The Nordic Council is a forum for cooperation between the Nordic parliaments and governments. The Council consists of 87 parliamentarians from the Nordic countries. The Nordic Council takes policy initiatives and monitors Nordic cooperation. The Nordic Council of Ministers is a forum for cooperation between the Nordic governments. The Nordic Council of Ministers implements Nordic cooperation. T...

Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: – to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus t...

When Health Ministers resolved to focus on continuity of care and health outcomes, they may have said more than they knew. What if they really meant it? IN THEIR JOINT STATEMENT of 5 April this year, the Federal and State Health Ministers acknowledged a widely recognised but rarely voiced truth — that past negotiations under the Australian Health Care Agreements (AHCAs) had focused more on heal...

With so many fish stocks under pressure, increasing catch levels for one population by 30 per cent might appear catastrophic. But European fishing ministers believe such a move might help tackle two problems. Fishermen in the North Sea will be able to catch more cod this year, but cod fisheries elsewhere around Europe will be further restricted. EU ministers agreed late last month the fish quot...

This paper describes the development and validation of a Christian Ministers Psychopathological Scale (CMPS) to facilitate early diagnosis mental health challenges among Ministers, especially in Nigeria. The study adopted cross-sectional design was carried out four stages. initial items were generated from an extensive review literature concerns raised focused group discussion ministers with Pe...

This report has been funded by the Scottish Executive, to inform discussions at the UK Bologna seminar. The views expressed in the report are those of the researcher and do not necessarily represent those of the Department or Scottish Ministers.

ay ii. ountnp, B.JJ. With foreword by H. Crichton-Miller, F.R.C.P. Independent Press Ltd. 8s. 6d. It is difficult to do justice to this book in a short space. Its very existence calls attention to subjects on which medical opinion is still sharply divided, that is the amount that ministers and social workers should leave and apply psychology in their everyday work. Mr. Guntrip devotes the first...

In this paper we propose a new method to evaluate the distribution of power between decision making bodies in the European Union. Conventional methods that measure the voting power of players, such as the Banzhaf, Johnston, Holler, and Shapley-Shubik indices, are insufficient for this purpose. They take no account, in an endogenous way, of the differences in the abilities of players to affect t...