Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

In European Union nations, the national governments license certifying agencies, which are for-profit companies.

In the Airbus-Boeing WTO dispute, Airbus ( which receives outright subsidies from European governments ) has stated Boeing receives similar subsidies, which are hidden as inefficient defense contracts.

Further minimizing reliance on a single major partner, successive Czech governments have welcomed U. S. investment ( amongst others ) as a counterbalance to the strong economic influence of Western European partners, especially of their powerful neighbour, Germany.

Warfare was not between individuals but between their sovereigns, and the officers and officials of European governments and armies often changed employers.

By the end of the Early Modern period however, and the beginnings of the Enlightenment, many European governments brought in laws prohibiting many superstitious beliefs in an attempt to bring an end to the Witch Hunt ; this would invariably affect the release of grimoires.

The liberal government, which reminded European statesmen entirely too much of the governments of the French Revolution, was viewed with hostility by the Congress of Verona in 1822, and France was authorized to intervene.

Though it is the responsibility of municipal governments to provide people with healthy water supply, the Hungarian government and the European Union offer subsidies to those who wish to develop water supplies or sewage systems.

He is most respected for his efforts that helped spell the end of the Cold War, in the late 1980s when Communist eastern European governments toppled, and which led to German reunification.

While Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights does not prohibit criminal laws against revisionism such as denial or minimization of genocides or crimes against humanity, as interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe went further and recommended to member governments to combat hate speech under its Recommendation R ( 97 ) 20.

Hoffman's theory suggested that national governments control the level and speed of European integration.

Under the terms of article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights, governments are required to " establish a framework of laws, precautions, procedures and means of enforcement which will, to the greatest extent reasonably practicable, protect life.

The western allies, and especially Churchill, were suspicious of the motives of Stalin, who had already installed communist governments in the central European countries under his influence.

In July 1947, Stalin ordered these communist-dominated governments to pull out of the Paris Conference on the European Recovery Programme.

In 1996 European governments banned British beef over claims that it was infected with " Mad Cow Disease " – the British government withheld cooperation with the EU over the issue, but did not succeed in getting the ban lifted.

Krupp was able to hide this activity from Allied inspectors for five years, and kept up his engineers ’ skills by hiring them out to Eastern European governments including Russia.

During the period 1856-64 European merchants consistently evaded Liberian import and export duties, in which they were supported by their own governments.

The historian Ernest Gellner argues that Continental European countries were far more successful in implementing educational reform precisely because their governments were more willing to invest in the population as a whole.

The Marshall Plan money was transferred to the governments of the European nations.

He plunged into writing, speaking and lobbying the US Congress and European governments against Augusto Pinochet's regime, and soon became the leading voice of the Chilean resistance, preventing several loans ( especially from Europe ) from being awarded to the military government.

During World War I, European governments introduced border passport requirements for security reasons ( to keep out spies ) and to control the emigration of citizens with useful skills, retaining potential manpower.

This system is used in the Upper House in India, Australia ( Senate, Tasmanian and Australian Capital Territory Houses of Assembly and the Legislative Councils in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria ), Ireland, Northern Ireland ( assembly, local government and European elections, but not national ), Malta, local government elections in Scotland and selected ( optional ) local governments in New Zealand.

In the pre-modern period, republics are generally considered to have been a solely European phenomenon, and states in other parts of the world with similar governments are not generally referred to as republics.

As such, the FARC has been classified as a terrorist organization by the governments of Colombia, the United States, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the European Union ; whereas the governments of Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and Nicaragua do not classify the FARC as a terrorist organization.

The facilities at the centre, initially labelled ESDAC ( European Space Data Acquisition Centre ), were essentially a large mainframe computer or computers, which was made available both to its in-house staff and to visiting scientists and fellows who wished to use them to analyse and study the recovered data.

It was originally intended that CERN host the European branch of W3C ; however, CERN wished to focus on particle physics, not information technology.

On 14 September 2003, following negotiations that began in 1998, the citizens of Estonia were asked in a referendum whether or not they wished to join the European Union.

On 14 September 2003, following negotiations that began in 1998, the citizens of Estonia were asked in a referendum whether or not they wished to join the European Union.

Clay supported the Greek independence revolutionaries in 1824 who wished to separate from the Ottoman Empire, an early move into European affairs.

Lewis wished to demonstrate how Welsh heritage was linked as one of the ' founders of European civilization.

The fundamental impetus for this political transformation was a recommendation by the Council of Europe in 1990 that, if Andorra wished to attain full integration in the European Union ( EU ), it should adopt a modern constitution that guarantees the rights of those living and working there.

Gilbert, Sullivan, Carte and other Victorian era British composers, librettists and producers, as well as the contemporary British press and literature, called works of this kind " comic operas " to distinguish their content and style from that of the often risqué continental European operettas that they wished to displace.

However, in the Parliament of 1710 the Tories had gained control of the House of Commons, and they wished for an end to Great Britain's participation in a European war ; Queen Anne and her advisors had also come to the same position.

Finally, he opposed annexation to the United States and wished to entice European countries to recognize the Republic of Texas.

Appeasement was used by European democracies in the 1930s who wished to avoid war with the dictatorships of Germany and Italy, bearing in mind the horrors of World War I.

In January 1995, Lord Owen wrote to President François Mitterrand as President of the European Union to say that he wished to step down before the end of the French presidency.

" He represents ," wrote his biographer Tabarrini, " one of the most striking personalities of a generation, now wholly died, which did not resign itself to the beatitudes of 1815, but wished to raise Italy from the humble state to which the European peace of that year had condemned her ; and he succeeded by first raising the character of the Italians in the opinion of foreigners, so as to deserve their esteem and respect.

The customs of the church of Paris were imported to Athens, but few western European clergymen wished to be removed to such a distant see as Athens.

In 1994, Holbrooke returned to Washington to become the assistant secretary for European and Canadian Affairs, a position he held until 1996, when he resigned for personal reasons ( he had recently married the author Kati Marton and wished to return to New York ).

The European commissioner Poul Nielson said that the European Union wished to " fill the decency gap " left by the Mexican City Policy.

* File: not the esa logo. png European Space Agency – European astronaut Frank De Winne wished the crew a smooth journey.

He did not get along with the upper class and educated Jews there, some of them Austrian citizens ( called in Romanian " sudiţi "); led by the famous Dr. Iuliu Barasch ; they wished to introduce changes in the spirit of modern European life into the life of the local Jewry, which were at great variance with the beliefs and practices of the traditional rabbinic Judaism.

Automakers were free to design their lamps to whatever shapes and sizes they wished, as long as the lamps met the engineering and performance requirements contained in the applicable European safety standards.

The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore, who wished to create a haven for English Catholics in the new world at the time of the European wars of religion.

Chrysler was also only too keen to take control of the struggling firm as it wished to have its own wholly independent European subsidiaries like arch rivals Ford and GM.