Sentences with phrase «for member states on»

The European Commission has recently published a series of recommendations for Member States on how to better work together towards better direct tax and VAT collection for national budgets.

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In the same speech, Macron proposed the idea of a multi-speed Europe, where certain European countries agreeing on a specific reform should go ahead without waiting for other member states.

«We respect, and naturally we demand respect, for our country,» he said in an emotional speech to members of the Italian community in Munich, the first stage of a state visit that includes talks with Merkel in Berlin on Thursday.

France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

«The major eurozone member states can not agree now on what's needed to pay for the smaller states,» says Anand Menon, professor of European politics at King's College.

BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission met on Wednesday to agree proposals for a bigger new multi-year budget that will trigger battles among member states over how to fill the funding gap left by Britain's exit next year.

Instead, the political regime for controlling trade in the industry has been a quota system on imports, maintained by such western countries as Canada, the United States and European Union members.

The federal and state members for Fremantle, Carmen Lawrence and Jim McGinty respectively, have met with Fremantle Mayor Peter Tagliaferri to explore possible alternatives to the proposed $ 200 million Victoria Quay redevelopment on Fremantle Harbour.

«I call on the president and our nation's military leaders to re-focus their efforts on improving health care and other services for our service members and veterans and ensuring the security, freedom, and prosperity of the United States and its allies.

The Paris - based group, which counts Switzerland among its 35 member states, on Tuesday issued findings from a year - long review of the Alpine country that has long been associated with shady financial transactions and as a haven for clandestine deal - making.

But the wider aim is for the regulation to harmonize as much as possible data protection rules across all Member States to reduce the regulatory burden on digital businesses trading around the bloc.

HOUSTON, April 25 An international arbitration court has ordered Venezuela's state - run oil company PDVSA to pay ConocoPhillips $ 2.04 billion for early dissolution of two joint ventures for producing oil in the OPEC - member country, the U.S. firm said on Wednesday.

GENEVA Russia and China are asking U.N. member states to back a draft statement expressing «unwavering support» for the Iran nuclear deal, a senior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday, in a bid to put pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump not to withdraw from it.

AWEA Wind Power on Capitol Hill is a rare opportunity for AWEA members and others who want to help advance wind energy to participate in advocacy training and then put that training to work to educate legislators and their staff on the wind industry's top policy initiatives at both the state and federal level.

As the federal government places a renewed emphasis on climate action, now is the time for B.C. to be articulating its next steps,» the team members» letter states.

The IMF analysis states that «the dramatic deterioration in [Greece's] debt sustainability points to the need for debt relief on a scale that would need to go well beyond what has been under consideration to date — and what has been proposed by the ESM [the European stability mechanism ie by eurozone member states]».

Mr. Faught is the voting member for the state of Oklahoma for the North American Securities Administrators Association and serves on the standing Legal Services Committee.

Duggan, at the same news conference, took issue with Rhodes» concern that it is a possible conflict of interest for the mayor and a member of the city council to have a seat on a nine - member, state - created oversight board for a post-bankruptcy Detroit.

Mid-decade activism by CalPERS, for example, reportedly was «fueled partly by the political ambitions of Phil Angelides, California's state treasurer and a CalPERS board member,» who planned on running for governor of California in 2006.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

Michael Anthony Peroutka and David Whitney, who are vying for the same seat on the Anne Arundel County Council, are members of the League of the South, an organization whose stated goal is the secession of Southern states.Peroutka also believes elected...

NCIA and its members will continue to call on Congress to provide even further clarity for financial institutions serving the industry, but today's guidance clears the way for banks to accept state - legal cannabis businesses as clients.

A former aide to a California legislator sued the state Senate on Thursday, alleging it failed to accommodate her emotional disabilities following what she said was a sexual assault by an Assembly staff member, and instead wrongly fired her for «pre-textual minor» work performance issues.

He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and New York State Society of CPA's, and previously served on the Finance Committee for the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York.

«For every e-sports company, it would all of a sudden be a battle royale with every state with casinos and Native American tribes,» some of which operate casinos on tribal land to provide employment and revenue for their government and their tribe membeFor every e-sports company, it would all of a sudden be a battle royale with every state with casinos and Native American tribes,» some of which operate casinos on tribal land to provide employment and revenue for their government and their tribe membefor their government and their tribe members.

She is on the Board of Directors for the Center for an Urban Future, Advisory Board of L'Oreal's Women in Digital Initiative, member of Mayor DeBlasio's Broadband Taskforce, and former Access to Capital Committee member of the US Secretary of State Clinton Women's Leadership Council.

