It&aposs possible that the national parliaments — and even regional parliaments — of EU member states will need to approve a deal before it can be concluded.
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The real test comes when the EU interferes in matters that parliaments care about—euro-zone bail-outs, for example, which are funded from the national treasuries which parliaments oversee.
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And the new parliaments will be superior in other ways.
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They're Parliaments, the cigarettes that Vinny's mom used to smoke.
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It is represented in all 16 of Germany's regional parliaments.
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Only 0.5% of MPs among Europe's parliaments are under 30.
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AfD has already muscled its way into five regional parliaments.
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The founders of democratic states created parliaments for a reason.
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This mechanism would be overseen by the different euro parliaments.
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The two parliaments have never before held a joint hearing.
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It should be intergovernmental, with national parliaments retaining their rights.
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Both eventually had leadership roles in their respective nations' parliaments.
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"These parliaments were built for old white grandfathers," said Trudeau.
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Across the Western world, parliaments are wrestling with similar questions.
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Facebook faces an "international grand committee" of parliaments in London.
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All parliaments are now able to approve by tomorrow at midnight.
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They want a deal by October so parliaments can ratify it.
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Today, it is represented in 28500 of Germany's 6900 state parliaments.
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Last week Facebook declined an invitation from five of these parliaments.
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In Europe, decisions like that have to pass through national parliaments.
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Technically, those lawmakers would be members of their respective national parliaments.
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" He said he did not support "schools being turned into parliaments.
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Kuwait and Bahrain's parliaments are elected and enjoy relatively more influence.
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The obstacle to this is the 2011 Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
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The move must still be ratified by both Macedonian and Greek parliaments.
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They are increasingly held to account in the press, parliaments and courts.
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Parliaments from Mexico to South Africa are debating reforms of their own.
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There are also plans for parliaments to suggest laws (a "green card").
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But national, and some regional, parliaments would still need to ratify it.
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Several of the EU's trade deals have been ratified by national parliaments.
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So are some who want a greater EU role for national parliaments.
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In March, the Alternative for Germany made it into three state parliaments.
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" She added: "We are trying to establish links with other European parliaments.
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Previous generations of women demanded entry to parliaments, churches, boardrooms and courts.
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European parliaments nearly blocked a deal with Canada last year over such issues.
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MEPs from non-euro countries might revert to being nominated by national parliaments.
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And ratification by all national and some regional parliaments would take longer still.
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The rules were also changed by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act of 2011.
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The Fixed-term Parliaments Act gives the government enormous power to survive rebellions.
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There can be checks on unaccountable leaders, including independently elected parliaments and presidents.
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It follows similar steps pressed in other parliaments, including France, Canada and Germany.
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An agreement between the countries' parliaments will establish a 100-member joint assembly.
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Its efforts are focused on parliaments and the foreign media more than governments.
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In facing down potential rebels, the Fixed-term Parliaments Act constrains Mrs May.
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It had failed repeatedly in previous parliaments to come up for a vote.
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He has admirers in the parliaments of France, the Netherlands, Germany and Japan.
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Parallel parliaments and governments have operated in Tripoli and the east since 2014.
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It will now be represented in nine of Germany's 16 federal state parliaments.
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In 2013 Mr Cameron called national parliaments the "true source" of democratic legitimacy.
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But leaders in democratic countries hold themselves accountable to their parliaments and publics.
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Chaos in Washington matched with tumult in the Mother of Parliaments, in London.
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Rwanda and Bolivia's Parliaments are predominantly female, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
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On average, just 22% of seats in parliaments worldwide are filled by women.
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Italy's record of hung parliaments has plagued decision-making and fueled political unrest.
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Some EU states are concerned that national parliaments remain involved in the process.
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Sexist remarks and sexual harassment are [also] being perpetuated by men inside parliaments.
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Thirteen African nations have parliaments with female membership at 30 percent or higher.
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The council's assembly is made up of lawmakers from the members' national parliaments.
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Silvana Koch-Mehrin, founder of the Women In Parliaments a Global Forum (WIP), a network of women lawmakers, said the number of women in parliaments may have increased but this has not translated into policy change or decision-making powers.
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However, it will then have to be ratified in the U.K. and European parliaments.
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One way of remedying this would be to increase the role of national parliaments.
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But referendums are impervious to negotiation; regional parliaments are answerable only to their voters.
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January 2019 - The EU and British parliaments must ratify the withdrawal treaty before Brexit.
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These days free-trade deals take years to negotiate and ratify in national parliaments.
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Once upon a time, hung parliaments were a rarity, but no more it seems.
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Long a rarity in British politics, hung parliaments appear to have become more frequent.
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And voluntary political-party gender quotas mean that women are well-represented in parliaments.
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National laws mean that parliaments in some countries, notably Germany, must grant their approval.
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The mother of parliaments is suffering the mother of all constitutional crises (see article).
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The Briton is due to testify before the Danish and European Parliaments next week.
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A mixed deal needs to be ratified by some 40 national and regional parliaments.
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"Parliaments need to address violence against women within and without their structures," Fillon says.
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It's also true that congresses and parliaments are not the only halls of power.
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Especially as the Great Depression took hold, parliaments and political parties seemed utterly ineffectual.
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IN A EUROPE of fragmented parliaments and thriving extremes, sometimes the centre still holds.
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There are increasingly more women represented in the world's parliaments, often in unexpected places.
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The agreement still requires the approval of both parliaments and a referendum in Macedonia.
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They will only be legally binding in a final text ratified by both parliaments.
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The deal must still be approved by both parliaments and in Macedonia by a referendum.
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Add sub-regional parliaments to a long cast of spoilers holding up regular EU business.
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Parliament could thus do what it wanted, including overturning what previous parliaments had thought good.
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In some state parliaments some MPs even refuse to shake hands with the party's representatives.
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But the threshold of 55% of parliaments means it will rarely, if ever, be used.
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"There's a big difference between the Left in the regional and federal parliaments," Senftleben said.
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A mixed deal requires the additional approval of national and, in some cases, regional parliaments.
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This is where another of Mr Cameron's ideas may help: more say for national parliaments.
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But only democratic institutions like Congress and parliaments have the power to spend money outright.
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" Those born abroad, Ms. Driscoll said, "have got their own governments, their own parliaments, whatever.
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There are also three Parliaments, 11 prime ministers, and as many regional and local governments.
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But his initial onslaughts against the "mother of Parliaments" have been rebuffed with laudable resolve.
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The next step is approval by two Parliaments, a tough hurdle (The New York Times).
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TRADE WARS; talk of impeachment; the spread of populist politicians and hung parliaments across Europe.
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The deal still requires ratification by both national parliaments and by a referendum in Skopje.
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The party's track record in regional parliaments suggests it'll be a disruptive force in proceedings.
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On average, 22% of seats in parliaments worldwide were filled by women as of last year.
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Jamaica still falls below the global average of 21.8 percent women in parliaments, the report said.
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Paying $70 to quit cable feels like smoking a pack of Parliaments to quit Marlboro Lights.
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At first glance, the meeting halls of Russia's and Botswana's parliaments could not look more different.
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From film sets, parliaments to businesses, revelations of sexual abuse have sent shockwaves around the world.
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Nor is ratification certain at the EU end, since national parliaments may each have a veto.
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Parliaments have passed laws making it a criminal offence for their countries' citizens to fight abroad.
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Vox has advocated a policy of "recentralization" — rewriting Spain's constitution to scrap regional autonomy and parliaments.
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A European Senate would be a parliament of parliaments, a place where different national positions clash.
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"In France, bistros are the parliaments of the people, and now they are closed," he said.
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The other two produced "hung Parliaments," with no party strong enough to govern on its own.
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Spain, Latvia, and Thailand, substantially increased the number of women in their parliaments, accelerating their scores.
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This polarization has fractured parliaments across Europe, creating political deadlock in countries like Italy and Spain.
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There's also a moment when Vince pokes fun of Paul for smoking Parliaments, a decidedly "feminine" cigarette.
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The case for more openness - to citizens and parliaments as well as markets - was at first straightforward.
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The AfD also has lawmakers in all but two of the regional parliaments in Germany's 16 states.
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In Britain we have had myriad assisted-dying bills in various parliaments over the last 15 years.
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CETA must be ratified by 38 regional and national EU parliaments before it can be implemented fully.
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Some of the subsequent mess rests on the back of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act of 2011.
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The agreement is agitating parliaments, sparking protests and splintering coalitions; Belgium's is on the verge of collapse.
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Rival parliaments in the east and west also claim legitimacy as the legislature for the entire country.
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Thousands of people, including members of all national parliaments, former laureates and university rectors, can make nominations.
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The call for accountability is growing, with representatives from 5 parliaments now meeting on the 27th pic.twitter.
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National parliaments in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands are far better at overseeing their governments' EU policies.
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Chungong said the IPU's role was to build bridges and it had strong ties with both parliaments.
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The membership must be approved by all 28 national governments or parliaments, including the United States Senate.
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Mr. Netanyahu welcomed an Egyptian initiative and proposed that he and Mr. Abbas address each other's parliaments.
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The government usually wins such votes by a large majority in parliaments packed with pro-government deputies.
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Full ratification requires votes in the parliaments of all 28 EU member nations, which could take years.
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The secular religion worshiped in the Western parliaments was globalization (or, in the European Union's case, Europeanization).
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The NPD was also represented in a number of state parliaments, but had too much in-fighting.
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The international parliaments have joined forces — forming a grand committee — to amp up the pressure on Facebook.
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Today the request has been reissued with an additional three parliaments on board — Brazil, Latvia and Singapore.
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Women now make up nearly 12 percent of Ukraine's legislature, a high proportion compared to previous parliaments.
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The accord must still pass a referendum in Macedonia and ratification in the parliaments of both countries.
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Since its founding in 2013, Alternative for Germany has managed to enter 13 of 20163 state parliaments.
