There was also bureaucratic resistance from existing regulators.

Many Europeans now resent the expanding powers of EU bureaucracy.

The legal system is clear and business bureaucracy less than most countries.

Obtaining approvals is a lengthy process that involves substantial documentation and tedious bureaucratic procedures.

It is no longer a traumatic experience, just a bureaucratic hassle.

But the initiative cannot fulfill its great promise as long as it stays within the Brussels bureaucracy.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

To put it simply, a sound management system cannot operate with rigid bureaucratic structures and institutional inflexibilities.

Instead, the West chose to pursue only a tactical relationship with Russia s post Soviet bureaucracy.

The six states do not have the time or the inclination to swallow the EU s bureaucracy in one gulp.

The country can no longer provide enough government stipends in the form of bureaucratic posts for college graduates.

So an impatient concern for water quality would raise a tadpole bureaucrat in a sample of water in which they're interested.

The counter pressure, of course, is that EU officialdom feels unloved and unappreciated.

As happened during the Cold War, a bureaucratic crisis suddenly exposed the mechanisms by which this elite has wielded power.

Without this conviction the letter of the law is nothing but a mask for bureaucratic caprice and authoritarian will.

Only then will the young people feel the presence of what otherwise might be thought of as an impenetrable, inaccessible and distant bureaucracy.

It seemed, however, that the United Nations had been moving slowly and that the establishment of a register had stalled within the United Nations bureaucracy.

The empire had a centralised, bureaucratic administration under the Emperor and a large professional army and civil services, inspiring similar developments in later empires.

She suggested that there was a need to rethink the format and presentation of the reports of mandate holders in order to ensure that they remained of high quality and were not curtailed for reasons of bureaucratic formality.

And it can be fun! That's the point of this talk it needn't be sterile. It needn't be bureaucratically untenable.

These people emerged under conditions created in deeply inequitable societies by a misapplied, inconsistent, and bureaucratic war.

While some organizations had adopted harmonized procedures and common tools, they tended to retain their own administrative requirements, creating additional bureaucratic burdens for Governments and the United Nations system.

Ironically, in both Europe and North America, the designation organic is itself a synthetic bureaucratic construct and it makes little sense.

Meanwhile, Russia s troubles remain hidden behind the strong arm tactics and oil bloated coffers of Putin s autocratic bureaucracy.

The real power, people suspect, is lodged elsewhere on Wall Street, in the unelected EU bureaucracy, in the Royal Thai Army and the Royal Palace.

Avoiding that Agenda 21 might become a new bureaucratic mechanism but making all efforts for it to become a catalytic factor for developing civil society.

The model s decadence is now so clear that Raúl Castro s government has begun heavy cuts in Cuba s enormous state bureaucracy and has allowed a limited number of private businesses.

Without this, what kind of a union would the EU be? Otherwise, what, precisely, do the new countries get out of membership other than the nagging intrusions of the Brussels bureaucracy?

Individual farmers do not need any bureaucratic directive to decide whether to plant more potatoes an increase in prices creates an incentive to plant more potatoes a decrease in prices is a signal that they should plant less.

Many early Muslim reformists were clerics or senior bureaucrats, who had seen first hand how diminished their societies had become. More importantly, they were members of a tiny minority that had been educated in the written heritage of Islam.

In some cases for example, in Nepal unnecessary bureaucratic measures have been introduced to impede access, such as cumbersome registration processes for humanitarian organizations.

Brazil is still an enormously bureaucratic country, with an educational system in crisis, very high taxes, mediocre infrastructure, impediments to the creation of businesses, and a high level of corruption.

The IMF has said and done all the right things since the crisis. It has acted as quickly as any international bureaucracy can to establish new lines of credit for battered emerging market countries.

The second example is the Secretary General's proposal to create a Peacebuilding Commission, a bureaucratic apparatus, with its headquarters in the Secretariat, that, according to the recommendations, would be composed of nothing more or less than a sub grouping of the members of the Security Council.

All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

With policymaking fully nontransparent and reduced to a very closed circle, and implementation delegated to an unaccountable bureaucracy, the inevitable result of Putin s political model was pervasive corruption.

They steered clear of establishing a heavy budget fueled bureaucracy, leaving respective ministries to handle administering the accord. In 2008, Mercosur intra regional exports reached 41.6 billion, up by 28.4 from 2007.

Along with its restraints on liberty and its dramatic increase in the power of the Kremlin bureaucracy, Putin has overseen the rise of a Russian middle class that has become increasingly similar to Western middle classes.

The substantive value added of having UNOPS as an executing agency under the RCF RP is unclear and largely preserved for bureaucratic reasons.

Indeed, contrary to popular belief outside China, the Chinese state is not monolithic it is a highly complex bureaucracy with many layers of government and quasi government institutions that do not always conform to central directives.

On another level, however, state bureaucracies are very different from private sector organizations, for they have their own characteristics and objectives, which will be endangered were they are reduced to quantitative standards of performance and efficiency.

It is alleged that before and during the trial, all the evidence in the case file was kept in a room under the court's control, and that the defence lawyers could access this room only after going through a bureaucratic procedure.

Indeed, the official figures were so unreliable that Eurostat felt forced to express reservation on the data reported by Greece due to significant uncertainties over the figures notified by the Greek statistical authorities a stiff rebuke in bureaucratic language.

Given that promoting sustainable urbanization and improving coordination would bolster progress in other priority areas (including women s rights, climate change, youth unemployment, and literacy), sustainable urbanization must become a bureaucratic priority.

Thatcherism was not really much of an ideology it was more a gut reaction to the stagnant 1970's, an attempt to loosen the bureaucratic straitjacket of the state and to reveal that not everything that arose from state benevolence was good.