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The Bonus RiskCHICAGO – In its July session, the European parliament approved some of the strictest rules in the world on the bonuses paid to bankers.
And “germline” gene editing – genetic alterations of human embryos and gametes that are passed on to future generations – is not approved under international law, and the overwhelming majority of countries that have considered legalizing it have eventually rejected the idea.
On “multiculturalism,” the difference was even starker – 65% of Leave voters were against it, while 86% of Remainers approved.
Only a fraction of asylum-seekers’ applications are ultimately approved, because most applicants are not politically persecuted but simply economic migrants.
It did so because, in the absence of a change in regulations dating to 1962 (a change that has been proposed by the Commission but not yet approved by the European Council), Brussels lacks the authority to force break-ups.
Fiat controls one of Italy's great newspapers, Corriere della Sera , which may become more friendly to Berlusconi with an ownership change approved by him.
This claim was strengthened in early September, when, for the second time, Kenya’s parliament approved a motion to withdraw from the Rome Statute, which established the ICC.
That’s why the Global Partnership for Education recently approved Chad’s request for an expedited emergency education grant of about $7 million to benefit both refugee and local children.
The US Congress still has not approved the IMF reform package agreed in 2010, weakening one of the most important international institutions.
LONDON – Italy’s government has approved a draft budget that would fund its expensive election promises by violating European Union fiscal rules for at least the next three years.
Shareholders at Tesla approved what corporate governance experts have called the “staggering” pay package of the company’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, whose “Trump-like ability to get people to believe in him and his preposterous promises,” as one commentator put it, has propelled the company’s share price to sky-high levels at the same moment that its bonds are trading at junk bond levels.
And on January 21, Sir Robert Owen, chairman of the public inquiry, announced his verdict: It is “beyond doubt” that the FSB agents Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun carried out the assassination, which was “probably approved” by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
ISTANBUL – Turkish voters had a clear-cut choice when they cast ballots on Easter Sunday in a referendum on 18 constitutional amendments already approved by the National Assembly.
The amendments were approved after a relentless campaign of obfuscation, misrepresentation, and vilification.
Because of the sheer volume of nominations, most have traditionally sailed through the Senate with so-called unanimous consent, a process by which nominations are placed on the day’s calendar and the calendar is approved in a single voice vote.
Yet the term “armed resistance” was missing from all the documents approved at the conference.
Having failed to institute reforms on their own, both have turned to the International Monetary Fund, which entered into an arrangement with Tunisia in 2013 and has just approved a $12 billion loan program for Egypt – the country’s first since 1991, and the largest ever for a Middle Eastern country.
How to Protect Workers Without Trade TariffsNEW HAVEN – According to a Washington Post/Schar School poll of Americans published on July 11, only 39% of respondents approved of US President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on foreign countries, while 56% were opposed.
Both morality and prudence demand that several criteria be satisfied before any use of force is approved.
The Europe 2020 strategy, approved two years ago in part to improve economic governance, is a good starting point, offering the basis for the “growth compact” that some EU governments have sought.
Earlier this summer, the US Congress, recognizing these gains and underscoring the strength of America’s commitment to Africa, overwhelmingly approved legislation to reauthorize AGOA for another ten years.
Clearly, both the Bush administration and Congress have recognized this intensifying partnership when they approved the India-US Nuclear Agreement.
Yet the Asian Development Bank – an institution whose mission is to reduce poverty – last month approved a new corporate strategy (ADB Long Term Strategic Framework 2008-2020) that is ominously silent on the importance of employment and social protection for the poor.
When the military ousted the Muslim Brotherhood from power a year later, many of the Egyptians who had been inspired by the Arab Spring democracy movement approved.
A European “Maybe” for PalestineMADRID – On Monday night, the Palestinian Authority submitted a draft resolution to the United Nations General Assembly that, if approved, will upgrade Palestine’s status from “observer entity” to “non-member observer state.”
Workers can collect unemployment benefits pro-rated according to their hours when their employer submits an approved work-sharing plan, while the federal government compensates the states for a portion of the set-up costs.
Many refugees are prohibited from working during their first three months in a new host country, and lack access to public integration programs until their asylum application is approved.
If it chooses to ignore such demands, the final agreement would be much more polarizing – and would be approved by Congress with very little Democratic support.
And, in October 2011, the House approved the much-debated US-Korea Free Trade Agreement with 59 Democrats in favor.
Of course, the issuance of European Treasury bills would require the approval of the Bundestag, but it would be in conformity with the German Constitutional Court’s requirement that any commitment approved by the Bundestag be limited in time and size.
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