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Macron’s campaign manifesto embraced the idea of more eurozone federalism, characterized by a shared budget for eurozone public goods, administered by a eurozone economics and finance minister and accountable to a eurozone parliament.
Escalating fears have driven US President Barack Obama to declare repeatedly that any Syrian use or transfer of chemical weapons would cross a “red line,” for which President Bashar al-Assad’s regime would be “held accountable.”
Either way, the recommendations would have the advantage of being better adapted to local needs – especially if the councils are accountable to national parliaments.
With such limited authority, there would be no need for the EFC to be accountable or democratically legitimated at the European level.
But the European Commission is not accountable to the European Parliament in the same way that a national government is accountable to its parliament.
There, the “Funding for Lending Scheme,” jointly designed by the Bank of England and the Treasury, seeks “to boost the incentive for banks and building societies to lend to UK households and non-financial companies,” while holding them accountable for proper behavior.
After all, their political impunity stands in sharp contrast not only to the United States, where officials are at least accountable to Congress, but also to China, where one might be excused for thinking that officials are less accountable than their European counterparts.
After all, doesn’t Europe deserve a government that is at least more accountable than that of communist China?
Under the constitution’s 18th amendment, signed into law by Zardari in the fall of 2010, the president was required to give up almost all executive authority to the prime minister who, along with his cabinet, is accountable to the parliament.
It also means holding media owners accountable.
Moreover, unlike its counterparts, the ECB does not face a single interlocutor, and none of the governments that hold it accountable is or feels in charge of the eurozone as a whole.
A private tribunal would hear cases and issue binding rulings, with no possibility of appeal to any court or other democratically accountable authority.
If there is another serious attack, the French will undoubtedly hold their leaders accountable for failing to protect them.
For example, South Africa’s international negotiators – executive ministers and senior civil servants – can compromise on just about anything, because they are not truly accountable to their population through the parliament.
The less accountable a government is to its people, the less it will do for the world.
Common political institutions, accountable to voters across the eurozone, would provide a democratic fiscal counterpart to the ECB and help cage German power.
To be meaningful, the message must be backed up with action: G-20 members must demonstrate that their policies are clearly directed toward restoring economic growth and creating jobs, and that they will be accountable for meeting their commitments in full.
Many hope that the SARS crisis will encourage China's leaders to become more transparent and accountable.
The key to this progress is stronger African leadership and more accountable governance.
They must hold their public health leaders accountable for their actions and demand results.
Empowered by their success in ousting former President Hosni Mubarak, and then sending the country’s armed forces back to the barracks, many are readily returning to the streets to hold leaders accountable.
But central banks were made independent precisely because it was understood that they would be held accountable for achieving their own objective of maintaining price stability, regardless of the economy’s underlying growth rate.
Duterte is riding high right now, but there are instruments available to hold him accountable, such as the International Criminal Court, to which the Philippines became a party in 2011.
They could argue that action is not necessary in a specific case, but they would have to do so publicly, thus becoming accountable for their inaction.
Instead, governments should focus on upgrading older workers’ skills, creating more opportunities for older and younger generations to work together, and holding disruptors accountable for the socioeconomic consequences they generate.
If managers’ business strategies fail to reflect their companies’ social responsibility – or, worse, depend on ignoring it – they must be held accountable, just as rogue doctors are (or should be).
A central bank, he argued, needs a very simple mandate that allows it to explain its actions clearly and be held accountable for them.
In the same vein, companies should be holding other organizations in their supply chains accountable.
America has become a country not “with justice for all,” but rather with favoritism for the rich and justice for those who can afford it – so evident in the foreclosure crisis, in which the big banks believed that they were too big not only to fail, but also to be held accountable.
It does, however, increase the costs for autocratic regimes of not having accountable political systems.
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