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Some are activists, some are connected to politicians and work to lobby parliaments, plus everything in between.
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He said that it could get "messy" when parliaments decide whether to support a new trade deal.
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Neither of the two parties have any seats in the national or European parliaments at the moment.
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The study pointed out that the majority of parliaments didn't have mechanisms for women to speak out.
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Assuming the two sides then reach an agreement, the British and European parliaments must still approve it.
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But timing and the quirks of a law known as the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act roadblocked everything.
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If all goes well, the exit deal will then move to the EU and U.K. Parliaments for approval.
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It requires unanimity and approval by more than 30 European, national and regional parliaments, possibly after national referendums.
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The Tories worried about overriding the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, which requires a two-thirds majority of MPs.
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Now eight parliaments are demanding Zuckerberg answers for Facebook scandals More work for the policy and communications teams!
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"We understand that it is not possible to make yourself available to all parliaments," write Collins and Zimmer.
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And the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act makes it possible to vote against the government without precipitating an election.
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Scotland and Wales elected their regional parliaments less than a year ago; Scots had previously voted on independence.
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It remains deeply divided between factions based in the east and west that back rival governments and parliaments.
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Modern Africa's first taste of democracy came in the form of fledgling parliaments bestowed by departing colonial powers.
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More than a quarter of the current parliaments in Europe were elected in polls that were called early.
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This would have meant a tribunal with 14 of the 15 judges elected by Civic Platform–run parliaments.
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National parliaments are reckoned to have a greater feel for the weft and warp of citizens' political preferences.
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Expect to hear more about the role of parliaments as the EU desperately seeks new sources of legitimacy.
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In 1967, the Parliaments released "(I Just Wanna) Testify" on Revilot, one of Detroit's many independent soul labels.
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It will require ratification by both national parliaments and approval in a Macedonian referendum, which is not assured.
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In addition to the presidency, there are also three Parliaments, 11 prime ministers and as many local governments.
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Still, Vox won enough votes on Sunday to play a kingmaker role in some municipal and regional parliaments.
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This is the portion of female representation in national parliaments in the world, according to the United Nations.
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These unstable parliaments tend to last about two years but can actually be quite productive amid the chaos.
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In the state parliaments of Berlin and Brandenburg, for example, the two parties have voted together on legislation.
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The PiS government has called for a reversal of some EU powers, wanting more say for national parliaments.
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Intellectual energy has been sapped on campuses, in parliaments, and in what little is left of public discourse.
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And it didn't have to do so, thanks to something called the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act of 2011.
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The process of ratifying any trade deal with Britain by all national and some regional parliaments will be tortuous.
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The passport is supposed to come into effect after ratification by the parliaments of at least 15 African countries.
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The two sides have until March 2158, 2019, to reach an agreement and get it ratified by both parliaments.
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Indeed, many national parliaments have cast doubt on the European Parliament's democratic credentials, as has the German constitutional court.
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Mr Epp and Mr Borghetto analysed bills brought before the parliaments of nine European countries between 1941 and 2014.
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The draft as it stands also offers a "red card" for groups of national parliaments to block EU legislation.
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The average share of women in parliaments is a paltry 32%, albeit an improvement on 24% a decade ago.
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Its final implementation could take a few years, after all relevant national or regional parliaments have had their say.
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The past two elections produced hung parliaments and weak governments, and the same outcome seems inevitable this time around.
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"This will be led by ourselves but a number of other parliaments are likely to be represented," they continue.
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But even some data-privacy bills that have been introduced in African parliaments have been held up for years.
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In both contests a populist anti-immigrant party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), is likely to enter state parliaments.
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It is unclear why a Europe of feuding parliaments will be more popular or harmonious than the current one.
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The Parliaments had moved to Detroit and were becoming two intertwined acts, Parliament and Funkadelic, recording for different labels.
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The accord must be approved by Macedonians in a referendum as well as by the parliaments of both countries.
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Britain stands at number 39 in an international index charting women's representation in parliaments, below Rwanda, Cuba and Bolivia.
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Any upcoming deal on debt will also have to be approved by some European parliaments, including the German Bundestag.
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"What we need right now is designers in the Civil Service," members of Parliaments and "on boards of businesses."
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Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act two thirds of MPs (434) would have had to vote for the motion.
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This deal took seven years to negotiate and has yet to be fully ratified by national parliaments in Europe.
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The requirement that trade deals be approved by dozens of parliaments has been a sticking point in the past.
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When foreign parliaments consider such legislation, the U.S. Commerce Department should reach out and warn them of the implications.
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At the same time, European parliaments should step more carefully as they try to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Ireland joined Spain and a growing list of other euro zone countries with splintered parliaments when voters on Feb.
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The man who worked at the lobby's Hudson News used to let me charge Parliaments to my boss's account!
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That deal took seven years to negotiate and has yet to be fully ratified by national parliaments in Europe.
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London (CNN)Sexism, harassment and violence against women are widespread in European parliaments, according to a study published Tuesday.
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Cuba and Bolivia are the only other two countries that count more women than men in their parliaments. 4.
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Belgium agreed a deal with its regional parliaments on Thursday to approve a landmark EU-Canada free trade agreement.
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While previous Parliaments have counted 14 or more factions, what has changed is the relative size of the parties.
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Proportional systems often lead to hung parliaments, compelling winning parties to form unlikely coalitions and putting a strain on their ability to govern (It's worth noting that some countries with a first-past-the-post system like Canada have also experienced hung parliaments due to a high number of parties running for election).
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Ratification of the Mercosur accord by Europe's national parliaments will take up to two years and will not be easy.
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Since 2014, Libya has had two competing parliaments and governments, one based in Tripoli and the other in the east.
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Much like Mark Zuckerberg's recent testimonies before Congress and both UK and European parliaments, the video offers only vague generalizations.
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And whereas rowdy parliaments are common enough, an additional problem with India's is that its two houses meet only rarely.
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From 2014, Libya had two competing sets of parliaments and governments after the internationally recognized HOR relocated to the east.
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She smoked a pack of cigarettes a day (always Parliaments), and she was generous with her money and her time.
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Since 2014, the country has had two rival parliaments and governments, one based in Tripoli and one in the east.
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Three German state parliaments in Bavaria, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, have passed resolutions condemning the airline for its policy.
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Pizarro said he had lived in "safe houses" since then before coming to Europe to lobby the U.N. and parliaments.
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The fragmentation that has visited many of Europe's national parliaments in recent years will thus come to its international one.
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Fully 93% of Germans (and 64% of the party's voters) say they have not noticed its impact in state parliaments.
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The US government called for a "credible and independent investigation," a call echoed by various Asian parliaments in recent weeks.
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Two obvious villains, two easy solutions, and two movements far more common in European parliaments than in the White House.
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The imperial parliament ("Reichstag") sat permanently beginning in 1663 (Britain's "Mother of Parliaments" was permanently in session only decades later).
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The same might hold true for the devolved Parliaments of Wales, which supported Brexit, and Northern Ireland, which did not.
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This helps explain Europe's mania for referendums, which pose a greater threat to parliaments than anything the EU may do.
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But Warsaw has failed to garner enough support for amending the EU treaties to give greater weight to national parliaments.
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Under the 2011 Fixed-term Parliaments Act, this can be done only if two-thirds of MPs vote for it.
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Three years later, the party is the third largest in the federal parliament and sits in all regional parliaments, too.
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Since 2014 Libya has had two competing pairs of parliaments and governments, both backed by loose alliances of armed brigades.
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They boast of their own parliaments, budgets and local subsidy schemes, while even small municipalities can help get projects moving.
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Since 2014 Libya has had rival parliaments and governments, one set based in Tripoli and the other in the east.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The Scottish and Welsh governments said on Tuesday they will introduce bills into their parliaments aimed at keeping regional powers that come back from Brussels after Brexit, in a move that could complicate British plans to leave the EU. The bills are to be debated by the devolved parliaments in the coming days.
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"If we don't find a way with the UK to prevent this kind of dumping, the risk is we'll face huge difficulties in the next stage, when we will have to get agreement in 27 national parliaments, and even regional parliaments in some cases," he said, referring to the need for ratification by EU states.
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Her draft agreement will be voted on by the parliaments of the UK and the EU, and that's that, she's said.
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Politically, Libya is torn between two rival Parliaments — one in Tripoli in the west, the other in Tobruk in the east.
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There are three more or less neo-Nazi parties that are currently represented in European parliaments: in Slovakia, Greece, and Cyprus.
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This is to allow time for the U.K. and EU parliaments to approve the final deal negotiated between Brussels and London.
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The NOC and the central bank both fractured when rival governments and parliaments arose in Tripoli and eastern Libya in 2014.
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It may frighten the commission, but it does not exert the sort of control over governments that national parliaments aspire to.
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The reform was approved by the Catalan and national parliaments and by Catalans in a referendum (in which only 49% voted).
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From regional parliaments to national referendums and restive constitutional courts, numerous spoilers have been hindering what should be routine European business.
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Canada has plenty of experience of Parliaments in which no party has a majority, for example in 2004, 2006 and 2008.
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Women make up only around 15% of parliaments in these countries, and are underrepresented in management positions and on company boards.
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In the Mother of Parliaments democracy has blossomed for over 300 years without coups, revolution or civil war, Irish independence aside.
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The European and British parliaments must sign off on any Brexit agreement sealed by EU leaders for it to take effect.
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Suffice it to note that about a third of MPs in recent Indian parliaments have had pending criminal cases against them.
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And the Fixed-term Parliaments Act of 2011 makes it hard to label any vote, even on Brexit, a confidence matter.
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Low turnout and a dispute over the process led to the creation of rival parliaments in the east and the west.
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Canete said the notion that some parliaments might not ratify the accord is "a scenario I do not think is possible".
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The Fixed-term Parliaments Act of 2011 tore up long-established principles about what constituted a confidence vote in the government.
