(1) While initially established by national governments, supranational EU institutions develop a degree of autonomy from the control of governments.(2) Effective supranational laws and bodies are needed.(3) The massive influence of the US within supranational institutions is also pointed out for the attention of the discerning reader.(4) We must break the present supranational controls over nation-states, by the financial oligarchy.(5) This is why supranational institutions such as the European Union are so important.(6) The other pins its hopes on the transformative power of a supranational politics that will gradually catch up with runaway markets.(7) Thus, the EU is a crossroads where subnational, national, supranational , and international policy-making all intersect.(8) The ECB is a unique supranational organization with powers far beyond what we could have imagined sovereign states would delegate to such an institution.(9) This is because the EU has now reproduced the lack of transparency and distance from popular participation which is typical of these supranational organisations.(10) She warned that granting powers to the supranational institutions would lead to a ÔÇÿEuropean super-stateÔÇÖ.(11) The template constituted a form of supranational policy-making, in which powers were transferred from the national to the EU level.(12) By this they mean ÔÇÿthe multinational corporations, the supranational institutions and the other dominant nation-statesÔÇÖ.(13) The defining characteristic of our age is not a shift of power upward, to supranational institutions, but downward.(14) 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.(15) More often than not, efforts to knit national economies into one supranational whole fall victim to obstructionism.(16) At what levels should these forums exist - local, national, or supranational ?