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Compared to these two models, Putin’s model of state-society relations looks like a divorce, or at least a separation: each side minds its own business and doesn’t interfere with the other’s sphere.
May has moved quickly to put in place a team to manage Britain’s divorce from the EU.
But an attorney attuned to the personality of her client still plays an indispensable role in advising someone contemplating a messy divorce whether to negotiate, mediate, or go to court.
In that case, surely an “orderly divorce” now is preferable to a messy split down the line.
That is how numerous referendum outcomes – in France, Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, and Greece – have been reversed, even when deeply emotional issues, such as abortion and divorce, were involved.
Parliamentarians were offended by press coverage of Queen Caroline’s divorce in 1820, and by newspapers’ mockery of King George IV.
In the 1860’s and 1870’s, they were appalled at how publishers boosted newspaper circulation by reporting on divorce courts (and the scandalous behavior of individual politicians).
For many African countries in particular, preparing for the inevitable divorce is not only prudent; it may be a matter of economic necessity.
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.
As with many unhappy marriages, divorce is not an option.
In particular, Canada-style solutions are inconsistent with both a successful divorce settlement and keeping Northern Ireland in a customs union with the rest of the UK.
Likewise, more and better-paid divorce lawyers increase GDP, because end consumers pay them.
Among other things, new legislation would make polygamy the rule, rather than the exception, and would deprive women of an equal right to divorce.
No matter the merits of their case, supporters of a smaller welfare state everywhere must divorce their cause from the cause of free trade.
The British economic journalist Martin Wolf thinks of Europe as a marriage kept together only by the high cost of divorce.
Making the Most of the Brexit DealPARIS – On December 8, the United Kingdom and the European Union’s 27 members settled on some key aspects of the Brexit divorce agreement, opening the way for the decision, on December 15, to open a new chapter in negotiations, focused on addressing the future EU-UK relationship and transitional arrangements.
Our critics also resisted envisioning a longer-term arrangement before the details of the divorce were settled.
A British decision to sue for divorce would add to centrifugal forces already in evidence.
The last thing he or she will need is to have America’s closest partner distracted and drained by a difficult divorce.
Furthermore, victims must be informed of their rights and, if needed, protected during high-risk periods – for example, during or after a divorce.
Like the Swiss People’s Party, Vlaams Belang feeds on popular resentment of immigrants – especially Muslim immigrants – of the European Union, and, of course, of the French-speaking Walloons, from whom the Flemish nationalists would like a divorce.
As time goes by, Israelis and Palestinians increasingly want to divorce themselves from each other.
In Western Europe and North America, divorce rates soared as married women poured into the workplace in the 1970’s and 1980’s, with women initiating most divorces.
Although divorce rates leveled off in the 1990’s, cohabitation and unwed childbearing have continued to rise.
In the US, divorce rates for well-educated women are now much lower than for less-educated women, and women with good jobs or who have completed college are more likely than more traditional women to be married at age 35.
Today, going to work decreases the chance of divorce.
Following this breakthrough, the first serious cross-party campaign explicitly aiming to stop Brexit, and not merely to mitigate damage by seeking a “softer” divorce deal, will be launched later this month.
An amicable divorce would be better than the current stalemate.
Of course, every divorce is costly; but muddling through would be even more costly.
Good riddance, they might say, once the divorce finally comes through; now the true Europeans can finally unite in peace.
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