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It's a tale of ambition, nationalism, violence, technical innovation and economic transformation, playing out on grand avenues and in palatial parliaments.
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In a reversal of its initial position, the commission said an EU-Canada trade deal will be put to national parliaments.
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This corresponds to over 450,2023 workers – and their families – who could lose their livelihoods due to teens preferring Juuls over Parliaments.
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With seats in eight state parliaments, the party is expected to gain seats in the Bundestag, or national parliament, next year.
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The vote, to be made under the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, would require a two-thirds Commons majority of 434 MPs.
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The Belgium regional parliaments have to vote on the compromise, which the prime minister said was expected by Friday at midnight.
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But Klishas was cited on Friday as saying that every single one of Russia's 85 regional parliaments had now said yes.
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"The Federation Council (the upper house of parliament) has received the results of voting in all 85 regional parliaments," said Klishas.
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The bloc deals only with governments, not with parliaments or the public, and the European Union was eager to help Mrs.
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According to a United Nations report, in June 2016, women made up a meager 22.8 percent of seats in national parliaments.
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The mother of all Parliaments will not allow him to shut the #PeoplesParliament out of the biggest decision facing our country.
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The mother of all parliaments will not allow him to shut the #PeoplesParliament out of the biggest decision facing our country.
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A common theme of fascist propaganda was that parliaments were "talking-shops," where speechmaking and idle criticism made effective action impossible.
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Any deal must still be ratified by national and some regional parliaments across the European Union and by the Japanese Legislature.
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She's not afraid to speak up for what she believes in, even if she's talking to VIPs of parliaments and governments.
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Many of the proposals in the legislation have been discussed for years but had never made much headway in previous Parliaments.
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He added that the Commonwealth Secretariat worked closely with parliaments to encourage them "to become parliamentary human rights champions for equality".
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The Fixed-Term Parliaments Act made it so that Johnson needed two-thirds of lawmakers to agree to call an election.
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Both Greece and Spain were in recent years forced to hold second elections after the first Parliaments failed to form coalitions.
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It's the first tome to provide an overview of parliaments around the world that allows you to easily compare their plans.
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To reassure his junior partners that they would get a full five-year term in power -- and that the Conservatives wouldn't try to ditch them if they outstripped them in the polls midterm -- then-Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to pass the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, stipulating that Parliaments should last no more nor less than five years.
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"There's still quite a long way to go before either the European Parliament or indeed any of our national parliaments really can claim to be in a place where they are truly representative," said Sajjad Karim, a Briton whose parents emigrated from Pakistan to the UK. Karim served in the past three parliaments but was not reelected.
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The deal will also need to be approved by the two state parliaments and vetted by the EC. (Reporting by Christopher Spink)
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The AfCFTA came into force in May after clearing a key procedural hurdle and being ratified by the parliaments of 24 countries.
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The euro-zone debate may yet be derailed or diluted by restive parliaments in creditor countries battling ghosts of their own imagination.
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One obstacle is the 2011 Fixed-term Parliaments Act, which specifies that the next election will be held on May 7th 2020.
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Studies reveal that the vast majority of women in parliaments in Europe have been subjected to some form of gender-based violence!
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That would leave just about enough time for the necessary approval by both the British and the EU's parliaments before Brexit day.
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The current crop has an average age of 51, which makes it the oldest, by a whisker, of the past ten parliaments.
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"If this turns out to be insufficient, the UK's governments and parliaments should be ready to consider direct regulation," it also warns.
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The east-west division has split key institutions and produced a deadlock between the rump parliaments aligned with rival, shifting military factions.
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"As your letter states, it is not possible for Mr. Zuckerberg to be available to all Parliaments," the letter from Facebook reads.
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Hungary's chief prosecutor, Peter Polt, is also a former Fidesz member who was twice appointed to his post by Fidesz-dominated parliaments.
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A "red card" granting groups of national parliaments the right to block legislation, for example, gives Mr Cameron something to boast about.
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All agreed to give the EU's 28 national parliaments a "red card" whereby support from 55% of them could block EU laws.
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However, full implementation to include a contentious investment protection system will only follow after clearance by some 40 national and regional parliaments.
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Doug Kinsey, who opened the bar in 2012 with Johnny Nackley, often stalks the sidewalk out front, offering Parliaments to passing acquaintances.
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The Eurobarometer survey consistently finds that European citizens trust the EU more than their own parliaments (by 40% to 31%, in 2015).
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As leaders negotiating late-night deals in Brussels well know, parliaments can insert themselves effectively into European debates when they care to.
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Kuwait's government has signed an extradition treaty with the United Kingdom but the parliaments of both countries have yet to ratify it.
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The idea is to have a deal before that time, so that it can then be ratified in the different European parliaments.
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Doug Kinsey, who opened the bar in 220 with Johnny Nackley, often stalks the sidewalk out front, offering Parliaments to passing acquaintances.
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This legislation would give Johnson the power to dis-apply the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, which normally sets elections every five year.
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The United Nations has brokered a peace deal between the two rival parliaments, but a national unity government is nowhere near yet.
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A Labour Party source said it would not back Johnson's bid on Monday for an election under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act.
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As a result, the European Union has grown steadily more powerful, without the national parliaments — or their voters — acting as a check.
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The EU and Britain hope to clinch a deal later this year so parliaments on both sides can ratify it before Brexit.
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Besides the vote in Moscow, Russians also voted for the heads of 16 regions, as well as lawmakers for 13 regional parliaments.
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All laws and decisions would first go through an e-deliberation process before being debated in our city halls, parliaments or congresses.
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That motion, as set out by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, will require a two-thirds majority of the House of Commons.
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Parliaments and revenue agencies all over the world have done what Congress seems totally unable to do: They've made paying taxes easy.
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In 2014, rival parliaments and governments were set up in Tripoli and eastern Libya, both backed by loose alliances of armed groups.
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The package, agreed by euro zone finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg last week, must be approved by national parliaments in several countries.
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Merkel also said a future EMF would be organized on an intergovernmental basis and national parliaments of member countries would have oversight.
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Full implementation of CETA in any case requires the approval by all 28 EU member countries and, for Belgium, also regional parliaments.
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Women's representation in national parliaments globally has increased from 17.8% in 2008 to 24.1% in 2018, according to the Democratic Institute. 9.
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The deal, known as CETA, must still be ratified by national and some regional parliaments in E.U. member states to take effect.
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If MPs vote no confidence in the government, the Fixed-term Parliaments Act allows 14 days for an alternative to be found.
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Parties have been unable to forge a workable government for nine months after two consecutive national elections left Spain with hung parliaments.
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At the time, he also mentioned that even after a trade deal is finalized, national parliaments across the EU could reject the agreement.
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Thousands of people are eligible to make nominations, including committee members, members of national parliaments, cabinet members, heads of universities or past laureates.
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Now, under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, May must obtain a two-thirds majority in the House of Commons to call an election.
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Many anti-women laws in Pakistan have been debated and amended by previous parliaments, or at least kicked off a process of reform.
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But the Fixed-term Parliaments Act means that the prime minister needs the support of two-thirds of MPs to call an election.
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Even as Facebook continues to deny international parliaments any face-time with its founder and CEO (the EU parliament remains the sole exception).
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"And we meet here, in the oldest of all Parliaments, because we know that democracy — and the values it entails — will always prevail."
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National elections in December and June both resulted in hung parliaments, forcing parties to try to negotiate their way to a viable coalition.
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Today it&aposs split between rival parliaments and governments in the east and west, each backed by different militias, tribes and political factions.
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Libya itself is caught in conflict between two rival factions and their armed allies who have established two governments and two competing parliaments.
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More recently they are being held up by the refusal of both parliaments to accept the UN's latest proposal for a unity government.
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Through peer-to-peer exchanges, trainings, and other assistance for staff and members of parliament, HDP helps strengthen parliaments in 18 partner democracies.
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Disputed polls in 2014 led to competing parliaments and governments being set up in eastern and western Libya, backed by rival military alliances.
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But policymakers aren't giving up — and have upped the ante by issuing a fresh invitation signed by representatives from another three national parliaments.
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The Fixed-term Parliaments Act of 2011 makes it harder than it used to be for prime ministers opportunistically to call early elections.
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Any later, and there would be a risk of failing to get it ratified by both parliaments before Brexit Day on March 29.
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It is now in 10 of the country's 16 state Parliaments and seems certain to win seats in the federal Parliament next year.
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Since the summer of 2014 Libya has had two rival governments and parliaments, which operate from the capital Tripoli and from the east.
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Spain has been in political limbo since two inconclusive national elections in December and June delivered the most fractured parliaments in four decades.
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Potential recipients can only be nominated by a select group that includes national ministers, members of parliaments, certain university professors and former honorees.
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I wouldn't have expected that the biggest threats to racial harmony would come from within our parliaments and from sections of our media.
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Any plan relying on a general election will have to overcome the new Fixed-term Parliaments Act and then actually win the contest.
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In a parliamentary system, though, the Green Party would have a handful of seats in Congress, as it does in many European parliaments.
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Arguing against the "establishment" across the political spectrum, a new generation of political leaders was swept into governments and parliaments around the world.
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The 2017 global average of seats held by women in parliaments around the world was 24%, according to data from the World Bank.
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Britain and the EU hope to reach broad agreement by October so that EU national parliaments can ratify a deal before Britain leaves.
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Spain also began a process of political decentralization that gave regions their own parliaments and significant powers over areas like education and health.
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The updated ESM treaty will then have to be ratified by all 19 euro zone parliaments, which is likely to take a year.
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Your company is incredibly successful, but lately members of various congresses and parliaments have begun wondering aloud whether it is actually too successful.
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National elections since 2015 have resulted in hung parliaments, forcing the winner to try to negotiate support from others to form a government.
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You'd think that the German parliament, of all parliaments, would be able to vote to commemorate a genocide without stirring up a controversy.
