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Refugees are not an Eastern European problem, a Polish journalist told National Public Radio in the United States, because these countries did not participate in the decision to bomb Libya (neither did Germany).
Trump’s Assault on RefugeesLONDON – The decision by US President Donald Trump’s administration to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has politicized humanitarian aid, threatens to add yet more fuel to one of the world’s most combustible conflicts, and jeopardizes the futures of a half-million Palestinian children and young people.
The Trump administration has offered a number of imaginative but unconvincing justifications for its decision.
A decision of enormous consequence – far greater even than amending a country’s constitution (of course, the United Kingdom lacks a written one) – has been made without any appropriate checks and balances.
In terms of durability and conviction of preferences, most societies place greater hurdles in the way of a couple seeking a divorce than Prime Minister David Cameron’s government did on the decision to leave the EU.
The idea that somehow any decision reached anytime by majority rule is necessarily “democratic” is a perversion of the term.
The greater and more lasting the decision, the higher the hurdles.
For one thing, the Brexit decision may have looked simple on the ballot, but in truth no one knows what comes next after a leave vote.
For weeks, the Russian government seemed to be dithering over the proper response to the plane crash, as if it were worried that the loss of life would be blamed on its decision to intervene in Syria’s civil war.
Even the “decision” to admit more than one million refugees in 2015 was really just a decision not to place barbed wire and armed soldiers at Germany’s borders (imagine the world’s reaction to that image).
Even a wrong or “unjust” decision can end a conflict.
The decision by Greece’s Syriza-led government is surely the stranger of the two, given that Syriza tends to favor robust state intervention in most other policy areas.
According to Mr. Duisenberg, there was not a single instance when an important monetary policy decision was delayed because of the need for consensus.
Though the decision in December to abandon the South Stream gas pipeline is a step in the right direction, it is far from adequate.
The decision, reached in less than 24 hours, left many Ivorians flabbergasted.
It will draw attention to the problems facing Latin America, but, more importantly, it will draw attention to their solutions , while allowing decision makers to focus on spending money on projects that do the most good.
Those who give credence to the rumor point to an early decision of his cabinet to allocate $17 million to renovate the Jamkaran mosque, where devotees of the 12th Imam have prayed for centuries.
It has taken the government to court in an effort to force it to reverse its decision.
A specific cause of resentment nowadays is America’s unilateral decision to re-activate the US Navy’s Fourth Fleet, devoted to Latin America, which had been decommissioned in 1950.
The decision has never been properly explained to civilian authorities in Latin America and is widely perceived as an aggressive act.
But the “war on terror” did not warrant the decision to attack a sovereign state and topple its government on the flawed presumption that it housed weapons of mass destruction and was linked to the 2001 attacks.
Unlike other commodities, the price of water is very often a political decision, subject to the influence of interest groups that lobby for subsidies.
The message to EU institutions is clear: It may have been a mistake to give you this task, but the decision was made, so your role now is to make the euro work.
At the international level, the UN Security Council’s decision to establish the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was also greeted with great confidence.
Whatever the economic merits of the decision, the Greek people’s voice rang loud and clear: We are not going to take it anymore.
Its recent decision suggests that it may already be feeling pressure to do so.
More than half of the 43 members of the Association of Small Island States believe that the decision to do nothing, to let ocean waters rise, can be considered tantamount to approval of murder.
Now that US President Barack Obama has taken the decision to do so, the EU stands ready to provide political and practical support to the United States to help achieve that goal.
People are discovering that Hatoyama is incapable of making – and sticking with – a decision.
For South Africa’s rhino industry, the court’s decision was a watershed.
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