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Yellen’s
appointment
is particularly important, because she breaks the glass ceiling in the advanced economies.
In an effort to promote diversity and gender equality in the ECB, the European Parliament in 2012 blocked the
appointment
of Luxembourg’s Yves Mersch to the bank’s executive board.
Unsurprisingly, the European Parliament’s handling of Mersch’s
appointment
was widely ridiculed, and his nomination was eventually confirmed.
The more reasonable conclusion to be drawn from Mersch’s
appointment
is that no serious effort was made to identify qualified women early on.
The
appointment
of Adityanath thus seems to indicate that the BJP will employ anti-Muslim animus in its effort to consolidate Hindu votes in the 2019 national elections.
But if India’s Muslims feel deliberately shut out, as they might in the wake of Adityanath’s appointment, they may come to believe that they have little to lose.
While he called for humility from the BJP after the election, the
appointment
of Adityanath looks much like hubris.
Just when the world reached a consensus that Ahmadinejad was merely an instrument of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, Ahmadinejad appointed a Vice-President against Khamenei’s wishes (though he later retracted the appointment).
But amid speculation over the coming challenges and changes, the one new
appointment
that could make or break the EU over the next five years, that of the European Council president, has been completely overlooked.
The jewel in its crown is to be the
appointment
for a 30-month term of a full-time president of the European Council, which groups the heads of EU member governments, along with a foreign policy chief who will be backed by an embryonic EU diplomatic service.
The
appointment
of the Italian foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has been widely questioned, owing to her limited executive experience in foreign policy.
But there is at least one encouraging, if hidden, signal from Mogherini’s appointment: The fact that the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is also an Italian was not an impediment.
The most sobering message from the
appointment
process is thus that the member states’ leaders will not suffer anyone who might rock the boat and push integration forward.
The way the
appointment
was carried out – shrouded in secrecy, in order to avoid the involvement of member states – should do more than raise eyebrows.
The original chart (published here) shows clearly that business confidence dove at the end of 2014, well before the Greek election and my
appointment
as Minister of Finance.
President Barack Obama even announced last week the
appointment
of an “Ebola Czar” to manage the detection, isolation, and control of the virus in the US.
The next day, a federal judge blocks his appointment, claims and counterclaims are filed before the courts, millions take to the streets demanding the president’s impeachment, and no one is quite certain who is in charge.
Qualities like “intelligence,” “effectiveness,” “integrity,” and “collegiality” – words used by Miller Center Director William J. Antholis to justify Short’s
appointment
– have little to commend them when they are deployed to advance an illiberal political agenda.
Traditional monarchs still have broad powers of
appointment
and decree.
The key political change was the
appointment
of a new finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, whose selection by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi sent a strong positive signal to the Indian business community and to financial markets.
So Barkat’s decision to invite him into the municipal-government coalition is extremely disturbing, as is the willingness of almost all other putatively mainstream parties to approve his
appointment
without protest.
But the presidency of the World Bank is a rare presidential plum – an
appointment
that is not subject even to Congressional hearings.
While the US, the international community, and the Bank itself repeatedly emphasize the importance of good governance, a selection procedure that de facto leaves the
appointment
to the US president makes a mockery of it.
His recent firing of FBI Director James Comey, who was conducting an investigation into his campaign’s ties with Russia, and the Justice Department’s subsequent
appointment
of a special counsel to continue that investigation, has invited comparisons to the scandal-ridden final years of Richard Nixon’s presidency.
But, more important, it postponed the new government’s
appointment
by a day so that it could vet the incoming ministerial candidates.
For the American President, the
appointment
of Supreme Court justices is of major importance because the Court has the power to determine the course of affairs in important respects, as in matters of racial equality.
Omar Suleiman’s
appointment
as Vice-President (and heir-apparent) indicates that the army has accepted that Mubarak must leave sooner or later.
This must include making the
appointment
of federal and Supreme Court judges free from nepotism and political influence.
Salman, too, is a Sudeiri, but his
appointment
represented a significant change, partly owing to his relative youth (78 years old).
During this summer of “separatist” folly, the first proposal concerned the
appointment
of headmasters of schools in the Veneto region: the local councilors in the province of Vicenza approved a measure to reserve all headmaster posts in the province for northern Italian teachers.
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