national capitals

The treaty stimulates interaction between the institutions of Brussels and the national capitals; it brings a sense of purpose.

The Germans do not want Eurocrats raising and handing out too much money without close monitoring from national capitals.

The Brussels institutions can project only as much influence as their sponsors in national capitals allow them.

To Brussels' irritation, Beijing has encouraged this by routinely circumventing the commission to deal directly with national capitals.

The mindset of the moment is that power ceded to the Union is authority subtracted from national capitals.

Proposals to strengthen the ECB's role at the expense of domestic regulators would run into heavy opposition in national capitals.

And changing the geographical location of national capitals could hardly be a bargaining chip.

Compared with national capitals, Brussels is admirably free with information and briefings once you penetrate the jargon and the procedure.

France wants to limit treaty changes to the eurozone members and retain more budget authority in national capitals.

Such libraries exist in national capitals and in a number of other major or university cities.

The Danube river flows not just through Budapest, but also three other national capitals - more than any other in the world.