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Meanwhile, Spain played down the lack of any proposal for sanctions against countries that missed targets.

The commission wants to curtail political discretion in decision-making by changing the rules so it would take a qualified majority of member states to overturn a proposal for sanctioning a country.

Thus the court's decision is unlikely actually to change French or German fiscal policy: it will remain possible for the council to ignore any new recommendations for sanctions that the commission may make.More likely than a fresh proposal for sanctions is a fresh set of negotiations.

There is a world of difference between an American request in the UN Security Council for authority to launch an invasion of a stable country, and a proposal for sanctions under a Security Council umbrella on a regime that is actively slaughtering its own citizens in order to cling to power in the face of a popular uprising.

Although China has carried out United Nations sanctions against Iran, it also has worked hard to water down proposals for sanctions that have gone before the Security Council, where it has a veto.

Those responses could include the proposal of sanctions to be discussed in the Security Council.

A14 BUSINESS DAY C1-12 G.O.P. Toughens Fraud Stance Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, a Republican, endorsed a Senate proposal for tough criminal sanctions and expanded prison terms for corporate wrongdoing and securities fraud that go beyond President Bush's proposals.

On the proposal for a new sanctions regime, which Iraqi newspapers have previously described as poisoned, the newspaper predicted that the Americans and British would fail in their bid to round up a new anti-Iraq consensus and thus deepen the hostility engendered by the two nations' bombing of what they said were Iraqi radar installations around Baghdad on Feb. 16.

He also criticised the proposal for League economic sanctions because it would be ineffectual and that "It is all a question of real military preponderance".

MOSCOW — The Kremlin has long responded to proposals for tougher sanctions against Iran with arms folded and a scowl.

But proposals for automatic sanctions for clubs that relaunch as newcos have not been passed.