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The main argument supporters of parliaments make is that parliamentary systems tend to collapse into dictatorship a lot less often than presidential systems.
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On Tuesday, officials echoed the mantra that "the clock is ticking" to agree a treaty that parliaments can ratify in time for Brexit.
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In particular they needed to assure the public and parliaments that quantitative easing - creating money to buy bonds - would not kindle an inflationary fire.
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That is so the process of ratification in the European and British parliaments can be completed in good time for Brexit in March 2019.
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Under Belgium's baroque constitutional arrangements all five regional parliaments must provide their assent for the federal government, which supports CETA, to give its backing.
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On Tuesday, Facebook vice president of policy solutions Richard Allan is expected to testify in front of members of nine international parliaments in London.
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That's mostly because of the 2011 Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, which denies the prime minister the unilateral authority to dissolve Parliament and call elections.
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For example, she pointed to CEO Mark Zuckerberg's refusal thus far to appear before parliaments around the world that have asked him to testify.
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Even if it were, the Fixed-term Parliaments Act allows 14 days for a new prime minister to try to form a new government.
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Its full implementation, including the investor protection parts, requires approval by all 28 EU member countries and, for Belgium, also of its regional parliaments.
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I wouldn&apost have expected that the biggest threats to racial harmony would come from within our parliaments and from sections of our media.
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Those in the West have been used to seeing elections for representatives to parliaments, chosen by parties, as the natural concomitant to free societies.
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Hence, not without reason, the Eurosceptic offence taken at comparisons of the democratic legitimacy conferred by European Parliament to that conferred by national parliaments.
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Since 2014, Libya has had two competing parliaments and governments, one set based in Tripoli and a second, internationally recognized one in the east.
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But the deal still requires ratification by the two national parliaments and a referendum in Macedonia, and not everyone is inclined to vote "yes".
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The agreement will need to be ratified by both the UK and EU parliaments before Britain can leave the EU, which looks very difficult.
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The mainstay of today's authoritarianism is strengthening your power while simultaneously weakening government institutions, such as parliaments and judiciaries, that provide checks and balances.
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The world's third-largest democracy held the biggest single-day election on April 17 to elect a president and national and regional level parliaments.
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The accord still requires ratification by the two national parliaments and a referendum in Macedonia, a tough test for the leaders in both countries.
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On the EU side, this means getting it through the European Council, European Parliament, and national and regional parliaments across the EU27 member states.
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The coronavirus has sickened lawmakers in the French, Spanish, European and Iranian parliaments, and forced others to self-isolate, including several US Republican lawmakers.
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His problem is that, under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act (FTPA) of 2011, prime ministers can no longer call an election when they want.
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Mr. Zaev has promised to put it to a referendum, probably in September, and it must be approved by the parliaments of both countries.
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Part of the solution to this, as you argue in the book, is to establish quotas for women on corporate boards and in parliaments.
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The deal still must be approved by national and regional parliaments in Europe, and it could face a number of obstacles during that process.
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The AfD has grown consistently since its founding in 2013 and is now present in the parliaments of every one of Germany's 16 states.
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Thousands of people who can make nominations, including members of national parliaments, former laureates and leading academics, often announce whose names they have forwarded.
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Last month, the Inter-Parliamentary Union's database of women in world parliaments ranked the United States 78th out of 193 countries in the world.
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Speaking in Cologne, she said the AfD would get into regional parliaments in Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia in state elections in May.
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However, Johnson could not call new elections to try and get a majority in Parliament due to the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, Vox reported.
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The fragile deal, which is subject to a referendum in Macedonia and approval from parliaments in both countries, has long been in the making.
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Recently, two regional parliaments in Belgium passed laws to end religious slaughter starting in 2019, though both measures face legal challenges in Belgian courts.
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The University of Konstanz's Michael Becher identifies this as the mechanism through which countries with parliaments develop bigger welfare states than countries with presidents.
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It's full to the brim with terms uttered by politicians in the parliaments of countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India and South Africa.
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Under something called the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, Corbyn could propose a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons against the Conservative leadership.
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The country of Magna Carta and the Mother of Parliaments deserves a meaningful debate on concrete options, and a vote based on considered strategic goals.
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Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act of 2011, Mrs May needs the backing of two-thirds of the House of Commons to call an election.
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I have seen no convincing evidence on either count, and both the Westminster and Scottish parliaments have, as recently as 2015, reached the same conclusion.
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Full implementation of CETA, including the investor protection parts, requires approval by all 28 EU member countries and, for Belgium, also of its regional parliaments.
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Russians will take to the polls on September 10th to elect over a dozen governors and fill thousands of seats in regional and municipal parliaments.
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Libya's political leaders are currently divided between two loose political alliances centered on rival Parliaments in the capital, Tripoli, and the eastern city of Tobruk.
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Indigenous populations in other countries have their own parliaments or an allocation of seats within the national parliament, and some live under their own laws.
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Op-Ed Contributors In their respective parliaments, Ms. O represents France's En Marche party, Mr. Nouripour Germany's Green Party, and Mr. Bacon Britain's Conservative Party.
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The new governments, republican in most cases, imperial down in Rio, set out to remake their colonial capitals with new national parliaments and federal ministries.
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In 2017, it won seats in 14 of the 16 German state parliaments and 93 seats in the Bundestag, becoming the country's third-largest party.
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Hopes were raised by a peace deal brokered by the UN that was signed in Morocco on December 17th by delegates from the rival parliaments.
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British government lawyers have argued there is no need to have the agreement of Britain's devolved parliaments in Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales for Brexit.
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Under the constitution, the chairman of parliaments upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah, would serve as caretaker president for at least 45 days if Bouteflika stepped down.
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There would almost certainly be parallel negotiations on a new trade deal, which would need unanimous approval by all 27 countries and their national parliaments.
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Two national elections since last December have produced parliaments so fragmented that Spain's bickering political parties haven't been able to agree on a prime minister.
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They speak in high-minded rhetoric rather than in Twitter insults, they're emasculated by parliaments and by the press, and maybe they're not very funny.
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Their provisions, like ordinary statutes enacted by the Parliament or by a legislature, were often amendable by the simple acts of subsequent Parliaments or legislatures.
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The insistence that the future of the European Union should be decided by referendums and not in parliaments is what unites populists of both extremes.
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This could also help the EU streamline ratification — so that the likes of Belgium's regional parliaments would not be able to hold up the deal.
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We expect the international community, especially the Western countries including their administrations, parliaments, media organs and civil societies, to take a firm stand against terrorism.
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And if senior judges have made politicized decisions, it is because they have been appointed by parliaments and governments from both the left and right.
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In the last decade, quotas for women have been imposed on governments, parliaments and political parties in a number of Middle Eastern and African countries.
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As Islamic State militants gain ground in Libya, the country's two warring parliaments announced an agreement on Tuesday to cobble together a new unity government.
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One particularly active series of minority parliaments in the 1960s introduced old-age pensions, a version of Medicare, the precursor to the current Canada-U.
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The only states it does not have any seats in state parliaments are in a central strip of Germany in Bavaria, Hesse and Lower Saxony.
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The deal must be ratified by national and some regional parliaments across the European Union, which could create further hurdles before it goes into force.
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But under the 2011 Fixed-term Parliaments Act, two-thirds of MPs must vote for dissolution, so it needs Labour as well as Tory backing.
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But an EU official expressed cautious optimism that the Macedonian settlement, which must be approved by both countries' parliaments, will have a positive psychological effect.
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Historians will no doubt find many reasons the "mother of parliaments" has been in such spectacular disarray for so long on so critical a matter.
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Since 2014 the country has had two competing sets of parliaments and governments in Tripoli and the east, both backed by loose alliances of armed brigades.
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In another concession, European Union legislation could be blocked if enough national parliaments oppose a measure, though critics doubt that that would be easy to deploy.
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Ljajic said he hoped parliaments of the two countries would soon ratify a 2017 free trade deal that would boost bilateral trade to around $2 billion.
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Passing big, necessary legislation — in this case, legislation that's literally necessary to save the planet — is a whole lot easier with parliaments than with presidential systems.
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The Council of Ministers and European Parliament (EP) preserved decision-making roles for, respectively, governments and national parliaments (direct elections to the EP began in 1979).
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The Tory high command had been increasingly worried about the fact that the Fixed-term Parliaments Act would force her to call an election in 2020.
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But it was a very Canadian "brawl" -- that is, really not much of one, especially compared to the rumbles seen in other parliaments around the world.
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Obama has also taken his case to the people in parliaments, in concert halls and convention centers, in countries ranging from Canada to Israel to Australia.
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Since 2014, the country has been split between rival governments and parliaments based in the western and eastern regions, each backed by different militias and tribes.
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The United Kingdom, after all, has four entities, three regional parliaments and a head of state who must be a member of the Church of England.
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But this framework would be contained only in a "political declaration" that will accompany the withdrawal treaty to be ratified by the British and EU parliaments.
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Belgium's regional governments have until the end of Friday to consult their parliaments if needed, and ambassadors from other EU countries will also review the addendum.
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Parliaments in countries like Germany and the Netherlands already find it galling to send so much of their taxpayers' cash to governments that flout the rules.
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In Pakistan, where a British-modeled parliamentary system is in place, voters on Wednesday elected lawmakers to both its National Assembly and its four provincial Parliaments.
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"We now know that parliaments, various companies and even journalists and publishers have been targeted, as well as allied countries," von Notz said in a statement.
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Dutch and German ministers have attacked a Commission decision that the European Parliament can approve a trade pact with Canada without referring it to national parliaments.
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Over half of all countries have now implemented some type of gender quota to their parliaments, according to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.
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Even a trade deal with Canada, concluded two years ago and now awaiting ratification in Europe's parliaments, may fall foul of opposition in Germany and Austria.
