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It was not least thanks to the effort of the protest movements that France has now made concessions on both these counts.
But how can these concessions, given under duress, be secured?
Hence the effort to nail down the concessions that the protests have extracted, the hour of governments has arrived.
We have launched a program worth more than $60 billion for highway and railway concessions, to be followed by a similar program for ports and airports.
But they ought to be making even deeper concessions on debt repayments, where the overhang still creates considerable policy uncertainty for investors.
If concessions to Greece create a precedent that other countries might exploit, so be it.
After establishing “facts on the ground,” Assad and his allies would be able to present the world with a fait accompli: Assad remains in power, without making any real concessions to the opposition.
While Merkel may offer the FDP further concessions, Lindner’s language seemed to leave little room for that, and the Greens say they are unwilling to compromise further.
Given this mission, it would seem that the IMF should help extract concessions from China and the rest of the world should declare a truce.
Whether China intends to stay put by building permanent structures for its troops on the plateau’s icy heights, or plans to withdraw after having extracted humiliating military concessions from India, remains an open – and in some ways a moot – question.
The third type of immigration superpowers are go-betweens, which use their geography to extract concessions from migration-phobic neighbors.
And with so many of their WTO partners claiming preferential status, developed-country members often resist trade concessions within the organization, preferring to conduct negotiations in other forums.
Palestinian and Arab opinion is waiting for the US, as Israel’s ally, to intervene and press for concessions.
Politically, it would be smart if German Chancellor Angela Merkel were to take the initiative in proposing such a grand solution, rather than being forced into piecemeal, reluctant concessions by new governments in Greece, Spain, or elsewhere.
Judging from the 14-point peace plan that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko proposed in June, the limited concessions that would be offered would not include veto power for eastern Ukraine over the establishment of a military alliance with the US.
The word Yalta, too, has assumed a life of its own, serving for years as a symbol of a division of the world by the great powers: of the large and powerful deciding the fate of the small and powerless without asking their advice, of inadmissibly pragmatic concessions or compromises by democratic governments vis-?-vis the overpowering strength of a totalitarian regime.
If Barack Obama’s administration plays its hand well, the result will be a last-minute extension of the debt ceiling with no significant concessions.
Stalin presented the crop failure as a sign of Ukrainian national resistance, requiring firmness rather than concessions.
They granted concessions to build new ports, in order to facilitate logistics activities around the Canal.
In the event, Zhao Ziyang’s conciliatory approach, which might have led to concessions, which in turn might have opened possibilities for a more open political system, lost out.
One hopes that the war drums will be silenced through negotiation and mutual concessions.
The risk, however, is that if China fears that the US really aims at winning the rollback game, and expects the rest of the West to fall in line eventually, it will refuse to make meaningful concessions.
Then, in the middle of the 19 th century, China suffered at the hands of European imperial powers, which gained technological and industrial superiority over China, using this to force trading concessions from the Ching Dynasty.
Poor countries won concessions on access to essential medicines; and they pressed for, and received, promises that rich countries would address protectionist policies in several areas.
And the EU would contemplate concessions only if the US offers some in return – such as eliminating its prohibitive tariffs on imported light pickup trucks and vans – and only if other exporters like Japan and South Korea go along.
Prime Minister David Cameron claims that the concessions he has won from Britain’s EU partners should lay to rest popular concerns about a loss of sovereignty to Brussels and an influx of foreign workers from Eastern Europe.
Making matters worse, concessions on either side appear to leave no impression on the other.
If negotiators on both sides view it as a credible broker of a lasting and balanced agreement, they may be more receptive to each other’s concessions.
In the last years of the increasingly unstable Weimar Republic, as democracy was fraying, German governments started to use their opponents’ radicalism in an effort to extract security concessions from the Western powers.
Indeed, although protests began on December 29, 2010, and went so far as a wave of self-immolations in January 2011, the spark of revolution faded after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was wise enough not to stifle unrest with force, made concessions – including, most importantly, an end to the 19-year state of emergency.
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