"A European citizens' initiative is an invitation to the European Commission to propose legislation on matters where the EU has competence to legislate.
If you want real political corruption then you have to look to Brussels, where legislation that matters is drafted.
No important legislation that matters for the city moves forward; no progressive agenda for the state of New York is ever allowed to move to the floor".
Ever since, the frothy-mouthed attacks from some of the more extreme media commentators serve to emphasise that this environmental legislation actually matters.
In principle, the Bundestag initiates or approves legislation in matters in which uniformity is essential, but the Landtage otherwise are free to act in areas in which they are not expressly restrained by the Basic Law.
JAKARTA, Indonesia Indonesiaia's House of Representatives barely passed any laws in the first year of its current term, placing critical pending legislation on matters related to national security, welfare and natural resources on the back burner.
Although Mr. Maliki's Shiite-dominated coalition still retains a parliamentary majority, most analysts believe that any legislation on matters of reconciliation passed without the backing of the main Sunni bloc, the Iraqi Consensus Front, would be virtually meaningless.
It would mean that Scottish MPs would continue to vote in Westminster on the vast majority of bills and secondary legislation where matters have already or will be devolved.
Other than logic, philosophy of language and mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy, he was interested in the game of Tarot and its history iconography; voting procedures that would guarantee democratic representation; and together with his wife Ann, he critically studied British legislation in matters of immigration and refugees and actively engaged in the fight against racism.
But it's too late to change the legislation: what matters now is finding the right people to lay down the institutional memory of a job that could yet be a force for good, but might all too easily turn policing into a race to the populist high ground of authoritarianism.
