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Voluntary export restraints were widely used in the 1980s – often by the EU itself, to counter competition from East Asia.
Introducing real competition in energy and telecoms, lacking in the privatization process until now, is also pledged.
This retarded competition.
Local access in telecoms, for example, will be open to competition beginning in January 2001.
Encouraging robust competition is essential because Spain must grow faster than Europe and so cannot be content with mimicking dozy Continental methods.
In order to catch up with the rest of the Continent in wealth, Spain must remain daring in four big ways:- Regulators and competition authorities must be made formally and materially independent of government control.
- Because political interference with regulation and competition policy (once old hat in Spain) makes companies uncompetitive, government must refrain from using regulation to control inflation as well as corporate activity.
Without improvement here the benefits of increased commercial competition cannot be fully reaped.
Here is an attractive, intelligent young leader of the Left with a belief in social solidarity and a strong social conscience -- but with none of the paranoia so evident in Europe about global competition and American domination and very little interest in the massive bureaucratic structures of trans-national integration which in Europe have become identified with left-wing ideals.
It will also liberalize the funds’ investment strategies, in order to increase competition and reduce excessive management fees.
So, instead of promoting growth, the "united economic space" will retard it by discouraging competition and investment.
But I do believe that, for these canards to be discarded, Russia and Ukraine must open themselves to global competition, not isolate themselves with each other.
One might add that there are still extensive impediments to competition in the service and retail sectors in many northern European countries.
Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Western powers have sought to control the Middle East for a variety of reasons, including claims on oil, access to international sea routes, Israel’s security, and geopolitical competition with Russia in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
“Contact,” whether between kids at a summer camp or negotiators around a table, can lead to greater understanding if engagement is lengthy and on neutral territory, outcome-oriented, informal, personal, and avoids anxiety or competition.
Obama’s Blunder at the BankNEW YORK – The selection of a successor to Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank was supposed to initiate a new era of open meritocratic competition, breaking the traditional hold that the United States has had on the job.
Even its name is up for grabs: the European Commission has just launched an open competition to come up with a new one.
People who grew up with its decentralization and free competition of ideas must find alien the idea of state support for large firms and industries.
But, given the danger of incidents that could grow out of political competition in Taiwan or growing impatience in the Peoples’ Liberation Army on the mainland, the US would be wise to encourage more active contacts and negotiations by the two sides.
There are aspects of growth that are like head-to-head competition, in which the gains of one country or region can be at the expense of another country or region.
The competition is fierce to attract the project, and usually involves tax breaks, commitments on infrastructure, and even promises about the engineering curriculum in the local university.
Trade integration exposed domestic banks and firms to foreign competition, limiting national governments' ability to intervene on behalf of favored domestic companies.
Similarly, the European Commission deemed subsidies to publicly-owned firms illegal if they distorted competition across member states, while the fiscal discipline imposed by the Euro ended pervasive general government credit subsidies--the essential lubricant of relationship-based systems.
The EU can buck this anti-market trend by promoting structural reforms in southern European countries and focussing on enlargement to increase economic competition.
But it should maintain a clear division of power between local and central authorities at all levels to maintain strong competition and a healthy diversity of interests.
Similarly, capitalism depends on competition, but competition can be brutal and destructive.
As a result, elaborate systems of laws are needed to ensure that competition is open and fair, that monopolies and trusts do not destroy competition itself.
Finally, top priority should be assigned to completing the Single European Market, in which the Union has powerful legal instruments to pry open markets and sustain competition.
Moreover, most markets for services - securities trading, wholesale and retail distribution, business services, and local utilities - remain sheltered from competition and free circulation rules.
There are too many walls erected against social mobility, competition, and fairness in politics and business.
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