That sort of powerful council could overcome the bureaucratic and philosophical divisions that have hindered reconstruction planning, the advisers contend.
But whereas during that period the difference between his shifting points of view had been only a matter of words, the difference was now reflected in a sharp division of bureaucratic forces which ran from top to bottom of an Administration.
Once again, however, tensions among Europe's faster-growing economies and its debt-plagued periphery is creating a bureaucratic paralysis, feeding investor fears that divisions on the Continent have not yet healed.
To judge by the bureaucratic manoeuvring beforehand, and the deep divisions between countries about the future size and role of Europe, the summit may mark a new low in what was once seen as the EU's finest achievement.
But the underlying principle (beside France's great number of fonctionnaires and their stringently meritocratic and bureaucratic orders) is France's rigid division between public and private on which the affaire of Dominique Strauss-Kahn turned the spotlight.
According to a report published last year by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, "There is a pervasive mood of discontent in the City with the FSA: people find it bureaucratic, intrusive and insensitive".Still, the current division of labour among the different American regulators is hard to justify.
Diocletian separated and enlarged the empire's civil and military services and reorganized the empire's provincial divisions, establishing the largest and most bureaucratic government in the history of the empire.
We can see that most came from the middle of the bureaucratic order (first, the department level and, second, the division level).
After graduating, Narain says, she would like to be an officer for the Indian Administrative Service, a prestigious civil service division working to make Indias government less bureaucratic.
