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China used to have a reform
commission
within the executive branch; the establishment of the leading group indicates the CCP’s commitment, and that of President Xi Jinping, to comprehensive reform.
Most recently, it has unveiled plans to write a new constitution before the presidential election, and its electoral
commission
has disqualified 10 of the 23 presidential candidates on flimsy grounds.
As former South Korean education minister and
commission
member Lee Ju-ho noted during our visit, teaching young people to think critically takes time, but the results can have powerful knock-on effects for a country’s knowledge economy.
I spent part of my life working on the problems of terrorism in Northern Ireland, first as a minister in the early 1980’s and, later, chairing the
commission
that drew up reform for policing and security in the Province as part of the Belfast Peace Agreement.
When former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, as a member of a British constitutional commission, suggested the United States’ presidential system as a model for India, the country’s leaders “rejected it with great emphasis.”
The
commission
argues that “top bankers dodged accountability for failings on their watch by claiming ignorance or hiding behind collective decision-making.”
“The risk of an exodus should be disregarded,” the
commission
says, noting that the advantages of being a global financial center have been accompanied by serious associated risks to the domestic economy.
By contrast, the
commission
argues, “there may be big benefits to the UK as a financial center from demonstrating that it can establish and adhere to standards significantly above the international minimum.”
In addition to the tough new regime of personal accountability, the
commission
would supplement the Basel standards on bank capital with a tight leverage ratio.
Yet a special
commission
appointed by President Barack Obama has just confirmed that the Guatemalan experiments really did take place.
Death no longer comes at the end of the process of dying, but - by decree of a Harvard
commission
- at the beginning.
The forces of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych foolishly stuffed ballots and intimidated the country’s electoral
commission
to an absurd degree.
If the necessary institutions remain unavailable, then at the least an investigative
commission
should be created to establish an evidentiary record while this is still possible.
Such a
commission
would afford a measure of preservative justice, enabling a more comprehensive verdict once the institutional capacity for achieving this is built.
As the new
commission
chaired by Romano Prodi takes over it should seize the opportunity to move the EU from an inward looking institution consumed with an economic agenda to an all-European political project.
Tackling Non-Inclusive GrowthMILAN – Several years ago, I had the privilege of chairing a
commission
on growth in developing countries.
Nonetheless, they have agreed that, within a year, a
commission
will provide different options and models to protect the German parliament’s rights while providing assurances to Germany’s European partners that the country will be a reliable contributor to troop deployments.
On the old
commission
headed by Romano Prodi, France was powerfully represented, with Pascal Lamy holding the trade portfolio.
A
commission
set up by the League of Nations and headed by a Swedish diplomat crisscrossed the region in search of a fair solution, but ultimately failed to find a neat dividing line.
Eventually, the
commission
recommended that the province be given to Iraq, but only because Iraq was supposed to remain under a League mandate for decades.
Around the same time, an important
commission
on Africa will issue a report to United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The very morning of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear station on April 26, 1986, the Politburo met to discuss the situation, and then organized a government
commission
to deal with the consequences.
The
commission
was to control the situation, and to ensure that serious measures were taken, particularly in regard to people’s health in the disaster zone.
One reason I believe that there was no deliberate deception is that, when the governmental
commission
visited the scene right after the disaster and stayed overnight in Polesie, near Chernobyl, its members all had dinner with regular food and water, and they moved about without respirators, like everybody else who worked there.
The proposed solution: a
commission
to recommend a path to balance the primary deficit (the deficit excluding interest payments) in 2015.
Now Obama wants to shift responsibility to an independent
commission
composed of Democrats and Republicans.
And, of course, the longer-term deficits, driven by baby-boomer retirements and rising health and pension costs per beneficiary, grow progressively worse thereafter (the
commission
will also recommend how to get the longer-term deficit under control).
This would entail reinstating pay-as-you-go rules and establishing an independent
commission
to submit to Congress amendment-proof (and filibuster-proof) recommendations for tax and expenditure reform.
By splitting the responsibility between the country’s two main parties, the
commission
would free its members from the pressures of day-to-day politics and allow them to concentrate on the health of the economy.
In announcing the first use of the law by a minor, Wim Distelmans, the head of Belgium’s federal euthanasia commission, pointed out that there are very few children for whom the question of euthanasia is raised.
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