The role the IMF is playing in the so-called Euro debt crisis, though, which has engulfed peripheral nations Ireland, Portugal, and Greece, and is threatening to spread to Spain and maybe Italy, has put pressure on the board to give the job to an European.
But the ephemera of politics and dogma fade into the background as the director fiercely aided by his lead actor, Vincent Gallo creates a sort of feral cinema, in which a captured combatant, beaten and jailed and enduring rendition to an unnamed European country, manages to escape.
It would be politically much more acceptable to delegate this task to an independent European body like the European Central Bank than to relinquish the right to set fiscal policy.
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It hopes to do better in an election to the European Parliament next June, for which the whole country will count as a single constituency.
And what more can you do to promote an accelerated European economic recovery?
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Is your willingness to lend half of your cash to European banks worth an extra 0.10% per year?
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Before Copenhagen, according to an analysis by the European Climate Foundation (ECF), a not-for-profit organisation devoted to climate policy, these commitments added up to an annual reduction of 3.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared with business as usual, by 2020.
That's followed by a debate on the fund for European aid to the most deprived - an EU issue referred to the full House by the European Scrutiny Select Committee.
It may take up to two years before the European Court comes to an opinion.
Finland--an "innovation leader, " according to the European Innovation Scoreboard, an annual research study on innovation in E.
In her 2002 book, Statecraft, she suggested the European single currency was an attempt to create a "European super state" and would fail "economically, politically and socially".
The report, written by Romanian centre-right MEP Sebastian Bodu, urges the European Commission to come up with an EU-wide code of conduct to be followed by major European companies.
To their credit, the Europeans laid a foundation for acting and they have all the elements they need for success here to create an enhanced rescue facility, to strengthen European banks, to chart a sustainable path for Greece, and to confront the structural issues that are at the heart of the current crisis.
The shift was announced in an open letter to Kronen Zeitung, an anti-European tabloid.
The pesticide legislation, which will ban the use of certain toxic chemicals on farms, originated back in July 2006, when the European Commission sent an initial legislative proposal to the European Parliament for a first reading.
The aim of the coalition government is now to make sure that the "very irresponsible approach to spending within the European Union is brought to an end, " he said.
The decision by the Commission is subject to an opinion from the European Parliament.
That sounds like an answer to European demands to be given a bigger role around the world.
Traditionally, the top posts at the World Bank and the IMF have gone to an American and a European, respectively.
The need for international agreement cannot be used as an excuse to prevent European countries, including the UK, from pressing ahead.
The French leader described his visit as a vanguard of French economic involvement in rebuilding Iraq and an attempt to strengthen European ties.
And foreign-policy views seem less clearly defined than Labour's before 1997, when Mr Blair held ambitions to make Britain an unambiguously European nation.
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At some point in the merry round of summits, there is also likely to be an American-European declaration on non-proliferation and on combating terrorism.
Germany's Kirch and Italy's Mediaset agreed to form an alliance in European television, which they hope Canal Plus of France, and others, will join.
Peter Bone urged an amendment to the European Union Bill, which currently promises a UK referendum whenever there is a big change to EU treaties.
The leaflet, entitled British Beef Returns, details the huge changes the industry has gone through in an attempt to satisfy European preconditions for re-entering the export market.
But, as an outsider to the European political scene, I do want to try and get under their skin and ask the questions they would not normally get asked.
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