Modifies a noun

• organization: International Coffee Organization The main intergovernmental organization for coffee.

• cooperation: Are Member States that favor a European Union as an intergovernmental cooperation ready to take a stance?

• treaty: It is governed by an intergovernmental treaty and has diplomatic status in its host country the United Kingdom.

• co-operation: Neither do I see any profit in pitting the European institutions against intergovernmental co-operation.

• conference: There will then be many months of an intergovernmental Conference.

• relation: Economic theory provides some guidance on ways to bring about workable intergovernmental fiscal relations.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: Drawn up not by European Union but by Council of Europe, a purely intergovernmental organization.

• predominantly: The EU of the future must be generally decentralized and predominantly intergovernmental.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: European defense and foreign policy will remain intergovernmental, and will therefore remain the property of the Governments inside the European Union.