Having power or influence that transcends national boundaries or governments.
‘supranational law’
‘While initially established by national governments, supranational EU institutions develop a degree of autonomy from the control of governments.’
‘Thus, the EU is a crossroads where subnational, national, supranational, and international policy-making all intersect.’
‘We must break the present supranational controls over nation-states, by the financial oligarchy.’
‘The template constituted a form of supranational policy-making, in which powers were transferred from the national to the EU level.’
‘She warned that granting powers to the supranational institutions would lead to a ‘European super-state’.’
‘The ECB is a unique supranational organization with powers far beyond what we could have imagined sovereign states would delegate to such an institution.’
‘The defining characteristic of our age is not a shift of power upward, to supranational institutions, but downward.’
‘Effective supranational laws and bodies are needed.’
‘By this they mean ‘the multinational corporations, the supranational institutions and the other dominant nation-states’.’
‘The massive influence of the US within supranational institutions is also pointed out for the attention of the discerning reader.’
‘This is why supranational institutions such as the European Union are so important.’
‘The Commission is no stranger to criticism from those who don't like its decisions, and competition policy is arguably its most visible supranational power.’
‘This is because the EU has now reproduced the lack of transparency and distance from popular participation which is typical of these supranational organisations.’
‘The other pins its hopes on the transformative power of a supranational politics that will gradually catch up with runaway markets.’
‘More often than not, efforts to knit national economies into one supranational whole fall victim to obstructionism.’
‘At what levels should these forums exist - local, national, or supranational?’
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