His letter to Donald Tusk, EU president, last month listed four things: Britain to be excluded from the aim of "ever closer union"; reforms to promote competitiveness; protection for non-euro countries; and restrictions on welfare to reduce the "pull factor" for EU immigrants.
Whereas the Santa Fé school [ 3, 4] merely believes that new scientific strategies in the face of complexity in the end will bring us closer to the modern aim of ever more perfect knowledge and control, the critical complexity school [ 5- 7] points out that limits of knowledge are inherent to complexity, necessitating reduction and critical reflection on the normative basis for any simplification.
However, Barroso said exempting the UK from the EU's stated aim of "ever-closer union" would "require changes to the treaty and unanimity … [as it] was ratified by all the countries, including Britain".
Second, diversity would allow some useful competition between different economic and social models within Europe.With peace and prosperity established, the European Union can safely abandon its old aim of an "ever closer union".
They've just recruited two extra guitarists, and the super-streamlined, far-future riffing here can only help with their stated aim of "speeding ever onwards on a circular railroad to infinity".
With the aim of developing ever more capable diagnostics, the emphasis has been on designing smarter assays or improving the sensors themselves, enabling the development of more accurate and more sensitive molecular diagnostics.
Closing the gap has been the stated aim of Portuguese governments ever since, and progress has been swift: GDP per head is now 75% of the European mean.
The aim of Caudwell Xtreme Everest (CXE) [ 14] was to study, comprehensively and prospectively, a large cohort of healthy humans exposed to progressive, sustained environmental hypobaric hypoxia.
The government has achieved its aim of being the "greenest ever", David Cameron said on Thursday, in his first significant remarks on the environment since reaching office.
According to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, the aim of Germany's first ever integration law is to make it easier for asylum seekers to gain access to the German labour market, with the government promising 100,000 new "working opportunities", expected to include low-paid workfare jobs.
In a speech otherwise opaque about his aims, he made specific mention of "ever closer union".
