But much of the two-day meeting was devoted to drafting legally binding assurances demanded by Ireland to stage its Lisbon referendum re-run.
The union "will continue to fight the sale, and without worthwhile and legally binding assurances on terms and conditions, strike action is inevitable," Dave Ward, the union's deputy general secretary, said on the organization's Web site.
Their demands included: no-first-use pledges, legally binding assurances that non-nuclear states will not be attacked with nuclear weapons, taking weapons off alert and separating their warheads from the means to deliver them, and a new international conference on nuclear disarmament.
Rutte, who may be concerned about from Geert Wilders' anti-immigrant and Euroskeptic Party for Freedom, has asked E.U. leaders for "legally binding" assurances so as to allay Dutch concerns over the association deal, otherwise The Hague might have to block the agreement.
Cameron, who has said that any deal agreed with fellow EU leaders would be legally binding, sought assurances that the chamber would wave through the legal changes – a promise that the parliament's president, Martin Schulz, withheld.
Even though institutional claims of exclusive ownership are rare, given that the overarching intent of shared databases is to provide access to wider scientific communities, written and legally binding data openness assurances from the host institution should be considered.
While everyone agrees that these women were generally assured of privacy when they decided to give their children up, it is not clear that such assurances were legally binding.
But the assurances are not legally binding — something that has provoked fear in immigrant communities.
The number of affordable housing units must be revisited, with legally binding guarantees of 1-to-1 replacement and assurances that there will be homes for all current residents.
Although the pledge is not legally binding.
