Example sentences of "with the [noun sg] of ministers " in BNC.
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| 1 | One problem will undoubtedly be the growing demands of the European Parliament , backed by Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , to be given a bigger say with the Council of Ministers in setting broad Community economic objectives and in holding a future EC central bank to account . |
| 2 | His blueprint for evolving ‘ a genuine parliamentary democracy ’ will be discussed at a preparatory conference next spring which the European parliament will hold with the Council of Ministers and the bureaucratic Commission . |
| 3 | According to the joint letter issued by President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl before the second Rome summit in December 1990 , the idea seems to be that this power might rest with the Council of Ministers . |
| 4 | The preponderance of power within the European Community presently resides with the Council of Ministers and the Commission . |
| 5 | Its legislative powers were far more limited , although on paper at least its budgetary powers , with it jointly forming the budgetary authority with the Council of Ministers , appeared rather more substantial . |
| 6 | The latter was in practice obliged to pledge that it would consult and inform governments at all stages of any initiative , that it would cooperate more closely with the Council of Ministers , and that it would not seek in the future to behave like a government . |
| 7 | All the small states fear that any strengthening of the European Parliament , where they have relatively few seats in comparison with big brothers like Britain and Germany , will lead to a weakening of their influence by comparison with the Council of Ministers , which they attend as equals . |
| 8 | Summit meetings : Biennial , most recently in Djibouti in January 1990 , with the Council of Ministers meeting more frequently . |
| 9 | Whole groups of state-owned enterprises would be sold , with the Council of Ministers being responsible for each enterprise on offer . |
| 10 | The new 132-page Luxembourg draft retained references to a " federal goal " , to an eventual common defence policy , to a Commission reduced in size from 17 to 12 , to European citizenship as proposed by the Spanish government , and to the European Parliament having a right of " co-decision " with the Council of Ministers [ see p. 38154 ] . |
| 11 | Too much power lies with the Council of Ministers who meet in secret , making it almost impossible for the public , national governments and the European Parliament to follow their decision making process . |
| 12 | Parliament also passed a decree on state power giving him ultimate executive power , in conjunction with the Cabinet of ministers , with parliament as the republic 's supreme executive body . |