Sentences with phrase «votes in the parliament take»

«We want to point out that in any discussion with our partners we have to start from a fundamental constitutional principle, the same in the US and Romania, according to which the debates, decisions and votes in the Parliament take place in the name of the sovereignty of the people and can not be the object of any form of pressure,» reads the quoted communiqué issued by the heads of the two Chambers.

Not exact matches

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

«This government is taking the toughest line in these budget negotiations of any government since we joined the European Union,» Cameron told parliament ahead of a non-binding vote on the EU budget talks.

«This government is taking the toughest line in these budget negotiations of any government since we joined the European Union,» Cameron told parliament ahead of the vote.

Sunday's vote is being closely - watched in Europe to see if populist, anti-establishment parties such as M5S could take a governing position in the Italian parliament.

The vote was taken in the Bundestag in Berlin during the last session of the German parliament before federal elections in September.

Press release 15 June 2012 The vote on the European Parliament's Report on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on Food for infants & young children and for special medical purposes took place on 14 June in Strasbourg http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sed/speeches.do http://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/750 European...

The vote in the European Parliament Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee took place this morning with MEPs voting for one of the three Objections tabled by European Parliament by Green MEP Keith Taylor.

The vote on the European Parliament's Report on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on Food for infants & young children and for special medical purposes took place on 14 June in Strasbourg

This means that the British government - whoever they may be at the time - will always be happy with the fact that Sinn Féin don't take their seats - this time around, that's 7 opposing votes they don't have to worry about in parliament.

Dozens of opposition leaders, including influential members of parliament were imprisoned before the bill that underlies and enables this referendum was introduced, and thus unable to vote or take part in the discussion; for example a dozen MPs from the HDP, including the entire party leadership are currently in prison.

While the «Brexiteers» now hold power, they must convince their Conservative colleagues in Parliament to vote for the Brexit agreement that May will present for a «take it or leave it» vote following international negotiations.

Survation's canvas for the Daily Record suggested Ukip might take six per cent of the list vote, which, according to Weber Shandwick's Scotland Votes seat predicting tool would see the party with a sizeable presence in the Scottish parliament.

These findings will be cause for concern to the major British parties — especially the Conservatives — and will mean the results of the forthcoming European Parliament elections will be taken especially seriously when looking ahead to the likely vote shares of the parties in 2015.

The 66 Labour MPs who voted with the Government on the main motion to support «taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria» represented well under a third of the 231 current Labour members of Parliament.

«We have a good record on consulting parliament - having a vote in parliament if we decide to take any military action and we're conscious of the views of parliament on these matters and the need to be consulted,» foreign secretary William Hague said before the recall announcement was made.

As it happens, personally, I've always been in favour of fox hunting and we maintain our commitment — we had a commitment previously — as a Conservative Party to allow a free vote and that would allow parliament to take a decision on this.

They took a smaller share of the vote than at the previous election, but they managed to more than double their representation in parliament, [31] winning 46 seats, [28] through tactical voting and concentrating resources in winnable seats.

Former teacher Adam Walker takes over after party's vote collapses and Griffin loses only seat in European parliament

In the European Parliament election, 2014, the Sweden Democrats gained 2 seats with 9.67 % of the vote, up 6.4 %, and the Left Party took one seat with 6.3 % of the vote.

The Scottish Parliament was created after a referendum on devolution took place on 11 September 1997 in which 74.3 % of those who voted approved the idea.

This vote will take the form of a resolution in both houses of parliament and will cover both the withdrawal agreement and the terms for our future relationship,» Davis said.

Today, Michael Fabricant takes up the issue in the Telegraph, calling for a new Act of Union to provide for English votes on English laws in Parliament (thanks are due to General Boles for the illustration of the Lichfield MP as St George).

The same concern about Returning Officers wanting to delay the counting of votes has now arisen with regard to the Scottish Parliament elections taking place in May, and Labour tabled an amendment to the Scotland Bill in the Commons on Monday seeking to give Returning Officers the same duty with respect to Holyrood elections as for Westminster elections.

But Mr Farage said he was surprised at such comments, claiming Mr Clegg had only taken part in 22 % of votes in the House of Commons this parliament.

More than 120 MPs have signed an early day motion put by former environment minister Michael Meacher saying that no decision on Trident should be taken until «the fullest possible debate» had taken place «and a deciding vote held in parliament».

The vote came as a reminder to David Cameron of the political gamble he is taking, after the prime minister spent hours in the Commons Chamber listening to backbench MPs» concerns and trying to persuade parliament of the case for action.

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The construction process takes roughly five years and, with the firm likely to get energy online by the end of 2017, this means the NPS would have to be voted on by parliament in the next two years.

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For elections to the European Parliament in 2014, the vote in the region took place on 22 May 2014, with the results announced on 25 May 2014.

It seems to be taken for granted by a lot of commentators that changing to the alternative vote (AV) will be a move towards proportional representation - resulting in more hung parliaments and coalition governments.

On the one hand, May and her ministers have consistently taken the line that parliament should play only a minimal role in the Article 50 process: even the recent concession of a parliamentary vote on the final deal was less than it seemed, given that it will be a choice between a deal that parliament didn't like and no deal at all.

Labour will force a vote on the controversial European Arrest Warrant after a debate on the topic failed to take place in parliament yesterday.

He told Good Morning Britain that Ukip had taken votes from all parties, but had «cost Conservatives seats in Parliament,» putting Ed Miliband closer to Number 10.

However the most important decision taken by the PLP was the resounding vote in favour of electing the chief whip at the start of each Parliament.

While the Labour and Lib Dem vote in the last Parliament delayed the new review, it did not reverse the changes in the law and the new review will still take place under the new rules.

Ed Miliband asked David Cameron if he would be voting yes or no in the referendum set to take place in the early part of the next parliament, as promised by the PM if the Conservatives won the general election expected in 2015.

In 2007, the Holyrood and Scottish council elections took place on the same day, and saw the introduction of a new design of ballot paper for the parliament vote and a new voting system for the council seats.

On Wednesday a majority of the the EU Parliament voted for new EU - wide rules regarding nanocosmetics to take effect in 2012.

The authors do recognize, however, that the UK's voting rights and its representation in the European Parliament would have to be adjusted to take account of their reduced population.

To enable the referendum to finally take place, the European Union Referendum Act 2015 was voted and passed by Parliament in Westminster and received Royal Assent on 17 December 2015.

, but whatever happens in the end, and regardless of whether the coalition loses its nerve, given Mr. Harper's unilateral delay of the confidence vote (contrary to his readiness to hold «confidence» votes in the last Parliament, taking advantage of the Liberals» reluctance to go to the polls), and whether the Liberal leadership candidates can indeed work together, the last week or so has been a wonderful lesson — and reminder — about our system of government and its constitutional cleverness.