Sentences with phrase «most european governments»

The US and most European governments already have strict regulations on mercury emissions; however, a recent report from the United Nations Environmental Program reveals that mercury emissions are increasing around the world.
Japan and most European governments exercise the Precautionary Principle to gaurd the health of their people.
In reference to its efforts to grapple with economic catastrophe, he contended that the EU is «learning by doing», with most European governments pursuing «inappropriate methods» for damage control.
If we look at data from the close of June 1, 2015, to the close of June 8, 2015, yields on most European government bond markets significantly widened (while bond prices went down).

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Since then the U.K. government has published several position papers but Verhofstadt — like many in Brussels — was largely dismissive of their utility, since «most of them were in fact papers concerning the future relationship between U.K. and the European Union.»
The U.K. government published a few position papers, but according to Guy Verhofstadt, «most of them were in fact papers concerning the future relationship between U.K. and the European Union»
And given Germany's unwillingness to take the most basic measures, like boosting government spending or encouraging domestic wage increases, that would help iron out some of the imbalances in the European economy, the situation in Greece will likely only force Italians to wonder why it is tethering itself to such an uncooperative partner.
The British government on Friday announced that it would drop the color burgundy, favored by most European Union states, in favor of blue, the color once seen on British travel documents.
LONDON — Talks about forming a coalition government in Germany collapsed on Sunday, causing political instability in the most powerful country in the European Union.
Instead, most of the credit seems to go to the European Central Bank, which in late December under its new president, Mario Draghi, quietly began providing emergency loans to European banks — hundreds of billions of dollars of almost interest - free capital that the banks have used to come to the rescue of their national governments.
Most European firms will fall into line whatever the policy of their own governments since it is dangerous to defy the U.S. Treasury.
European and US financial institutions again dominated issuance in Australia, while supranationals and government agencies accounted for most of the offshore Australian dollar issuance.
Growth in most of the eurozone has remained tepid and reliant on continued central bank stimulus, though the European Central Bank's (ECB's) bond - purchasing program has been hampered by a scarcity of eligible bonds, as issuance from member governments is restricted by their austerity - driven policies.
The United States is the most important export country for German rolled steel products and the second-most important destination for the European Union, after Turkey, according to official government statistics.
In the new imperial division of labor on display in Afghanistan, the Americans do most of the fighting while the Europeans, who have no ideological problems with big government but don't like fighting, are only too happy to take on the soft sides of nation - building: roads, schools, sanitation and water.
Regardless of what other countries think of our government, most Europeans and Asians like Americans and have no hatred for us.
In most eastern European countries Communist governments ended the churches» involvement in education and often made any instruction in the faith, even at home, very difficult.
«Most extraordinary of all, the two great achievements of British diplomacy of the last decades in Europe, supported by Governments both Labour and Conservative, — namely the Single Market and European Enlargement — are now apparently the two things we most regret and want to rid ourselvesMost extraordinary of all, the two great achievements of British diplomacy of the last decades in Europe, supported by Governments both Labour and Conservative, — namely the Single Market and European Enlargement — are now apparently the two things we most regret and want to rid ourselvesmost regret and want to rid ourselves of!
I would say a European country that supports him would be best, they have some of the most stable governments in the world (excluding parts of eastern Europe).
In our report we analyse the experience of other European countries, which have parliaments without a majority party most of the time, and we identify six rules that are in practice used to guide who should be asked to form a government.
Most governments accept the judgements of the European institutions.
The demands of the British government, which were only presented to European partners in December, are fairly technical and will take some time to be met, even if most of them are achievable.
In the face of the devastating floods of recent weeks that have affected areas of Mid and West Wales, North Wales and much of the North of England, the Welsh Lib Dems are calling on the UK Government to make the most of European Union flood relief money available to them.
«Our position was that any evidence session would be most useful once the German presidency had set out their timetable for discussions leading up to the European Council and once the government had drawn up a set of policy options in response which would provide the basis for a discussion at an evidence session.
Next month, the government will embark on the second and most crucial phase of negotiations to leave the European Union to set the terms of Britain's relationship with the EU for the long - term.
Global banks will probably lose their current legal rights to provide services in the European Union after Brexit, the U.K.'s trade minister said in the most detailed outline yet of the government's thinking.
