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This register is out of commission.
My bicycle has gone out of commission.
We sell goods on commission.
Mary proposed a different project to the commission.
How much is the commission?
The commission has promised to take action soon.
He should work for the European Commission.
I get a three percent commission on anything I sell.
News and current affairs
WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS - Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle-aged child.
This would also involve making the choice of the European Commission's president dependent on the outcome of the EP elections.
Instead, I believe that the most important way to reawaken voters' interest in European elections will be to open up the election of the Commission's President to them, and create a genuinely Europe-wide political debate during the next election campaign.
Turkey has been given what looks like an ultimatum from the EU Commission: open your ports for ships from Cyprus within a month, or you may risk a halt to the EU accession talks now underway.
At the same time, the Commission's latest report on Turkey's progress toward accession notes that political reforms have slowed down, further calling into question the country's future EU membership.
The Commission's progress report will be dealt with by the European Council next month.
Such regulatory reform is now under consideration by the European Commission, and French support is imperative if the EU is to announce this month the necessary legislative moves to promote transparency.
We committed to shut down Chernobyl this year in an agreement with the G-7 countries and the European Commission.
This is exactly what the European Commission did recently by providing its first strategy for a post-Kyoto era, which will be discussed by the European Council next March.
President Barack Obama has appointed a bipartisan deficit-reduction commission, whose chairmen recently provided a glimpse of what their report might look like.
Around the same time, an important commission on Africa will issue a report to United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair.
In principle, the Commission ought to be slimmed down after enlargement, with fewer Commissioners than member states.
As requested by the European Council, I am developing, in cooperation with the European Commission, a strategy to shut down terrorist financing.
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the United Nations Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System urged that we design an efficient and fair system for the restructuring of sovereign debt.
Productivity growth increased substantially in these countries over time, which persuaded Continental Europe to adopt reforms of its own, often pushed by the European Commission.
It would seem that rebuilding confidence in the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission is economically more important than rebuilding trust in Citibank or AIG.
Nonetheless, the timing of the current ceasefire, which coincides with the installation of a new EU Commission, is advantageous, as is Putin's shortsighted emphasis on tactical victories.
But the EEAS ended up in a turf war with the European Commission, and outgoing High Representative Catherine Ashton did little to ease the tension, owing to her unwillingness to involve herself in intra-EU disagreements.
The new Commission, which its president, Jean Claude Juncker, has restructured significantly, could provide Europe with the strategic leadership it so badly needs.
In fact, Juncker has already expressed a desire to integrate incoming High Representative Federica Mogherini into the Commission's policy program.
But a restructured Commission is not enough to ensure a reset of Europe's foreign-policy strategy.
KABUL - Recently, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in Kudoz province reported the rescue of a young woman who had been imprisoned in her in-laws' dungeon for seven months.
The European Commission understands this.
Failure to do so, in the view of Goldstone's commission, should result in the Security Council referring the matter to the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
The choice of Libya to chair the UN Human Rights Commission adds insult to injury.