercely independent new members might foreshadow) is as yet hard to say.
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