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So far, the only serious candidates to emerge for a Société Générale takeover are two French banks, Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas.
They could also give Macron more leverage to push through his reforms, by running candidates in national and EU-wide elections.
Both candidates are United States senators with little experience as executives, so their ability to manage the crisis has become a central issue in the election.
Obama is not only the first African-American nominee of a major party, but also one of the youngest candidates ever.
One should be careful, however, about reading too much into national opinion polls measuring the candidates’ popular support.
Thus, the two candidates’ campaigns are focusing heavily on a dozen or so states in which voters are closely divided and could sway the electoral college outcome.
In the United States, among the candidates still competing for the Republican Party’s nomination to challenge Barack Obama in November’s presidential election, Ron Paul stands out for arguing consistently that government is the problem, not the answer, with regard to banking.
In rural constituencies, opposition candidates defeated such EPRDF heavyweights as the ministers of defense, information, and infrastructure, along with the presidents of the two largest regions, Oromia and Amhara.
Croatia is already an EU member;Montenegro and Serbia have begun membership negotiations;Albania and Macedonia are accession candidates; and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo are potential candidates.
In Europe, where party discipline is strong and the parties, not the individual candidates, finance election campaigns, money plays a smaller role.
The latest election results also assure him the legislative numbers he needs to get his own candidates elected as India’s President in July and Vice-President in August.
In the short to medium term, that decline may create a vacuum and lead to volatility and heightened risk, because, as many have noted, there are few candidates to replace the US.
The head of Sciences Po, Richard Descoings, implemented a program of positive discrimination that favors disadvantaged candidates, such as those from immigrant suburbs and rural areas, and charges increased fees to wealthier students.
That appears insufficient to advance to the election’s second round in May, when the top two candidates will face off to determine the winner.
He will likely avoid vituperative attacks on other candidates, and make the case that France has more to gain from cooperative reforms than from declaring war on “experts,” the press, capital owners, union workers, immigrants, or other specific groups.
Bearing in mind the differences in their productive structures, sub-Saharan Africa and India appear to be the best candidates, given that they accounted for 1.4 billion of the world’s poor in 2008 and 60% of global population growth.
In Eastern Europe, Poland’s governing Civic Platform outperformed the nationalist opposition, while voters in the Baltic states, where the economic effects of austerity were the most severe in the entire EU, endorsed centrist European Parliament candidates.
The differences between the candidates are considerable, and highly consequential for American economic policy and the global economy, although enactment of their programs will depend on the makeup of Congress.
The most important differences between the two candidates can be summarized as follows:Spending.
Romney has said that he would not reappoint Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman (likely candidates: economists Glenn Hubbard, Greg Mankiw, John Taylor, and Martin Feldstein).
The leading Democratic US presidential candidates have indicated their support.
The number of votes cast yesterday for UKIP candidates still points to a hard fight by the government to keep Britain in Europe.
The Democratic and Republican candidates are doing all they can to distinguish themselves from an unpopular incumbent president and from one another in the remaining weeks before Americans vote.
Where the two candidates differ is on the timing and pace of this drawdown, not on its general direction.
Both candidates have stressed that an Iran with nuclear weapons would be unacceptable.
The candidates’ statements on Iran do suggest two different philosophies of diplomacy.
On other issues, such as trade, there are distinctions between the candidates.
There are real and important differences between the two candidates when it comes to how they would approach the world.
A third reason for the modest impact of international issues on voters’ choice of the next president is another surprising development: more agreement between and among the leading candidates than meets the eye.
There may also be latent concern about foreign policy in the attention being given to the quantity and quality of candidates’ relevant experience.
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