The word 'intergovernmental' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe relations or activities between different levels of government, such as between two or more countries, states, or provinces. Example: The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that promotes international cooperation and peace between its member countries.
See articleThe International Organisation for Migration, an intergovernmental body, said that it feared 500 migrants may have drowned after the boat they were travelling in from Egypt to Malta was rammed by traffickers.
Tax evaders should rightly worry that FATCA will reveal their illicit activities.The work by the G20 and OECD on the common reporting standard for tax evasion draws extensively on FATCA's intergovernmental approach.
On December 11th the Mekong River Commission (MRC)—an intergovernmental body of the four riverside, or riparian, states (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam) along the lower Mekong held a public consultation over Laos's plan to dam the river two kilometres north of its border with Cambodia.Along with Vietnam, Laos's other downstream neighbour, Cambodia is unhappy with the Don Sahong dam project.
Importantly, Mr Giscard d'Estaing also seems "intergovernmental" in foreign policy, meaning that governments should have the final say.With the creation of the euro currency, now used by 12 of the EU's 15 members, economic policy has also taken on a new urgency.
One involves much more federalism; the other is a strict commitment to keeping the EU as an intergovernmental club, in which national parliaments and national governments are dominant.It is to their credit that federalists do not think voter indifference to the EU can be ignored.
In December the Mekong River Commission (MRC), an intergovernmental body made up of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, called again for approval of a potentially devastating dam at Xayaburi in northern Laos to be withheld until more is known about its effect on the lower Mekong.
It sprang from an intergovernmental attempt to create standards for interactive television and has been adopted by websites, musicians, some hardware manufacturers and consumers pretty much everybody concerned, in fact, except the big record companies.
For the same reason, let the (intergovernmental) Council of Ministers be "the strategic policy-setter", but "don't tilt the institutional balance and relegate the commission".Wider EU or not, Finland already sees the foreigners at it gates.
But the initiative may not be totally futile: given the impotence of Africa's intergovernmental bodies it will do no harm at all to produce an annual public ranking of African governance.
Though often their ally, they say, the European Parliament has the power to dismiss the commission, but bears none of the costs for its actions.Politics begins at homeThere is no neat solution to the problem of democracy in a system that is part intergovernmental and part federal.
Photosynthetic carbon sequestration is a game that anyone, rich or poor, can play.According to David Kaimowitz, of the Centre for International Forestry Research, an intergovernmental organisation, 15-20% of the greenhouse-gas emissions caused by human activity are the result of the degradation and destruction of forests.
