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Consider Gary Gensler, a former co-head of finance at Goldman Sachs, whose
appointment
as Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Sanders tried (and failed) to block in 2009.
But those same courts are under threat from an
appointment
process in which politics and apathy are increasingly determining who sits on them.
Moreover, the African National Congress, the majority party, exercises influence on the Judicial Service Commission, the constitutional body responsible for recommending candidates to South Africa’s president for
appointment.
The politicized nature of the
appointment
process has resulted in civic apathy: excellent candidates are refusing nomination.
Thus, when the JSC is presented, for example, with an all-male shortlist, it cannot help but to recommend a man to the president for judicial
appointment.
There are also initiatives such as the
appointment
by the governments of Britain, Germany, Indonesia, and Turkey of a High-Level Expert Trade Group, with Peter Sutherland, former Director General of GATT and the WTO, and myself as co-chairs.
With a sufficiently vivid imagination, one can see the long arm of Putin in the
appointment
of George Osborne as editor of London’s Evening Standard, owned by the Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev.
But in protecting his position, Arafat also blocked the
appointment
of a successor in his lifetime.
For starters, despite having another ten months left in his first term, Kim – surely with the US government’s blessing – asked the Bank’s Executive Board to accelerate the
appointment
process.
Unfortunately, none of these principles have applied to the
appointment
of past World Bank Group Presidents.”
Donald Trump’s Federal ReserveCAMBRIDGE – With the
appointment
of Jerome Powell as the next Chair of the United States Federal Reserve Board, Donald Trump has made perhaps the most important single decision of his presidency.
Obama has shown real leadership with this
appointment.
Kim’s
appointment
is a breakthrough for the World Bank, which I hope will extend to other global institutions as well.
The US
appointment
is not the end of the story.
Paulson’s
appointment
presumably shows that Bush is far more concerned about environmental issues than is commonly believed.
Based on surveys of local officials, patronage, not merit, has become the most critical factor in the
appointment
process.
Meanwhile, calls by major civil-society organizations, business leaders, and top academics for the
appointment
of an autonomous and effective attorney general and anti-corruption prosecutor have met considerable resistance.
Foreign Minister Mukherjee was treated rudely on his recent visit, with Premier Wen Jiabao cancelling a previously-scheduled
appointment
and the Governor of Sichuan Province failing to show up to receive a donation of Indian humanitarian aid for China’s earthquake victims.
SAN SERVOLO, ITALY – When Italy’s president recently vetoed the
appointment
of the Euroskeptic Paolo Savona as finance minister in the government proposed by the Five Star Movement-League party alliance, did he safeguard or undermine his country’s democracy?
President Sergio Mattarella and his defenders point out that an exit from the euro had not been subject to debate in the election campaign that brought the populist coalition to power, and that Savona’s
appointment
threatened a financial market meltdown and economic chaos.
And already, the Trump administration is blocking the
appointment
of new judges to WTO arbitration panels.
The best that could come from the
appointment
of Europe’s two new low-profile leaders is that it leads to better and more coherent management of the EU’s business.
President Barack Obama’s
appointment
of a “jobs czar” would also help to enhance the credibility, accountability, and coordination required to overcome today’s significant and rising employment challenges.
Europe’s Conscience PoliceThe story of the rejection last autumn of my
appointment
to be a member of the European Commission is notorious.
Nor did I did introduce the issue of homosexuality into the debate over my
appointment.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has found himself fighting a rearguard action to try to block the
appointment
of the arch-federalist Luxembourger Jean-Claude Juncker.
Despite partisan bickering, the opposition will not resist the
appointment
of someone with both the vision and the administrative skills to act boldly.
For example, receivers are paid unreasonably poorly in cases of limited assets; furthermore, the random, indiscriminate
appointment
of receivers sometimes leaves cases over- or understaffed.
The US is already blocking the
appointment
of judges to a key WTO appeals court.
Indeed, the
appointment
of Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen to succeed Ben Bernanke highlights an important point: What used to be a technical appointment, of interest only to nerdy economists, has now become a major cause of political tension, not only dividing Republicans and Democrats (it does not take much to do that), but even splitting the Democratic Party.
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