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Other tools include suspending tourist travel and blocking fishing access.
The problem is no longer too much power in the president’s hands, but too much power in the hands of “veto centers” – including public-sector unions – that are blocking much-needed reforms, including in the health system.
The UN Security Council, backed by the US, Russia, and the other major powers, should step in with peacekeepers to restore Syrian sovereignty and urgent public services, while blocking attempts at vengeance by the Assad regime against former rebels or their civilian supporters.
They have come to recognize that powerful interests are blocking the necessary shift to clean energy, and they simply no longer trust that their governments are doing enough to stand up for the future of the planet.
At the Bretton Woods institutions, developed countries are blocking emerging economies from gaining greater influence.
The US is already blocking the appointment of judges to a key WTO appeals court.
It also published a list of Web sites that the Australian government proposed blocking, the extreme-right British National Party’s membership roll, an analysis of a major Icelandic bank’s default risk, and video footage of a US helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed 12 people, including a Reuters journalist and photographer.
But, rather than risk a full-scale crisis by blocking Italy’s 2019 budget, the European Commission would do better to push for more focused structural reforms in 2020, after the coalition parties have met their campaign promises.
These guidelines identify when a country, despite running a large current-account surplus, is pursuing long-term, large-scale purchases of foreign assets, thereby blocking exchange-rate appreciation – exactly the problem we want to prevent.
And it could compel Europe to overcome the political obstacles blocking solutions to longstanding problems, such as providing the cover needed for certain European creditors to grant deeper debt relief for Greece, whose already-massive fiscal and employment problems are being exacerbated by the influx of refugees.
Its many elements of Internet censorship – from blocking politically sensitive Wikipedia articles to filtering certain key words out of online searches – come together to form the so-called Great Firewall of China.
Such censorship carries implications beyond blocking citizens’ access to independent domestic news reporting.
Al-Shabaab is blocking most international relief agencies from accessing famine areas, preventing famine victims from reaching help, and forcing farmers back to their barren land, where most will die unseen and unrecorded.
These probes, which have the effect of blocking exports from targeted firms, cost Russian businesses $1.3 billion a year in lost exports--a huge loss in an economy that is hurting as much as Russia is.
The issue is simple: can France and Germany win sufficient support for a large stride towards a politically more integrated EU; or will Britain, which opposes such moves, succeed in blocking them?
Indeed, the time is ripe to offer assurances to the isolated Syrian regime that blocking Hezbollah’s rearmament, stopping Islamist fighters’ passage into Iraq, and improving the country’s appalling human rights record would bring valuable diplomatic and economic benefits, including a strengthened association agreement with the EU.
Those who ignore it, especially by blocking market forces, are making a tragic mistake.
On the ground, governments are often still primarily focused on blocking information about what they are doing.
A government’s banning of journalists or blocking of news and social-media Web sites that were previously allowed should itself be regarded as an early warning sign of a crisis meriting international scrutiny.
Suppose foreign investors wrote contracts providing that the expulsion and banning of foreign journalists or widespread blocking of access to international news sources and social media constituted a sign of political risk sufficient to suspend investor obligations under the contract.
Few people from these groups were found among senior managers, government ministers, professors, doctors, and lawyers, so that the suspicion grew that there are largely invisible barriers blocking access to such positions.
In nearly all strategic aspects of EU crisis management, Germany and France are blocking each other – although ironically, both are doing virtually the same thing.
To be sure, Pakistan could respond to such sanctions by blocking America’s overland access to Afghanistan, thereby increasing the cost of resupplying US forces by up to 50%.
Were immigrants and EU rules really blocking the country’s progress, implying that Brexit will open a path to greater prosperity?
In fact, blocking humanitarian aid, attacking civilians, and targeting sites specially protected by international law have become strategies of war.
By blocking Chinese access to technology, under the guise of national security, the Trump administration increases these costs, not just for China, but also for other countries trying to use trade and technology to advance their growth and development.
In Africa and the Middle East, local strongmen and Islamist extremists are blocking progress toward peace or unleashing more strife.
More important, actively blocking that step forces the political system toward a precipice from which democracy cannot return.
Trump desperately wants to bolster US manufacturing by repatriating global supply chains and blocking or curbing imports.
Throughout the 1990s, the oil and gas industry and its allies perfected the art of blocking America’s support for key global climate-change initiatives.
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