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Private investors – indeed, all Russia’s citizens – are watching and waiting.
For Turkey, the biggest prize was the EU’s commitment to lifting visa restrictions on Turkish citizens traveling to the Schengen Area, a move scheduled for June.
But the demonstrations were also motivated by a larger aspiration, one that is more difficult to achieve: that the day-to-day workings of government become more accountable, more tied to the citizens whom government is meant to serve.
There must be a consistent system by which citizens can protect their rights in daily life.
But it is increasingly apparent that effective development depends on citizens’ ability to hold public institutions accountable.
They require a substantial, ongoing relationship between citizens and the state.
And while reforms like the Lokpal seek to improve the state’s capacity to provide redress, there is an equal need to bolster citizens’ capacity to seek redress.
Not only did he successfully use networks in his campaign; he has continued to use the Internet to reach out to citizens.
Indeed, former French President Jacques Chirac won a place in French history by proclaiming France’s responsibility for the crimes committed by the collaborationist Vichy government against its Jewish citizens during the Nazi occupation.
Such a gesture would strengthen France both externally and in terms of the sentiments of its citizens of Algerian descent, whose difficulty in reconciling their dual identity has led some to turn to fundamentalist Islam.
If they do not, concerned citizens should demand that educators provide a justification for the policy that they do impose on schoolchildren.
First, to make carbon taxes popular, their economic benefits must be visible to all citizens.
If paid equally to all citizens, this would offset the regressive effects that new taxes alone might in some cases produce.
In other words, a car furnishes a steel cocoon that shields motorists from their fellow citizens.
As bad as anti-Christian violence and intimidation is, indifference to the plight of Christian groups under threat is widespread among governments, the media, and even ordinary citizens.
But cost-benefit analysis shows that freer trade is the single most powerful way to help the world’s poorest citizens.
Unlike in a democracy, where citizens elect their government officials based on whatever criteria they choose, in China’s selectocracy, the Chinese Communist Party chooses officials for promotion based on their ability to advance the party’s main objectives – especially growth.
Moreover, few African governments have even the semblance of a credible national plan for delivering affordable energy to their citizens.
To consider just one obstacle, no vessels suitable for installing offshore foundations comply with the Jones Act, which requires that work on such projects use US-flag ships, constructed in the US, and owned and wholly operated by US citizens.
But, more importantly for most of the planet’s citizens, global warming simply exacerbates existing problems – problems that we do not take seriously today.
His diatribes against Muslims and his self-proclaimed defense of “Dutchness” are all calculated to appeal to the basest ethnic proclivities of citizens.
What most concerned Spinoza was the way unscrupulous leaders could stir up religious passions and manipulate citizens’ fears.
Brazilian Democracy on the BrinkRIO DE JANEIRO – With Brazil’s presidential and state elections just days away, the country’s citizens are frustrated, disillusioned, and angry.
Conversely, several state institutions blocked a proposal by Egypt’s Central Auditing Agency for legislation stipulating citizens’ right to access information regarding corruption in any governmental agency.
Its officials had no compunction about meddling in a member state’s internal affairs – say, to demand the removal of elected politicians for refusing to implement cuts in the pensions of their poorest citizens or to sell off public assets at ridiculous prices (something I have personally experienced).
Yet many of its citizens recently faced eviction by Spanish banks that had been bailed out by their taxes.
Having promised that rapid consolidation would be good for growth, and having delivered recession, the European Union has disappointed its citizens.
It is now up to Japan’s government to win over its own citizens, by highlighting the difference between pacifism and passivity.
To be sure, there are still holdouts, like Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who replaced a carbon tax with a plan to tax the country’s citizens in order to pay polluters to cut emissions.
Indeed, with two-thirds of member states and a majority of European citizens supporting the Treaty, it cannot simply be abandoned.
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