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So changes will have to be made within the existing treaties, which leads directly back to the British debate, because the British government is banking on treaty revision by 2017.
Free Markets For Free MindsWARSAW: Recently Poland experienced a typical -- and typically unfinished -- political debate.
Today, there are growing concerns about third parties accessing and manipulating Facebook user data; and before that, there was a raging debate about whether the government should be able to unlock devices belonging to suspects of terrorism or other crimes.
Conservatives, especially, fear that left-leaning companies in Silicon Valley will be allowed to decide what counts as acceptable debate.
In China today, as in the US 35 years ago, there is a debate about whether supply-side or demand-side measures are most likely to restore growth.
But too often the debate about China’s economy has been dominated by naive proposals for supply-side reform – accompanied by criticism of the demand-side measures adopted after the 2008 global financial crisis.
This is not just an academic debate between Western Keynesian and supply-side economists, now being played out on the other side of the world.
Sorting out the Debate on GlobalizationCAMBRIDGE: Confusion reigns supreme in the heated debate on globalization.
So who’s right in this debate which has spilled into the streets of Seattle, Washington, and now Prague, during the cycle of international economics meetings in the past year?
As we approach the global climate talks in Copenhagen this December, much debate has focused on the supposed conflicting interests of big business and the climate.
How extraordinary, then, to learn that one of the perpetrators of these crimes, Condoleezza Rice, has just led the debate in a special session of the United Nations Security Council on the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
Though we can now debate what the penalty for water-boarding should be, America as a nation, maintaining an odd silence, still cannot seem to discuss the sexual crimes involved.
The debate consists in how we define “harm” to others.
In the same way, the debate about the meaning of national sovereignty consists in what we consider “domestic” matters.
A Merkel-led CDU/CSU minority government would have meant open debate on all major policy issues and legislative proposals, enlivening the Bundestag and showing the public that political parties matter, and that a grand coalition isn’t essential to progress.
As the debate shifts from austerity towards measures aimed at stimulating growth, smarter taxation will be essential to getting the balance right.
Italy is having a similar debate about whether women’s clothes and behavior invite rape.
The connection between rape, male privilege, and female sexual vilification was one of the key insights of feminists in the 1970’s – an insight that they thought had been successfully applied to cultural debate about rape, and to law.
But no one should think that debate in democracies is always based on reason, or that democracy necessarily makes people more rational.
But reason does not seem to be getting much of a hearing during the current health-care debate in the US.
One can debate whether the EU is a stale champion of the rules-based liberal international order.
On the surface, the debate consuming Germany nowadays is about whether to turn away asylum seekers who have already been registered in other EU countries, as the federal interior minister, Horst Seehofer of the Christian Social Union (CSU), has advocated.
The attack on Kohl’s vision by nationalist forces could have ramifications well beyond the immigration debate.
But how the refugee debate plays out in the coming weeks will reveal much about Germany’s future direction – and about the future of Europe.
Consider the seemingly heated debate over how much capital banks should hold.
It includes a call for an annual European Council session on security and defense, as well as for a strategic debate about the purpose of EU foreign relations.
The traditional dove-versus-hawk debate is now crosshatched by an isolationism-versus-engagement cleavage, all of which is overlain with a deep mistrust of all government institutions.
Indeed, the Washington debate surrounding how to “fix Iraq” is irrelevant, because something that does not exist any longer – namely, Iraq as a functioning state – cannot be fixed.
In these circumstances, the post-Baker-Hamilton debate in Washington is largely irrelevant to the future of Iraq – though it continues to be crucial to the future of US power, prestige, and standing in the world.
In Spain, there is a national debate about independence for Catalonia, where national identity is strengthened by the fact that the majority of the region’s residents speak Catalan as well as Spanish.
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