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In exercising their constitutional duty, senators should consider carefully their
criteria
for providing what the constitution calls “advice and consent.”
For the clumsiness of Chancellor Kohl in seeking to force the Bundesbank to revalue Germany's gold reserves (a fiscal fudge designed to allow Germany to meet the Maastrich criteria), and the fact that after the victories of Tony Blair in Britain and Jospin in France only Germany and Spain are now ruled by governments of the Right, should facilitate the search for a compromise.
An obvious starting point for a Hamiltonian Europe would be to set some standard limit for federalized national debt – perhaps the tarnished threshold of 60% of GDP that was mandated (without adequate enforcement) by the Maastricht convergence criteria, or perhaps a lower limit.
The problem is that the
criteria
Western governments are using to identify Russians worthy of investigation and even punishment remain overly broad.
By these criteria, Argentina became an upper-middle-income country all the way back in 1970, and then spent 40 years stuck in that category before reaching high-income status in 2010.
Under the proposal that was openly discussed in Frankfurt, in addition to the macroeconomic Maastricht
criteria
that have been in place since the euro’s launch, the quality of a country’s banking system would be used as an additional criterion for euro entry.
Instead of exploiting the current opportunity of unprecedented leverage over euro candidates to push them to meet the Maastricht criteria, euro incumbents are contemplating a new and exceedingly vague criterion based on the quality of banking systems.
The program will subsidize up to 100% of labor costs, and its success will be assessed according to two criteria: newly created jobs must serve a genuine economic purpose, and they must be a net addition to existing jobs, not a replacement.
Turkey wants desperately to be accepted into the EU, whose "Copenhagen criteria," approved in 1993, define what may be called the constitutional prerequisites of membership.
There are as yet no "Copenhagen
criteria"
to guide constitution-makers here.
But it would have to fulfill the EU’s “Copenhagen criteria,” established in 1993, which sets out the basic entry standards.
The Copenhagen
criteria
are met when the candidate country has achieved “stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and respect for, and protection of, minorities”; can ensure the existence of “a functioning market economy and the capacity to cope with competition and market forces”; and has sufficient “administrative and institutional capacity” to adopt and enforce EU law and “take on the obligations of membership.”
America meets all the Maastricht
criteria
for monetary union, which no actual EU member (save Luxembourg) can claim.
One possible reform would be to spell out clear
criteria
for when a country may use its veto power.
Clear
criteria
like “last resort,” “proportionality,” and “balance of consequences” would make it harder to use cynical diversionary tactics in the Security Council and elsewhere.
The best defense against these pressures is to operate according to utterly unambiguous
criteria.
They have also questioned the
criteria
used to select its members.
Referring to the key
criteria
set out in many discussions of traditional “just war” doctrine, he called it “a war waged proportionally, in last resort, and in self-defense.”
So until now, at least on paper, the EU refused to open enlargement talks with candidate countries before they fulfilled a set of burdensome
criteria.
Consequently, the prospect of entry into the Union provided little incentive to countries for which meeting the stiff
criteria
was not yet on the cards.
Prodi’s Commission now proposes to negotiate with any country that meets the political
criteria
(stable democracy and respect for human/minority rights) and not insist on the satisfaction of difficult economic
criteria
(a functioning market economy and readiness to withstand EU competition) as a prerequisite for negotiations.
Having relaxed the opening criteria, the Commission also proposes making negotiations more flexible.
The AIIB has not yet committed itself to fulfilling any of these
criteria.
Even before attaining EU membership, all candidate countries' governments had to start adopting measures aimed at meeting the Maastricht
criteria
within several years, because the new members had committed themselves in their accession treaties to adopting the euro.
It took it upon itself not only to meet EU membership criteria, but also push forward with other painful reforms.
The rules-based approach of the SGP is fundamentally sound, but it requires operational
criteria
that can be defined with some precision.
In order to minimize the risk of unintended consequences, regulatory changes should be straightforward and enforceable – tough criteria, given the complexity and dynamism of financial markets.
Back then, Greece conspicuously failed to meet a plethora of basic convergence criteria, owing to its massive debt and its relative economic and political backwardness.
To maintain competition is, thusly, not only a
criteria
for economic growth, but a matter of the good order of society.
He will not calculate the possible consequences of his or her purchase on the labor market, on the social system, and he shouldn't because markets would not function as an instrument to manage the complexity of a highly sophisticated economy if
criteria
such as these would enter market decisionmaking.
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