Experienced prison governors and officials, past and present bishops to prisons and chief inspectors, electoral commissioners, legal and constitutional experts and most other European governments believe people in prison should be able exercise their civic responsibility.
The so - called Norwegian Government scholarships are open to young researchers from most European countries; only other Scandinavian countries (Sweden and Denmark) are excluded.
Most of the largest, often government, funders — for example, US National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Energy, HHMI, and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)-- sponsor early - career fellowships.
The London - based Science Media Centre relayed a series of comments coming mostly from the United Kingdom — which, unlike most other European countries, has a long tradition of having science advisers in government.
CERs are the most heavily traded carbon offset credit in the world, used mostly by European companies to keep their greenhouse gas emissions levels beneath a government - mandated cap.
But this doesn't mean parliamentarians should sit back for the next 5 years, they add: The Parliament should challenge the European Commission to push governments to invest more in research and innovation, in particular in southern and Eastern European countries that have suffered most from the economic crisis.
Taking 2010 as the starting point, the government pledges to almost double the representation of Ph.D. - holders among the population age 25 to 34 by 2020 and increase research employment from 11.8 % to 16 %; raise to 10 % the share of publicly - funded Spanish papers ranked among the top 5 % of the most cited publications globally; increase Spain's share of European Union research funds, including a 90 % increase in the number of so - called Starting Grants from the European Research Council; boost the number of patent applications by 50 %; and raise the national percentage of innovative companies from 18.6 % to 25 %.
In March 2000, European heads of governments and of states agreed in Lisbon that by 2010, the European Union (EU) should become «the most competitive and dynamic knowledge - based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.»
It's why there are, you know, that's why even if I do not feel that our government should not be controlling drugs and pharmaceuticals per se, you know it's the reason for President Bush I believe it was, who signed it, the anabolic steroid control act, in the process that really controlled a lot of these pro hormones from getting distributed willingly you know, over here in America because they can be so dangerous and most of them, if you're gonna order them you got ta go over to like world-pharma.org and order them from the European Union just because they're more available over there so if you wan na order like Andro or any of these pro hormones, something like that, usually you're gonna be getting it from Europe.
Even though Trotsky opposed Stalin, he did not find a welcome in most European countries whose governments feared that he would become a rallying point for local communists.
My presence in the Board as representative of one of the major EU associations would also provide Readium Foundation a strong support in the European market to achieve its goals, thanks to consolidated relations with the most relevant European institutions and government and a long lasting knowledge of the European publishing market and its technology.
I'm not sure this will have much affect on the ongoing European crisis since most of the European government debt is in euros.
European government bond markets are moving in tandem for the most part, despite conflicting inflation numbers.
The industry's top brass — including CEOs and directors of leading travel companies, government ministers and tourist board chiefs — all gathered to battle it out at the most important evening of the year in European travel and tourism.
When Passive House Plus told Prof Ürge - Vorsatz about a comment Passive House Institute director Prof Wolfgang Feist made in these pages a few years ago — that the most ambitious action on climate change was coming from city governments and the European Union, rather than from national governments — she agreed.
Having achieved the most lenient deal of all nations at Kyoto, and then repudiating it the Protocol, our Government is now gloating over the fact that some European countries are struggling to meet their much more onerous targets.
However, the new solar deal is being financed by a consortium of European private and state investors and is backed by a sovereign guarantee from the Government of Iran, most likely from most likely from Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization, as reported by PV Magazine.
Like most oceanic islands, the Galápagos have a history of increasing fishing pressure dating back to European whalers, and culminating in recent news of the Ecuadorian government seizing a Chinese fishing vessel with more than 6,000 sharks taken from protected waters around the islands.
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Most other governments, with Western European countries in the lead, demanded more aggressive action.
More recently, Neil has acted exclusively for government departments and agencies in work of this nature and has been involved in some of the most - high profile such cases including the Alexander Litvinenko inquest / inquiry, the Saudi arms trade litigation and a number of applications to European Court of Human Rights concerned with the bulk interception of communications and communications data.
However, most of these aspects are already enshrined in Canadian law, while others, such as patent term extensions for pharmaceuticals, are part of the recent Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, which is awaiting ratification by the Canadian and European governments.
He was instructed by the Government to defend what many regard as the most important public law case in decades: R (Miller) v Secretary of State for the European Union.
Many, if not most, European governments have bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with other countries.
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