Big issues, such as how much power the federal government will devolve to the provinces, are still unsettled.
Portugal's recent plan to devolve power to the regions has made many Portuguese even twitchier.
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The cornerstone of Musharraf's promise to restore democracy is a plan to devolve power to local councils.
General Musharraf's boldest initiative so far, a plan to devolve power to elected local bodies, speaks their language.
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Centralisers under Margaret Thatcher, they now want to devolve power to locally elected officials, including mayors and police chiefs.
The Conservative-run council agreed in September to devolve responsibilities to groups of volunteers at 10 libraries in the county.
They will not persuade their colleagues to devolve power to local government unless local government itself becomes more democratic.
Ministers are promising to devolve power to a new, regional tier of government.
Kumaratunga proposed a plan to devolve power to Tamil regions, and at the time the idea seemed to hold real promise.
She claimed the bill would actually hand more than 140 new "Henry VIII-style powers" to ministers, despite being designed to devolve power to councils.
The populist Northern League wants more autonomy for the rich north of Italy and backs Mr Berlusconi's controversial plans to devolve powers to the regions.
As Corsicans considered proposals made by Lionel Jospin, the French prime minister, to devolve power to the island, two moderate Corsican nationalists were shot dead in broad daylight.
Mr Cameron agreed, but said the legal position on the referendum had to be clarified first, adding that the UK government had offered to devolve powers to the Scottish parliament to resolve the issue.
Indeed, some Conservatives regard the calibre of civil servants as a moot point, as the party's plans to devolve power to local government and community groups will diminish the amount of work done by Whitehall anyway.
Add a desire to devolve more decisions to local areas, and Whitehall begins to look too large and creaky.
Belatedly, politicians of all parties are trying to devolve more power to patients.
Mr Wahid's government is trying to do this as it prepares to devolve more powers to the provinces and districts.
Before that, any plans to devolve extra powers to Wales had to be agreed with parliament, under the process known as a legislative competence order.
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At its centre is a "Decentralisation and Accountability Bill", with the Lib Dems claimining to be the one party ready to devolve real power to local level.
His localism bill, which will arrive in Parliament soon and is intended to devolve assorted powers to local authorities, will formally abolish Labour's planning system once and for all.
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The country's Constitutional Council, the equivalent of America's Supreme Court, has just ruled against a key part of his plan to devolve legislative power to the perpetually troubled island of Corsica.
The Wales Office Minister David Jones told MPs yesterday the UK Government had received no formal (my emphasis) request to devolve the power to decide large energy projects from Westminster to Cardiff Bay.
Jim Murphy, a Scottish Labour MP and the shadow defence secretary, wants the central party to devolve more power to the Scottish party, just as executive power was transferred when Tony Blair's government set up the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
That's why the model in health is to devolve personal health budgets to the GP and the patient together.
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It says oil taxation is too volatile to devolve and wants welfare to remain handled by the UK as a whole.
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In her speech, Ms May re-iterated the Tories' pledge to "devolve power back to parents and the classroom", making schools "free".
The mayor of London has said the only way to convince the Treasury to devolve corporation tax powers to Stormont is to show the Exchequer that it would save it money in the long-term.
So when Plaid Cymru tabled an amendment to the Finance Bill to devolve air passenger duty to Wales, and Welsh Labour MPs didn't vote for it, Plaid duly condemned Labour, not that Labour votes would have changed the outcome of the vote.
In addition to reducing victimisation, especially of the vulnerable, the coalition government wants to devolve responsibility for local misconduct to local communities.
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They all want to devolve power over education back to the states, and, in the case of Santorum (whose children are home-schooled), back to parents.
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