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This might mean the size and scope of future repayments could be assessed by national parliaments, rather than automatically calculated based on factors like GDP growth.
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While editing it, she pulls out another sewing needle from the plastic lining of her pack of Parliaments and runs it up and down her thigh.
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But the union cannot legally ratify that pledge until all 28 countries have separately ratified it in their own parliaments, a process that could take years.
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These include national parliaments and senates, the judiciary, the news media and in differing ways the civil service, academic institutions, trade unions, business organizations and NGOs.
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Apart from Haftar, the heads of the two parliaments based in the east and west, Aguila Saleh and Khalid al-Mishri, were also attending, officials said.
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But the presidents of Libya's competing parliaments and many deputies did not back the agreement, which has been fiercely opposed by some groups within the country.
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I'd recommend parliaments around the world take pause to consider the grand history of economic policy mistakes so as to avoid repeating the mistakes of others.
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GENEVA — Women in Parliaments around the world routinely experience threats, intimidation and sexist put-downs, according to a study of female lawmakers made public on Wednesday.
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He said it made no sense for decisions on sensitive issues, such as migration, to be "decided by faceless bureaucrats in Brussels" rather than national parliaments.
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The agreement will come into force after 22 countries ratify it in their national parliaments, which Mr. Muchanga said he expected would happen within the year.
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It said China had targeted lawmakers and employees of the European and German Parliaments, lobbyists, members of the military and representatives of foundations and think tanks.
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Members of the militia group and their political allies in Iraq's parliaments have called on the government of Iraq to expel US forces from that country.
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Brexit negotiators want to conclude talks by the end of November to ensure that there is enough time to get the deal approved by all Parliaments.
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Women only make up 16% of ministerial positions in the government, according to a 2017 report from Inter-Parliamentary Union, a global organization of national parliaments.
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In recent months, the party has won seats in several state parliaments — even nabbing 14 percent of the vote in notoriously left-leaning Berlin last month.
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In the back are indexes that organize the parliaments in a variety of informative ways, such as by building year or by seat-to-population ratio.
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Preciado has built Documenta 14's public programs by borrowing organizational models with ancient Greek roots, such as parliaments and assemblies, to frame discussions on democracy.
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Just a day earlier, a Facebook official testified in front of representatives from nine parliaments about its practices where a Canadian lawmaker suggested Facebook be broken up.
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Britain won a new right for national parliaments, working in concert, to block EU legislative proposals they argue mean an unnecessary centralization of lawmaking on an issue.
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The Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) came into force on Thursday after clearing a key procedural hurdle and being ratified by the parliaments of 24 countries.
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In the 1950s, soon after independence, their three annual sessions typically added up to 140 days a year, not unlike the parliaments of, say, Britain or Canada.
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Its legislators in the state parliaments (and from September, in all likelihood, the Bundestag) make angry speeches that do well on YouTube, but achieve little of substance.
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According to The Guardian, politicians from parliaments around the world who have failed to gain access to Zuckerberg will also be able to attend if they wish.
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During sittings of the 2010 and 2015 parliaments, MPs aged 65 and over were twice as likely as their younger colleagues to vote against the party line.
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We have many experienced personalities, who in recent years have held responsibility in the federal governments and in state parliaments; including some who have already been ministers.
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Full implementation of CETA, including investment, will only ensue after clearance by more than three dozen national and regional parliaments, which is by no means a certainty.
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"Democratically elected European parliaments will take pragmatic decisions about what's in their interest and they will choose to give tariff-free access to the UK," she added.
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Krichbaum said the ECB's monetary policy was actually like an invisible bailout for the indebted countries of southern Europe and that this was never authorized by parliaments.
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It bills this as "a declaration on future action from the parliaments involved" — suggesting the intent is to generate international momentum and consensus for regulating social media.
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The U.N. is trying to win support for a deal to form a national unity government, but many members of Libya's rival parliaments have not signed up.
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The idea is to reach an agreement by the fall to ensure that national parliaments across Europe will be able to approve the final deal in time.
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But now, having watched the Scots and the Welsh win their own parliaments, England — with no less than 84 percent of Britain's population — feels aggrieved and unrepresented.
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A statement carried in the Global New Light of Myanmar daily said that the election commission had confirmed the military lawmakers for both national and regional parliaments.
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Before this year parliaments had issued two yellow cards, once against a law limiting workers' right to strike and once against establishing an EU-wide prosecutor's office.
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Females account for 23 percent of some 46,000 parliamentarians worldwide, the IPU, an international organization of parliaments that works for the establishment of representative democracy worldwide, said.
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In the EU, PiS wants a bigger role for national parliaments - a stance similar to that of Britain, which will next week kickstart its EU divorce proceedings.
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He formed his own band, the Parliaments, as a teen-ager, and in the early sixties the group travelled to Detroit to audition for the Motown label.
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Since March, the GNA has been seeking to replace the rival parliaments and governments and integrate armed groups, including forces loyal to Haftar, into national security forces.
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Poland's nationalist government is lobbying for a "red-card" system whereby a grouping of national parliaments can band together to block planned legislation in the European Union.
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" The tyrant is at last brought down by the tribunes — not heroes, mere functionaries, "akin to the much-maligned professional politicians of democratic congresses and parliaments everywhere.
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They look at the country&aposs top political leader, the political executives, cabinet ministers, executive staff, party leaders, assembly leaders, supreme court justices, and members of parliaments.
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As the guardian of EU laws, the Commission checks that draft budgets comply with EU limits on deficit and debt before they are voted on by parliaments.
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President Joko Widodo signed a free trade deal with Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Australia's capital of Canberra after the parliaments of both countries ratified the pact.
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Because of their campaign, the issue eventually went before the parliaments of both Jamaica and the UK — where, sadly but unsurprisingly, it was met with great indifference.
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Britain's government asked the Supreme Court in April to rule on whether bills on regional powers after Brexit, passed by the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, were constitutionally sound.
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BBC political correspondent Chris Mason stood outside of the mother of parliaments on Monday morning and said he didn't have the "foggiest idea" about where Brexit is going.
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The commission also pointed to polls showing that trust in the EU is at the highest level since 2010—and higher than trust in national governments and parliaments.
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Under devolution rules, the parliaments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are required to consent to any EU divorce, according to a report by the House of Lords.
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" ING added: "All EU member states will have to approve the eventual UK-EU trade deal and some constitutions require regional parliaments within a country to do likewise.
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This is a huge undertaking which includes new deals which must be brokered and negotiated with all the other 27 countries, their individual parliaments and the European Parliament.
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Because of a 2011 law known as the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, a two-thirds majority of members of Parliament (MPs) must vote in favor of an election.
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Krichbaum said that the ECB's monetary policy was actually like an invisible bailout for the indebted countries of southern Europe and that this was never authorised by parliaments.
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The country's previous elections, in 2014, led to the formation of rival governments and parliaments in Tripoli and the east, both backed by loose alliances of armed groups.
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But when it comes to transition or, even more crucially, to the ultimate trade arrangements, the other countries must agree unanimously and their parliaments must ratify the deal.
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Sharif marked his ballot for both the National and Punjab provincial Parliaments and is contesting elections in four National Assembly seats and in two Punjab provincial legislature seats.
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And having proved the Fixed Term Parliaments Act obsolete, it's likely that Theresa May will abolish it altogether during the next Parliament, assuming she is still in charge.
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Under the Paris Agreement, the period to 2020 is a gap partly because backers of the 2015 pact assumed it might take years for parliaments to ratify it.
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They said this included ensuring political parties take the lead in recruiting women, women politicians are given support, and parliaments lose their macho image and "old boys' clubs".
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ASZ Chairman Laszlo Domokos is a former Fidesz lawmaker while Chief Prosecutor Peter Polt is a former Fidesz member twice appointed to his post by Fidesz-dominated parliaments.
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But as a new populist force to the right of the Christian Democrats in state parliaments, it will help pull German debate, especially on refugees, to the right.
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And the new rules for trade will also have to be approved by all 27 remaining EU members and ratified by their national parliaments (and the European Parliament).
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Parliaments with a higher share of women are also more likely to pass laws that advance equality for women, including provisions to address domestic violence and sexual harassment.
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On Friday the European Union imposed sanctions on three leaders from the country's two other parliaments, one in Tripoli and the other in the eastern city of Tobruk.
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Most senior people in parties and parliaments are men, and some target young interns and researchers hoping to be selected as election candidates or hired by think-tanks.
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Under the terms of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, an election can only take place in the UK every five years unless two-thirds of MPs agree otherwise.
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These new arrangements — to be clear about the scale of the challenge — must be negotiated with all the other 27 countries, their individual parliaments and the European Parliament.
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Mykkanen said trade pacts could be split into two parts, with one requiring approval from parliaments, and the other just needing support from a majority of EU governments.
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The U.K. leader will now seek a different route to an election — by passing a law with a simple majority that bypasses the 2011 Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
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The bottom line: It's unlikely that the U.K. and European Parliaments, as well as those of the 27 remaining EU member states, will continue to accept May's procrastination.
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The rise of new political players in the wake of a long recession has split voters and resulted in two consecutive hung parliaments after general elections on Dec.
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But some lawmakers in the ruling coalition and opposition parties were critical of the bill, which had failed repeatedly in previous parliaments to come up for a vote.
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However, under the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, two-thirds of all MPs need to approve any election which would take place before the next scheduled vote in 2022.
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The deal still must be ratified by both the European Parliament and the parliaments of the European Union's 28 member states, as well as by Vietnam's National Assembly.
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Something like 40 percent of the countries in the world have introduced some kind of quota for women in terms of participation in national parliaments and local government.
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Even winning one is complicated by the 2011 Fixed-term Parliaments Act, which allows 14 days for another government to secure confidence before an election must be called.
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Instead, the conservatives say that setting up an EMF under European law would require treaty change "in consultation with national parliaments" - a tricky feat that would take time.
