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Why France Will Sink Europe’s ConstitutionIf public opinion polls are to be believed, on May 29 the French will reject the European Union’s draft constitutional treaty.
In 1991, when the Netherlands held the European presidency, Belgium supported its far-reaching draft for a treaty of European Union.
The draft constitution completed last month has raised serious concerns, as it places excessive checks on political parties and politicians, while giving appointed bureaucrats and judges the power to overrule policy decisions by elected officials.
The good news is that the junta has agreed to put the draft to a popular referendum early next year, although that probably means that the promised elections will not be held until August, at the earliest.
In fact, there is still a worldwide downward draft on interest rates, with the ECB and the Bank of Japan still very much in easing mode, as are many smaller central banks.
Treaty revisions take time to draft – and more time to ratify.
The 22-page draft “outcome document” to be voted on at the September 19 High Level meeting – long on generalities and principles and short on specifics and policy – would do little, if anything, to improve refugees’ lot.
The final years of Jacques Chirac’s presidency produced mostly deadlock, crowned in May 2005 by the French “No” vote to the EU’s draft constitutional treaty.
Drugstore GeneticistLA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA – Back in June 2000, when the draft human-genome sequence was announced, US President Bill Clinton proclaimed, “It will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.”
Therefore, in assessing member states’ draft budgets, governments and the Commission would be foolish to assume that low interest rates on government bonds will be around for the foreseeable future.
A distinguished group of academics was assigned to produce a draft.
Obama's draft authorization for use of military force (AUMF) – essentially a legal refresh of the last AUMF in 2002 – has turned into another opportunity to showcase disunity in the face of crisis.
Obama's opponents are delighting in picking apart the threads of the draft resolution in yet another effort to discredit his administration.
Wordsmithing a draft resolution, it can be argued, is what legislators are paid to do.
While the European Union’s problems will not be resolved because France has a new president, Sarkozy’s vision of a simplified constitutional treaty to replace the draft that French and Dutch voters rejected in 2005 is more realistic than Royal’s call for a new referendum.
It set up a Convention, which produced a draft treaty, and soon an Intergovernmental Conference will try to take the project to a conclusion.
Egypt’s Monster in the MakingBRUSSELS – On December 15, Egypt’s draft constitution is due to be put to a referendum.
While the draft constitution does contain positive provisions, many are causing concern.
On December 8, the National Salvation Front announced that the draft “does not represent the Egyptian people.”
In India, for example, a draft mini-grid policy has languished for two years, while in Sub-Saharan Africa, good intentions are often derailed by bureaucracy and lobbying from big power companies.
Three years after the start of their revolutions, neither country has been able to draft a broadly acceptable constitution.
On the US side, Trump’s draft executive orders are not as draconian as their titles suggest.
That draft order targets, first and foremost, organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The draft order also targets the International Criminal Court, to which the US currently provides no funding, and peacekeeping operations, including operations in southern Lebanon that protect the northern border of Israel, which Trump seems keen to help.
China’s Syrian FollyNOTTINGHAM – In vetoing the United Nations Security Council’s draft resolution on Syria, China claims that it has acted in the interests of the Syrian people, a position articulated in the People’s Daily, the newspaper of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, in a commentary appearing under the penname Zhong Sheng.
Turkey would prefer that Kirkuk, with its large Turkmen population, be given special status in the forthcoming draft Iraqi constitution.
Significantly, two proposals that were most likely to meet German opposition – Eurobonds to pool risk and the transformation of the European Stability Mechanism into a bank that could borrow from the European Central Bank – were removed from his draft memorandum to European leaders.
Likewise, he expended considerable effort agitating against America’s military draft.
Even so, the draft bill continues to prohibit payment for eggs.
So the draft bill has been amended to allow lesbian women to receive donated eggs.
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