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As for Europe, the Lisbon Treaty gives the European Union exclusive competence in investment-related matters, but no mechanisms have been implemented to exercise this authority.
A generally comprehensible constitution with a cogent preamble describing the Union's purpose and core ideas, and which defines the basic institutions of the Union, their areas of competence and mutual relations, is essential to stimulating broad public consent and support.
In such a chamber small and big states would have equal voting power, the Constitution defining each body's areas of competence.
Yet, in this phase of post-revolutionary stabilization, there is real danger that the central authorities, having strengthened the ‘vertical power structure,’ might interfere in affairs that are within the competence of the regions and local government.
Article 11 provides that the Union "shall have competence to coordinate the economic policies of the member states."
Article 12 places it among the "shared" competences of the Union;Article 10 provides that in this case "member states shall exercise their competence only if and to the extent that the Union has not exercised it."
The Snowden affair has blown up any illusion about trust between leaders – and also about leaders’ competence.
While the US political elite has not written off NATO, expectations about its crisis-solving competence are fast being scaled down.
For the same reason, the competence to decide upon the further allocation of competences had to remain a prerogative of the German state and could not be transferred to the EU.
It cannot reform labor markets, because this is a national competence.
As in the case of capital, what Europe lacks is not scientific competence, but the ability to translate scientific achievements into business innovations.
European scientific competence is not in question.
But European scientific competence does not translate into valuable business ideas - at least not as frequently as in the US - mostly because Europe's focus seems ill-directed.
After all, Lithuania's first rightist Sajudis government was no paradigm of managerial competence.
In a country that is much more educated than it was a generation ago, voters have come to expect a minimum level of competence from their leaders.
But this analysis gives credit where none is due: India’s problem is its top political leadership’s lack of competence.
Lack of vocational competence never barred Indians from remaining in their caste, and how well one performs in political office is, likewise, not a criterion for politicians to continue in positions of power.
A comprehensive public consultation and 32 thorough reports later, the audit has not resulted in any request for significant competence repatriation.
While no one doubts the willingness of Iraqi judges to try their former "head of state" in a national court, the novelty of such an effort and its political implications suggest some type of international participation for the sake of competence and, most of all, impartiality.
Even more frightening to many in the advanced countries is the real possibility that, beyond catching up rapidly in its technological competence, China could actually lead in one of the key industries of the future: artificial intelligence.
Though negotiation of an agreement is within the Commission’s competence, movement on the key issues requires the clear support of member states.
Will the world continue to finance this deficit willingly, to put its money into a country with such a demonstrated lack of competence in macroeconomic management (to say nothing of the corporate, banking, and accounting scandals)?
Indeed, persistent doubts among the French about Royal’s competence and Sarkozy’s character are the primary reasons for his dramatic rise in public opinion polls, from 7% support at the start of the campaign to 22% now.
Or are the proper criteria the leader’s character and competence, including his or her ability to inspire the country, choose good officials, formulate good policies, and implement them?
Admittedly, a leader’s integrity and competence are more difficult to measure than outcomes (such as per capita income, life expectancy, infant mortality, literacy, and crime).
Traditionally, society has measured business competence by a person’s intellectual ability to examine problems broadly and deeply.
A new standard for business competence that incorporates more than the bottom line will go a long way toward winning back the public’s trust.
I suspect that Okonjo-Iweala, with her enormous competence and renowned wit, would have gotten the better of Kim.
And while China, unlike the Soviet Union, has shown vastly more competence in homegrown innovation – Chinese companies are already leading the way in the next generation of 5G mobile networks – and its cyber-warfare capacity is fully on par with the US, keeping close to the cutting edge is not the same thing as defining it.
As so-called Fifth Generation leaders, they continue the steady progress in competence that has marked each of China’s leadership transitions since the emergence of Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970’s.
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