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While they haven't lost sight of external actors violating their sovereignty, they also know the people sitting in their presidential palaces and parliaments are central to the problem.
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I mean, we have parliaments, obstinacies, caravans and destructions; there is a petition to rename a "shoal" of squids to a "squad," but it's not making many waves.
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"I have looked at the legal arguments and I have listened to heads of state or government and to national parliaments," Juncker said in a statement on Tuesday.
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But thanks to the quirks of a law called the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, Johnson was forced to extend the Brexit deadline before he could call an election.
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"The Hong Kong government completely disagrees and expresses deep regret that foreign parliaments are interfering in our internal affairs through legislation," she said during her weekly news conference.
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The president is not directly elected by the people, but rather by the Federal Convention, an assembly of members of the federal parliament and delegates from state parliaments.
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Since then, we have gone from being first-time voters to seasoned ones, heading to the polls nine times to cast ballots for Parliaments, presidents or the Constitution.
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AT A street corner in Kangemi, a neighbourhood of tin-roofed shacks and new brick tenements in the west of Nairobi, men huddle into what are called street parliaments.
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"We would challenge governments, including congresses and parliaments, presidents and prime ministers, to put harmonisation on their agenda," they wrote in an editorial in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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With about five months to go, time is running out before the U.K. and the EU solve their outstanding differences and ratify the exit agreement in their own parliaments.
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By then, the current withdrawal agreement would have to have been approved in the U.K. and the European parliaments, if the U.K. were to leave in an orderly way.
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Manfred Weber, head of a conservative bloc in parliament, told broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk that it was a mistake to allow all European parliaments to vote on the trade pact.
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In any case, before most crunch summits, national leaders (including British ones) have disclosed to their parliaments and their voters the broad outlines of what they hope to achieve.
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The agreement could then enter force after approval by the national governments and the European Parliament, rather than also having to secure clearance from national and even regional parliaments.
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But the presidents of Libya's competing parliaments and many deputies did not back the agreement and it has continued to face stiff opposition from some factions on the ground.
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Belgium agreed a deal with its regional parliaments on Thursday to approve a landmark EU-Canada free trade agreement, breaking a deadlock that has blocked the pact for weeks.
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"We would challenge governments, including congresses and parliaments, presidents and prime ministers, to put harmonization on their agenda," they wrote in an editorial in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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The court in Karlsruhe rejected emergency appeals by activists to prevent Berlin from endorsing the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) before it has been ratified by national parliaments.
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The senior official said the EU assumes a trade deal would require ratification in each country, including some parliaments which have been sceptical of free trade in the past.
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Some academics see populism first and foremost as a type of leadership in which the charismatic leader communicates directly with the people, bypassing or abolishing representative institutions like parliaments.
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But weeks of fighting between rival militias in the capital Tripoli and deadlock between rump parliaments in Tripoli and the east has made that goal unrealistic, Western officials argue.
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If consumers want their films to reflect the society in which they live—as they do their parliaments and executive boards—it is these areas that must see improvement.
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In an extensive series of tweets throughout December, hackers leaked sensitive data from hundreds of German politicians, including members of the European parliament, German parliament, and regional state parliaments.
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While Roma women are not represented in any of the European Union's national parliaments, they are coming to the forefront in arts and theatre to reclaim their public image.
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Both London and Brussels say they want a divorce deal, though there is limited time if the British and EU parliaments are to ratify a deal by March 29.
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When the devolved regional parliaments were formed in the early Blair years, part of their initial legal infrastructure was the requirement that they act in accordance with EU law.
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And the Social Democrats are loath to team up with The Left, their ancient intra-bloc rivals, although they have done so in some state parliaments in eastern Germany.
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Mr. Worrell had been the musical director for the R&B singer Maxine Brown when he joined Mr. Clinton, whose doo-wop group, the Parliaments, was originally from Plainfield.
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As negotiations roll along, the final Brexit deal is becoming increasingly difficult to approve in the different European parliaments as the U.K.'s due departure next March gets closer.
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It also showed the AfD was likely to win seats in the parliaments of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate with 13 percent and 9 percent of the vote respectively.
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Mr. Michel, the country's prime minister, acknowledged that the compromise still needed the agreement of the regional parliaments, including the balky Legislature in Wallonia, where opposition has been fiercest.
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The vast North African country is home to competing governments and parliaments, with real power held by an array of militias, many of which make money from trafficking migrants.
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That will kick off a legislative marathon in which both the federal and state parliaments will need to pass further laws setting the rate and scope of the GST.
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The vast majority of world leaders and members of parliaments — the same politicians who are shuffling their feet when it comes to taking action on climate change — are men.
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British and EU leaders now have just over a year and a half to negotiate and agree a deal, which will then go to a vote before European Parliaments.
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That means the government must vote against the deal at the EU level, where according to rules all 28 member states and their parliaments must agree to trade deals.
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Though Merkel has signalled limited support, other states have made clear their disagreements, pressing for an end to integrationist policies, even for a return of powers to national parliaments.
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From there, he moved to Detroit to join George Clinton's doo-wop group, The Parliaments, and their backing band, Funkadelic, which would then be collectively known as Parliament-Funkadelic.
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Only 11 parliaments around the world use this typology, but it's thought to be the most democratic of them all, because it totally eschews a front and central dominant figure.
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Among the many things you should know about Culkin is that he has a bunch of cats, is dating actress Brenda Song, smokes Parliaments, and is currently playing WrestleMania 2000.
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During the euro crisis, Mrs Merkel tellingly began talking of a "union method" based on national capitals and parliaments instead of the classic Monnet method built around the EU institutions.
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The unity government was designed to bridge divisions and end political and security chaos in the North African country, which has had rival pairs of parliaments and governments since 2014.
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Christian Democratic lawmakers have been pushing to anchor any financial overhaul to a treaty change, which in turn would require approval from individual parliaments, creating considerably more uncertainty and delay.
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The U.N. is trying to win support for a deal to form a national unity government in Libya, but the plan has faced resistance from members of the rival parliaments.
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Back at home in member states, female lawmakers make up more than 40% of the parliaments of Belgium, Sweden and Finland, but only just over 10% in Hungary and Malta.
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His original arguments against the EEC, that it was an unaccountable bureaucracy making laws with no regard for national parliaments, were exactly those that won the day in June 2016.
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Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, ranks 181 out of 193 countries for the percentage of women in parliament, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the international organization of parliaments.
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"I have looked at the legal arguments and I have listened to heads of state or government and to national parliaments," Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in a statement.
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Both parliaments have pressed on with their own bills as a backstop in case a deal cannot be reached, but have made more positive statements on an agreed outcome recently.
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The first hurdle will be for a majority of state parliaments to pass the GST amendment, which would establish a GST Council to finalize key terms of the new tax.
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But the new government has failed to win backing from Libya's two rival administrations and parliaments, one pair of which is based in Tripoli and the other in the east.
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In addition to Saudi Arabia, Middle Eastern countries of Tunisia, Israel, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, and Morocco all have greater female representation in parliaments than the United States.
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Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel's government was racing to find a solution, although officials stressed that it was the local governments rather than parliaments that would have the final say.
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Much of this is specific to German politics and doesn't necessarily offer a model for Italy, Austria, the Netherlands and other countries facing a populist incursion in their own Parliaments.
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In its scope and powers, the Tran-Pacific Partnership Commission is analogous to the European Commission, the unelected rule-making body of the EU to which Europe's national parliaments bow.
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Scholz also backed a push by French President Emmanuel Macron to move toward creation of a European army, adding that deployments would still have to be approved by national parliaments.
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In one, the U.K. could unwind the Brexit decision through a general election, amid court cases over whether the U.K. needs Scottish and Welsh parliaments' consent to exit the European Union.
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But that may be particularly challenging given that the new government has yet to gain support from the opposing parliaments in Tripoli and Tobruk, separated by the length of the country.
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One complicating factor is that much of the money is siphoned off through "legal corruption", in business ventures that comply with local laws, often because of legislative tinkering by pliant parliaments.
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Johnson's defeat means he is now likely to seek a different route to an election - by passing a law with a simple majority that bypasses the 2011 Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
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Carter and U.S. defense officials also sought to manage expectations about the talks, since many ministers will not be able to make new commitments without first winning support from their parliaments.
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The United Nations is trying to win support for a deal to form a national unity government in Libya, but the plan has faced resistance from members of the rival parliaments.
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Mr Macron has tried to slam the brakes on speedy trade deals that may inject a dose of growth into Europe's economy but that he fears could alienate citizens and parliaments.
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However, the court also said that the EU had "exclusive competence" in areas such as foreign investment and intellectual-property rights, which it could negotiate without seeking ratification from national parliaments.
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From film sets, parliaments to businesses, revelations of sexual abuse have sent shockwaves around the world, with women taking to social media to highlight experiences of abuse through the #MeToo campaign.
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Yet even those actively preparing must contend with a series of unknowns as the national and state parliaments tackle the task of transforming a "model" GST law into the real thing.
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Britain's government asked the Supreme Court in April to rule on whether Brexit bills passed by the Scottish and Welsh parliaments were constitutionally sound, arguing that they would cause legal confusion.
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Others, including the far-right party Vox, which won seats in regional and national parliaments over the last six months, support leaving the body in the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum.
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In Britain the mother of parliaments has been at the gin bottle and opinion polls everywhere show increasing numbers of people losing patience with democratic niceties and hankering after a strongman.
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The House of Lords said in an April report that any decision to exit the European Union would have to be approved by the Parliaments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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The European Union has imposed asset freezes and travel bans on Ghwell and the heads of the parliaments in Tripoli and the east, citing their role in obstructing the unity government.
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She is held in great public affection, the longer she dutifully performs the ceremonies, openings, bestowal of honors, opening of Parliaments — the round of rituals that the British state has retained.
