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...The French finance ministry said it was “absolutely in favour” of the EU effort to cut bureaucratic burden but that it had only just started discussing the legal technicalities of such a move....
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...The NIC, under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, has had multiple meetings with businesses, including in October, when it listened on how to improve Decree 38....
..., given Italy’s labour constraints, red tape and weak administrative capacity....
...Across the Himalaya, the freedom of the hills is disappearing under red tape....
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...One April morning, he arrived to find the workers in his carpentry shop had handmade a large Z out of Scotch tape in the theatre courtyard. It hung there on a workshop wall. He wondered what to do....
...It will also set a legal framework to simplify cumbersome bureaucratic red tape for the entry of troops into each other’s countries....
...the law firm DWF, that puts the lead authorities in an analogous position to the “Managing Authority” under the EU scheme charged with ensuring compliance with EU state aid rules — which used to be the Ministry...
...Joël Barre, a nuclear tsar appointed by the French government to co-ordinate the projects between ministries and EDF, says the target is a punchy one, but ultimately feasible given the Chinese experience...
...Add in ramped-up police recruitment and the Ministry of Justice expects the increased workload by 2025-06 will equate to a 14 per cent increase in expenditure....
...So when it comes for the Ministry of Defence’s perennial demands for more cash, or rather the armed forces’ perennial demands for more cash, he will be sort of Treasury-aligned on seeing off those begging...
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