Comecon had no supranational authority to make decisions or to implement them.

The United Kingdom refused to participate due to a rejection of supranational authority.

Indeed, even if a supranational authority did act impartially, it would still, he wrote, have "to avoid all suspicion of partiality."

However, even though many enthusiastically endorsed the creation of a supranational authority, there was still concern about how much power such a body might have.

It is a moot point whether a supranational authority is also required.

The European region plays a vital part as the intermediary between the citizen and the supranational authorities.

Some of my colleagues think that we need to get out of this bad situation by imposing a central and supranational European authority.

We can easily ensure effective investigations without handing them over to supranational authorities.

Co-operation between States is not working, so a supranational authority is needed.

Instead, these people believe, some supranational authority should be set up to settle international disputes by rule of law.