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In the Parliaments' early years, Clinton figured that this was what he had to do, and so the members dutifully synchronized their dance steps, polished their harmonies, and wore matching suits.
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Britain has endured hung parliaments four times with the most recent example occurring in 2010; when the Conservatives went on to form an alliance with the center-left Liberal Democrat party.
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Facebook's founder is facing pressure to accept an invite from eight international parliaments, with lawmakers wanting to question him about negative impacts his social network is having on democratic processes globally.
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With Sunday's results, the anti-immigrant AfD easily passed the threshold for entering the regional legislature for the first time, giving it representation now in all 16 of Germany's state parliaments.
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The list includes a growing number of groups with one foot in the political mainstream, like the far-right Golden Dawn, which holds seats in the Greek and European Union parliaments.
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Negotiators needs to agree on the terms of the future relationship in the coming months to ensure that the final deal is approved by all parliaments on time for the exit.
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So much so that the AfD is now represented in 13 out of Germany's 16 state parliaments – both to the east and west but more predominantly in the former Communist east.
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Building on these bonds we, the speakers of the Nordic-Baltic Parliaments, are visiting Washington, D.C., in the end of June to underscore the value and importance of transatlantic parliamentary cooperation.
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To further that goal of stability, the coalition government then passed the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act of 2011, which denied the prime minister the authority to unilaterally call a new election.
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And he appeared not to grasp the details when several tried to explain to him that spending levels were set by parliaments in individual countries, the American and European officials said.
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While past parliaments were traditionally largely made of career politicians, lawyers and doctors, Macron's candidates include business people, engineers and even a former bullfighter making it to the June 18 run-offs.
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The oil-rich country has splintered in recent years into local fiefdoms, with competing parliaments and governments set up in the east and west of the country backed by rival armed alliances.
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The deal, decades in the making, was agreed on in principle this year but has yet to be ratified; it requires the support of each of the parliaments of all participating countries.
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That isn't going well, and if the UK and EU parliaments don't ratify any agreement that comes up, the UK will be left "crashing" out of the EU, with potentially disastrous consequences.
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Spain had grown rather used to the former situation: it spent ten months in a state of limbo, as two elections delivered parliaments so fragmented that no party could broker a coalition.
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If the tech industry can work sensibly with governments, regulators, parliaments and civic society around the world, I believe we can enhance the benefits of technology while diminishing the often unintended downsides.
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Following a recent series of regional elections, the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, or AfD) is now represented in 10 out 16 state parliaments and is polling around 15 percent nationally.
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By October 22014, the proportion of women in the world's parliaments had reached 23 percent, up from 22 percent the year before — and up from a mere 22 percent in January 21.4.
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New York (CNN Business)Philip Morris International, the company that sells Marlboro, Chesterfield, Parliaments and other brands internationally, thinks smoke-free products may be the solution to the company's longstanding cigarette problem.
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And if you look at the fields of the new technologies and tech companies we see that there is not always really a regulation which is done by Democratic states and parliaments.
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The results echo recent elections in Portugal and Spain, where anger at austerity, perceptions of rising inequality and mistrust of established political elites left parliaments fragmented and parties struggling to form governments.
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Although Britain's devolved parliaments do not have a veto on Brexit legislation, ignoring their wishes has worsened already strained relations and may stoke nationalism in Scotland, further complicating the EU withdrawal process.
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Sarney pointed to a "high risk" that some EU parliaments, particularly in big farming countries such as France, will not ratify the accord concluded last month with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
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In the renegotiation of Britain's EU status that preceded his doomed referendum, the former prime minister won agreement for a "red card" procedure under which groups of parliaments could block legislative proposals.
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Nordic parliaments do a good job of telling their ministers what deals they are allowed to make in Brussels, though this does not seem to have made their voters any less Eurosceptical.
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Spanish politicians on the right and left have until the end of October to overcome their divisions and form a government after two previous ballots in December and June delivered hung parliaments.
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"National parliaments have to be heard," the governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, which meet in a bloc known as the Visegrad Group, said in a statement this week.
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Clinton realized that you could play soul and gospel music at the sludgy pace of heavy rock, and he rebranded the Parliaments—who were stuck in a messy contract dispute—as Funkadelic.
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But perhaps befitting a country with three Parliaments, which once went without a government for 541 days, the understated displays of solidarity were tinged with simmering frustration as a blame game began.
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The Alternative for Germany party has already elbowed its way into five state Parliaments, and is predicted to sail into three more with up to one-fifth of the vote on Sunday.
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In new elections two years later party lists were banned and the result of the vote was disputed, leading to rival parliaments and governments being set up in Tripoli and the east.
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His appeal, before this month's European Parliament election, is unlikely to succeed, since changing the EU treaty requires unanimity among member states, ratification in their parliaments and, in some countries, national referendums.
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The result is the latest confirmation that Germany's political spectrum is becoming increasingly fragmented, forcing politicians to cut unwieldy multi-party deals in order to form governments in national and regional parliaments.
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The Kremlin said in a statement on Saturday that Putin had signed off on the constitutional changes after they were approved by both house of the country's parliament and by regional parliaments.
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For the first time, the national Parliament and the parliaments of the three most populous states — New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland — were aligned with newly elected governments from the same side.
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The EU hopes to start trade talks with Britain by March, leaving just 10 months to strike a deal and get it approved by London and the EU, including member states parliaments.
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Kotzias also said one should steer clear of making associations between people who fight for their rights in a democratic way and those who carry out coups, bomb parliaments and kill protesters.
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While their powers have been hitherto circumscribed, a Tshisekedi presidency will be frustrated at every turn if the Senate, the National Assembly and provincial parliaments are all dominated by Mr. Kabila's coalition.
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That's why leading figures from all major German parties are now calling for parity: a 50-50 quota for male and female representatives in the Bundestag and the 16 state-level Parliaments.
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Depending on what the European Commission decides, it may also need the approval of regional and local European parliaments too—a requirement that almost scuppered the EU's most recent trade deal, with Canada.
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Experts say they are unlikely to derail a deal, but if the devolved parliaments in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are entitled to vote on triggering Article 50, it could delay Brexit further.
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Some lawyers and constitutional academics say Britain's devolved parliaments have no formal veto over the process of exiting the EU, nor over the fresh legislation required to set Britain on a new course.
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The comments came after Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid told local broadcaster ERR Tuesday that she will only visit Moscow after Russia ratifies the treaty that must be approved by both countries&apos parliaments.
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In the first four post-war parliaments, more than 90% of votes passed without a dissenting vote from a government backbencher, according to research by Philip Cowley of Queen Mary University in London.
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This means that a system of investor protection also envisaged in the accord, which opponents say will hand too much power to multinationals, may come into force only after ratification by national parliaments.
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Once Britain is a third country, any negotiations would fall under a different provision, probably Article 218, which requires not just unanimous agreement but also ratification by all national and several regional parliaments.
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"(The deal) comes into force in one or three years, depending on the parliaments...Maybe ours will be one of the first to approve, I hope," he told journalists when arriving in Brasilia.
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EU member states still have to ratify the agreement before its implementation as well as the European Parliament, and in some cases the national parliaments in different capitals will have their say too.
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Some EU officials say a deal with Britain in December, or even as late as January, could leave just about enough time for the British and the European parliaments to ratify the agreement.
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Keen to ease tension, Merkel had broken the ice as talks began by showing May a photomontage on a tablet of both wearing similar jackets when addressing their parliaments earlier in the day.
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The latest changes to Spain's forecasts come amid a prolonged period of political paralysis, after two national elections in the last six months delivered hung parliaments, complicating the formation of a new government.
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Allan will give evidence next week to elected members from the parliaments of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Latvia, Singapore, along with members of the UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) parliamentary committee.
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The president is not directly elected by the people, but rather by the Federal Convention, an assembly of members of the German parliament and the same number of delegates sent from state parliaments.
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In 2010, Spain's Constitutional Court annulled fundamental articles of Catalonia's statute of autonomy, which had the support of the Spanish and Catalan Parliaments and had even been approved by a referendum in 2006.
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After arriving in Tripoli in March, the GNA has been gradually trying to establish its authority and unify factions that set up rival parliaments and governments in Tripoli and eastern Libya in 2014.
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Weidmann, who has long been critical of some of the ECB's extraordinary policy moves, said a decision on giving money to citizens was highly politicized and should be handled by governments and parliaments.
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The GNA, set up in Tripoli in March, is meant to replace competing parliaments and governments in Tripoli and the east, but has failed to win endorsement from eastern factions aligned with Haftar.
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While the numbers have improved in recent decades — the percentage of women in parliaments nearly doubled between 1995 and 2015, according to U.N. Women — the world still has a long way to go.
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Facebook has declined once again to send its CEO to the UK parliament — this time turning down an invitation to face questions from a grand committee comprised of representatives from five international parliaments.
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Most European Union members have said they viewed the deal as a "mixed" agreement, meaning each country would have to push the deal through their parliaments, a move that would likely delay approval.
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Last Sunday, nearly 13 percent of voters in Hesse, a German state, cast their ballots for the party, securing the AfD seats in all 16 of Germany's state parliaments for the first time.
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It wasn't until 1977 — when the rest of the country was voting in the sixth national elections — that Arunachalis first got to choose their own representatives, for both the state and national parliaments.
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HANS BARNARDAssociate researcherCotsen Institute of ArchaeologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles Your report on seating arrangements in parliaments around the world ("Better politics by design", July 27th) brought to mind the seating of choruses.
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This refers to a trade deal that the European Union negotiated with Canada over seven years and concluded in 2014 – although it is yet to be fully ratified by national parliaments in Europe.
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The transition is a big moment for an institution that likes to think of itself as the mother of parliaments, yet seems to many voters to behave more like an overindulged, entitled child.
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TIME The EU hopes to start trade talks with Britain by March, leaving just 10 months to strike a deal and get it approved by London and the EU, including member states' parliaments.
