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...meet this week in Brussels to vote on whether to open accession talks next year. Roadblocks remain: France and Austria insist the summit statement should spell out a "privileged partnership" or lesser union if Turkey fails to make adequate progress in legal and economic reforms. Tiny Cyprus threatened to veto the talks if Ankara failed to give de facto recognition to the Greek part of the island state. Turkey complains that the invitation is "discriminatory" because it makes demands not made of previous E.U. applicants. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Turkish TV last week: "If the E.U. countries...
Somerville’s mayor said earlier this month that he would veto a divestment plan, and the manager of the city’s pension fund said a Board of Aldermen resolution would legally have no effect on city investments...
...Somerville’s mayor said earlier this month he would veto a divestment resolution if passed by the board, and the chairman of the retirement fund has said that the resolution would have no real impact on the fund’s investments...
...their term bill. Since students, and not parents, are the ones using energy in the dorms, making the fee “opt-out” will extend the power of students’ decision from the ballot to the term bill, while still allowing for the veto power of students and parents at the time of payment...
...clause that would trigger UN Security Council action if Iraq is found non-compliant. The Bush administration is unlikely to succeed, however, in getting Iran raked over the coals at the Security Council, or threatened with sanctions, for a number of reasons. Some are simply commercial: China, which has veto power at the Security Council, is fast emerging as the leading buyer of Iran's oil and natural gas exports, and the thirst for scarce energy resources of the burgeoning Chinese economy makes sanctions against Iran intolerable to Beijing...