And national parliaments are charged with the duty of ensuring compliance with the principle of subsidiarity.
In 1994, South Africa held its first all-race elections for the national assembly and provincial parliaments.
Every response to the debt crisis has been subject to vetoes by governments and parliaments.
National parliaments will be able to challenge decisions that are the prerogative of member states.
The members of the Parliamentary Assembly are appointed by the parliaments of each member state.
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The ultimate goal will be to enlarge networks of Parliaments on Science, Technology and Innovation.
Labour supports the idea of fixed term Parliaments but terms of fours years rather than five.
In the new parliaments of Scotland and Wales, they rule in coalition with Labour.
However the mechanism, agreed by leaders on 21 July, has yet to pass most national parliaments.
The national governments and parliaments retain broad powers over health policy, rather than the EU Commission.
Vivian bought a pack of Parliaments on her way home from school one afternoon.
Labour supports the idea of fixed term Parliaments but wants four-year terms, rather than five.
Could national parliaments do it, or should the European parliament be given extra teeth?
Belgium is infested with politicians (it has six parliaments for a country of 10m people).
For almost all such national parliaments this will be a small committee who meet in secret.
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If the EFSF is going to purchase bonds then national parliaments will have a say.
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Places like Austria and Finland give their parliaments more say without tying negotiators' hands, he notes.
Campaign group Unlock Democracy welcomed the plans for a referendum on AV and for fixed-term parliaments.
But balanced Parliaments, coalitions, deals with other parties, are not our objectives as a party.
But the agreement still needs to be ratified separately by each of the islands' parliaments.
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Other countries, too, might want to give their parliaments a greater say in these important decisions.
Allowing the European rescue funds to put money into banks requires approval from national parliaments.
It was subsequently pushed through the parliaments of the member states without allowing any more referendums.
Indeed, Lisbon was explicitly designed to be ratified by national parliaments, and to avoid referendums.
Canadian voters, who have repeatedly delivered hung parliaments since 2004, have now accepted minority rule.
An alternative, and attractive, source of democratic accountability might be found in Europe's national parliaments.
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Those leaning towards a bigger role for national parliaments and governments naturally favour the first.
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It is up to national parliaments, the most effective voices of Europe's citizens, to make it work.
It's a politics-free alternative to actually borrowing the money and having to get the decision through parliaments.
MEPs were joined in the session by parliamentarians from national parliaments from EU and non-EU member states.
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