Inland Real Estate Acquisitions, LLC relies on its vast experience garnered through more than 3,500 transactions across 49 states totaling more than $ 45 billion for member companies of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc..

In addition to Mr. Levitt, the other founding members of the Advisory Board are: Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States and head of the General Accounting Office (GAO) for 15 years; and Professor Lucian Bebchuk, a Director of the Harvard Law School's Program on Corporate Governance.

Comparable treatment can be found in Europe, where EU member states exempt virtual currencies from taxation as a result of the Court of Justice of the European Union's ruling on October 22, 2015 stating that the exchange of traditional currency for Bitcoin virtual currency (and vice versa) is exempt from value added tax in the EU.

The world's four largest states — the United States, Russia, China, and India — have not signed on as members of the court and can not be relied upon for help in apprehending those the court instates — the United States, Russia, China, and India — have not signed on as members of the court and can not be relied upon for help in apprehending those the court inStates, Russia, China, and India — have not signed on as members of the court and can not be relied upon for help in apprehending those the court indicts.

He reported sarcastically that «there» were some members [at the Constitutional Convention] so unfashionable as to think that a belief of the existence of a Deity, and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism» (IV: 642) This chapter also includes excerpts from state constitutions that imposed religious tests on government officers (Delaware, for example.

The crude video, linked to Coptic activists in the United States, prompted the 57 - member Organization of Islamic Cooperation to revive its demand for a UN ban on the defamation of religion (after dropping its decade - long effort last year).

Thomas added that the sentence was «clearly issued on a punitive rather than on a legal basis» and said: «The constant harassment of members of the Christian community ought not to be occurring in a country where the constitution not only recognises Christianity, but also states that no - one should be molested or taken to task simply for holding a religious belief.

Stating that their bylaws were created in 1970 when they only had members who celebrated Sabbath on Sunday is no excuse for not changing it when their members» beliefs had changed.

Unfortunately, I have been «stripped, whipped, tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail» by my own family members for simply STATING that if I found out, or «heard a whisper of a finger being laid on my niece» who was going to stay with my abuser and his enabler, I «would go to the authorities and this time I would and legally could have him put in jail.»

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

It is the latter that is legally binding on all member States, and it has not insisted on legislation for either abortion or same - sex marriage — in fact, it has been careful not to do so.

Of course, being the church as you are, you don't have to pay for gigantic buildings, state - of - the - art sound systems, 17 pastoral staff members, and carefully groomed landscaping on a 150 acres of tax - free church property.

The report shows a sort of tortured desire for some kind of good, some kind of affirmation of human dignity: Wonderfully, it calls on Member States to «implement policies and measures aimed at preventing people from having abortions for social or economic reasons and providing support to mothers and couples in difficulty.»

Discussions between Member - States began after the UN Secretariat issued its «Concept Note on a Strengthened Architecture for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women» on August 1, 2007.

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

Reflecting, even briefly, on the state of affairs which might evoke this universal love in the human heart, a love so often vainly dreamed of, but which now leaves the fields of Utopia to reveal itself as both possible and necessary, we are brought to the following conclusion: that for men upon earth, all the earth, to learn to love one another, it is not enough that they should know themselves to be members of one and the same thing; in «planetizing» themselves they must acquire the consciousness, without losing themselves, of becoming one and the same person.

In other words, to state it negatively [in my own words], membership in the church is not predicated on a person's meeting of certain physical and psychological conditions extraneous to the foundational confession of faith; and no - one is barred a priori from consideration for ordered ministry who is a member of the church.

Leith Anderson, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Leith Anderson is the President of the National Association of Evangelicals, an organization formed to facilitate Christian unity, public witness and cooperative ministry among evangelical denominations, congregations, educational institutions and service agencies in the United States.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

I'm living in a different state than my family members and won't be attending synagogue tomorrow (sadly, I'll be at work)... but I plan on making this tomorrow evening to get in the spirit while I reflect on what an awesome year it's been, and contemplate my hopes and goals for the next.

Although it is high time to impose an immediate ban on the three insecticides clothianidine, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam, the Member States are pushing for a decision

Twenty - one member state agricultural ministers have urged the Commission not to cut agri budgets and called for extra emergency funds to help counter the Russian embargo on European food imports.

We call on the European Commission to propose to member states a ban on glyphosate, to reform the pesticide approval procedure, and to set EU - wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use.We call for the ban of glyphosate - based herbicides, exposure... more

In 2009, member states adopted the ASEAN Integrated Food Security Framework and the Strategic Plan of Action on ASEAN Food Security, for which IRRI was tasked to propose a Rice Action Plan.