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EU officials are waiting to see how May can handle her domestic problems and are prepared to have to wait until December for a deal that can then be ratified by both parliaments.
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Since the main purpose of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act was to secure the stability of one particular coalition government, the law perhaps should have been written to automatically expire after five years.
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Of 1003 seats in the lower house, 2100 are held by women (22011 percent), as are 26 of the 26 in the upper house (38 percent), according to an international organization of parliaments.
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The letter, which is titled "Open Letter to Parliaments of Different Countries," was drafted by North Korea's Foreign Affairs Committee, and was dispatched to the North Korean embassy in Jakarta before reaching Australia.
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"I don't think it is possible to get interim arrangements through 27 European parliaments in a two year period, so the British will fall off a cliff in two years time," he said.
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Here in the US, our Congress, the state governments, and in parliaments around the world, there are Catholic politicians who make the decision to support freedom of conscience in the laws and governance.
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"The purpose of the Bill is to ensure that the UK does not leave the European Union on the 31 October without an agreement, unless Parliaments consents," lawmaker Hilary Benn said on Twitter.
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Britain's first-past-the-post system regularly produces parliaments that only hazily reflect national vote shares; in 2015 the nativist UK Independence Party got 12.6% of the vote, but just one of 650 seats.
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Some parliaments are considering alternatives along the lines of Sweden's Riksdag, which offers formal parental leave, including for men, while Britain's House of Commons is debating arrangements for proxy voting to assist new parents.
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But the backlash against the more than 223 million asylum-seekers who entered Germany in 2555 and 22016 propelled the party into a number of state parliaments, and it moved steadily to the right.
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That would have left enough time for a legal text to be firmed up and sent for ratification to the European and Westminster parliaments before Brexit is due to happen on March 29th 2019.
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At some point, the Union must recognize that its official rhetoric is out of kilter with its members' wishes – which are that sovereignty, especially in economic matters, remains with their governments, parliaments and people.
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Poland's fiscal discipline earned it a credit rating upgrade from Standard & Poor's earlier this month, but the government may loosen the reins in 2019 before elections to the European and national parliaments, analysts said.
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Responsibility for developing and approving plans for forest use is spread among at least three ministries, along with the national parliament, as well as provincial governors and district heads, local parliaments and forestry officials.
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Since then the U.N. has hosted in Tunis delegations from rival parliaments from eastern Libya and Tripoli, which are meant to draw up amendments to a previous U.N.-mediated plan signed in December 2015.
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And with all governments and parliaments headed for seasonal recess during the Christmas vacations, Assad, its Iranian regime masters and Russian President Vladimir Putin considered it the best timing to launch their apparent genocides.
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His "emergency brake" on migration is a graduated restriction of newcomers' benefits; the "red card" that lets national parliaments block EU decisions will have little effect, because the threshold to do so is high.
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In the shadow of the mother of Parliaments, many of these dangerous supra-nationalists had arrived with the flag of a foreign power who they wanted to see dominate our newly sovereign nation-state.
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Not when he's asked by one (non-US) parliament, nor even by representatives from nine parliaments — all keen to discuss the societal fallouts of political disinformation and hate speech spread and accelerated on Facebook.
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Under the EU's "yellow card" system, if one-third of the union's national parliaments think that a proposed law tampers with matters better handled nationally, they can force the European Commission to reconsider it.
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The Continent's broad range of far-right parties, whose agendas are anti-establishment but also anti-immigration and anti-Europe, have entered national parliaments and, in some cases, come close to obtaining political power.
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Furthermore, a final TTIP agreement will have to be ratified by the House and Senate in the United States, and by the European Parliament as well as all national parliaments on the European side.
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Zuckerberg has already appeared in front of the U.S. Congress and European Parliament but has sent other representatives to speak to members of the British and Canadian parliaments, who have both requested his testimony.
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But Labour and other opposition parties failed to support Johnson's subsequent attempt to force an early general election, which under the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act must be approved by two-thirds of the House.
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"I think we should hopefully see the Brexit process move from the politics of parliaments to the negotiating rooms in Brussels... which is hopefully where we will get to from Monday on," he said.
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"We are merely trying to put legitimate questions about the future of FIFA to presidential candidates as members of various parliaments as well as on behalf of fans and other key stakeholders," he said.
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The investigation of Danske Bank's branch in Estonia, the former Soviet state through which the money flowed, is getting fresh scrutiny as whistleblower Howard Wilkinson testifies before the European and Danish parliaments this week.
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While at the national level the percentage of women in parliaments has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, they still make up less than a quarter of all parliamentarians, according to U.N. Women.
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Zuckerberg has already appeared in front of the U.S. Congress and European Parliament, but has sent other representatives to speak to members of the British and Canadian parliaments, who have both requested his testimony.
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There is the same impatience with the messiness and inefficiency of democracy, and it leads to the same crush on the strongman leader who can cut through the irrelevant natterings of parliaments and parties.
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The Inter-Parliamentary Union, a global organization including the parliaments of 179 member countries, found that more than 80 percent of female parliamentarians had experienced psychological violence, the most common form being online harassment.
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Saunders initially said that Israel and the United States were "advocating against funding UNRWA in the European parliaments and elsewhere," but later clarified in a statement that he was referring to pro-Israel groups.
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Being under 40, or belonging to the opposition or a minority group, are "aggravating factors" that put women at risk, according to the study by the Geneva-based body that links 171 national parliaments.
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Out of 221 seats in the lower house, 2100 are held by women (22011 percent), as are 10 of the 26 in the upper house (38 percent), according to an international organization of parliaments.
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Libya has been blighted by a power vacuum over the past two years, in which loose alliances of armed groups aligned with rival parliaments and governments in Tripoli and the east have fought for supremacy.
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Its statement suggests it will seek to take power despite continuing opposition from hardliners in both of Libya's competing parliaments - the eastern House of Representatives (HOR) and the rival General National Congress (GNC) in Tripoli.
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Andy Williamson of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, an organisation of parliaments, believes British politicians would create exactly the same chamber if they had to start again from scratch—"down to the colour of the panelling".
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In reaction, a burgeoning movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel could grow stronger, and "you could see stronger European moves in international organizations and more European Parliaments recognizing a Palestinian state," Malka said.
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The deal offers guarantees to the nine EU countries, including Britain, that do not use the shared euro currency, that they will not be sidelined, and makes tweaks aimed at giving national parliaments more power.
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"If you look at the rankings that have been done of national parliaments and national legislatures, the U.S. currently ranks 91st in the world for the percentage of women in our national legislature," Walsh said.
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It wants to abolish regional governments and parliaments (including the one in Andalusia in which it now has 12 out of 109 seats) and make Spain a centralised unitary state, as it was under Franco.
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Germans who feel the arrival of more than a million mainly Muslim refugees over the last two years is a threat to their culture have helped the party enter 10 of Germany's 16 state parliaments.
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Options markets suggest investors expect heightened sterling volatility in late September and early October, when the UK and EU parliaments return from summer recess and a clearer picture emerges of where Brexit negotiations are headed.
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Options markets suggest investors expect heightened sterling volatility in late September and early October, when the UK and EU parliaments return from summer recess and a clearer picture of where Brexit negotiations are headed emerge.
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Unlike some other European parliaments, the Bundestag cannot just dissolve itself (a legacy of Weimar-era instability) and as Mrs Merkel has not yet been reinstalled as chancellor she cannot call a straight confidence vote.
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If a deal is not struck in November, this summit could be one of the last chances for a deal if parliaments on both sides are to ratify an agreement by exit day in March.
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At the last call the international initiative had a full eight parliaments behind it but it's down to seven — with Australia being unable to attend on account of the travel involved in getting to London.
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But after Brexit those powers will come back to Britain, and Scotland and Wales want to make sure they stay within the remit of regional parliaments and do not just revert to the British government.
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I can therefore confirm that if the Official Opposition table a confidence motion this evening in the form required by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, the Government will make time to debate that motion tomorrow.
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The initial decision on Tuesday must still be formally approved by the bloc's ministers after France and Britain asked for time to receive comments from their parliaments, although these have no power to block it.
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Research suggested the procedure would rarely, if ever, be used, and some analysts mused that vetoes were a rather blunt way of involving parliaments (under EU rules governments may already stop laws in their tracks).
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Polls suggest it will win seats in next year's regional elections in the southern state of Bavaria and the western region of Hesse, which would give it a foothold in all of Germany's state parliaments.
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At the same time, the AfD continued its long run of successes, making it the first far-right party in the history of the Federal Republic to be represented in all national and state parliaments.
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The controversial name change must be formally ratified before the country can join NATO, a move that would require approval in a referendum in Macedonia this fall and in both the Greek and Macedonian parliaments.
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Both houses of the national parliament have since backed the new amendment and a majority of regional parliaments endorsed it on Thursday, sufficient for it to move to the next stage of the approval process.
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Interference by foreign parliaments in Hong Kong's matters is deeply regrettable, the leader of the Chinese-ruled city said earlier on Tuesday, adding that an escalation of violence cannot solve social issues in the city.
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Any talks would be on a different legal basis from Article 50, which governs the current negotiations, requiring a fresh negotiating mandate, the unanimous approval of EU governments and ratification by national and regional parliaments.
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We are the nation of empire, whose ancestors once controlled a quarter of the globe; we are the mother of parliaments; we stood alone against Hitler; we have not been conquered for a thousand years.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The world body linking national parliaments called on authorities in Venezuela on Wednesday to halt "harassment" of opposition MPs and efforts to undermine and usurp the powers of the opposition-led National Assembly.
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The national assembly's subcommittee will review a draft procedure drawn up in April 2016 that was never finalised and a 2015 study of impeachment proceedings of seven other parliaments around the world, the statement said.
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"It is not difficult to see how the Repeal Bill could become a political football," Watts told CNBC, mentioning the issue of powers to devolved parliaments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as an example.
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