This method allows policy across the bloc to be crafted where the EU does not have any formal powers.
The European Union has urged Greece to implement greater austerity measures immediately to tackle a debt crisis that has shaken the entire bloc.
The collapse of the dollar bloc, if it continues, will add to this exchange-rate volatility and in the worst case make it easier for beggar-thy-neighbor currency manipulation.
Could east Africa take off as a regional trading bloc?
As the largest former eastern bloc country, its clear view may also have an impact on others in the region.
Writers from former Eastern-bloc countries—Milan Kundera, for example—have often asserted that laughter and mockery were ways of saying no to that world.
The politician tried to disaffect every major voting bloc.
Any change in these laws requires unanimous agreement among all countries and applies throughout the entire bloc.
The Middle East's mad dog: Qaddafi's militantly pro-Palestinian and pan-Arab ideology brought him into close contact with the anti-Western bloc of Arab nations during the 1970s and 1980s.
The left bloc in Portugal got 10% of the vote in the European elections . . .
This regional bloc has fallen apart.
The existentialists, and all who thought that man should be studied as an individual rather than en bloc, noisily attacked him.
And East German citizens still Shared with the Bulgarians the reputation of being the most quiescent people in the Soviet bloc.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who has been shuttling between the two countries in recent days to secure a cease-fire, said the 27-member bloc was determined to act.
The other great casualty of the Fed's blunder has been the global dollar bloc.
One way was to group steel mills together as a negotiating bloc.
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