The justice ministry added that that national interests were taken into consideration in the decision.
One must also show that the overall European gain manifestly outweighs individual national interests.
But we still elect governments to provide services for citizens and to protect national interests.
"For all its warts and flaws, the U.N. greatly serves our national interests, " Holbrooke said.
And where Pakistan's national interests are at stake, the military is aggressive against the Taliban.
National interests can play more of a role in such situations than shareholder value.
As a consequence, the factor motivating states' actions in international affairs is their national interests.
But legal obligations couldn't compete with Britain's belief that its national interests lay with the Arabs.
Like priest-confessors, Eurocrats are well-placed to see the grubby deals done in the name of national interests.
You've got a number of very important places in our foreign policy and in our national interests.
Not if both sides show flexibility and put their national interests ahead of a misguided national pride.
As often happens in the U.S., however, it may be difficult to separate national interests from commercial interests.
But the regulators' focus is on their national interests, not those of the world, or of the banks.
So the new Egyptian authorities are putting national interests ahead of Islamist ones, noted a chirpy Israeli official.
Sadat's decision to switch Cold War camps was a product of his own assessment of Egypt's national interests.
The cold calculation of national interests is a complex business, as any student of game theory can tell you.
The realist foreign policy doctrine assumes that all nations' foreign policies reflect their national interests rather than their sentiments.
Whether those MPs even see the survival of the euro zone itself as in Britain's national interests is untested.
Yet by concentrating on their own national interests, they may achieve more than any number of inflammatory public statements.
It behooves the House Republican leadership, therefore, to find ways to secure a renewed mandate without jeopardizing vital national interests.
"I've decided this pardon for national interests, " he said after a Tuesday cabinet meeting at which the pardon was considered.
Both Jordan's decision to embrace Hamas and its decision to expel Hamas stemmed from Jordan's assessment of its national interests.
With national interests subordinated to the whims of bureaucrats in Brussels, Europe does little of value in the international arena.
"It is hoped he would place national interests before whims and the urge to play to the gallery, " Mr. Hali wrote.
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It takes unusual leadership qualities to get European countries to agree to anything, let alone to act beyond their national interests.
In outline if not in detail, this is Mr Putin's preferred story: a tale of Russian resurgence and clashing national interests.
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Instead Mr Obama will be talking about America's national interests, in the hope that some of them may overlap with Russia's.
And - as the administration's critics make clear - such a state of affairs would be antithetical to US national interests.
Once upon a time, Europe's leaders understood that a nation's foreign policy was supposed to be based on its national interests.
Of course at bottom, we are talking about national interests and self-interest.
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