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French President Emmanuel Macron just announced a draft 2019 budget that could result in a fiscal deficit above the EU limit of 3% of GDP.
But the delegates accepted neither this draft convention nor a scaled-down version submitted subsequently by the French.
For large banks, Liikanen would separate trading from deposit banking, while the ICB’s proposals, which are now incorporated in draft legislation in Britain, would ring-fence retail banking.
A draft of proposed changes submitted to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi assigns three key tasks to the Self-Defense Forces (SDF): effective response to new threats, participation in international peacekeeping activities, and defense against invasion.
The draft revision of the NDPO seems to recognize this, emphasizing the need for Japan’s own defense efforts, cooperation through the Japanese-US alliance, and contributions to multilateral missions.
The draft NDPO’s vision of a new, more adaptable, mobile, flexible, and multi-purpose SDF, with advanced technological resources and information gathering capacity, calls for a fundamental reassessment of the existing organization and equipment.
In conformity with the international community’s efforts to secure peace and stability, the draft also creates a core unit within each of the military branches, and establishes an integrated operational system.
Here is what a first draft might look like.
In fact, the 2017 draft budget law already includes urgent measures to fight corruption, trim the bureaucracy, and reduce tax evasion.
The very reason that led a majority of the French to say “no” to the referendum on the European Union’s draft Constitutional Treaty in May 2005 may lead them to vote for Bayrou, the most pro-European of all candidates.
This is why a subsequent constitutional draft included several new articles, such as one on blasphemy, which could be used to restrict individual freedoms and uphold the state’s Islamic character.
Recently, as a “final” draft was circulated for discussion, another political crisis erupted over a last-minute modification – in the absence of any consultation – of provisions dealing with the right to strike and freedom of expression.
If it does, its leaders must discipline the party’s radical wing and achieve a unified position on the ultimate draft.
What has emerged is an almost unanimous demand that the Tung government publish a detailed draft of the laws for one more round of consultation.
France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Portugal, in collaboration with the United States, presented a draft resolution before the United Nations Security Council seeking to condemn repression in Syria and put an end to the use of force against civilians.
The draft was a sugarcoated version of a previous text, proposed last June.
The draft called for a 30-day period to study the options, up from 15 days in the earlier draft.
It would also have shown the international community to be unanimous in its rejection of repression and committed to protecting the Syrian people (though the draft made no mention of military intervention).
The European Commission recently lost much of its standing in the eyes of ordinary Europeans with the vitriolic fights between the Council and the Commission over the defunct Stability Pact and the failure to approve the draft constitution.
A draft of the Protocol of Accession – under negotiation for years but not yet final – contains provisions that could change Chinese law and accelerate the construction of a legal system, a process that only began twenty years ago when Deng Xiaoping launched China’s economic reforms.
The draft Protocol contains language in which China agrees to establish independent “tribunals… and procedures for the prompt review of all disputes relating to the implementation of laws, regulations, judicial decisions and administrative rulings of general application.”
Although much activity is under way to draft legislation to reform administrative law, these drafts are unlikely to be adopted for years.
The draft Protocol does not yet require China to adopt rules to govern administrative procedure or the standards of evidence to be used by administrative agencies.
The Protocol’s current draft, indeed, falls well short of the necessary specificity.
A European “Maybe” for PalestineMADRID – On Monday night, the Palestinian Authority submitted a draft resolution to the United Nations General Assembly that, if approved, will upgrade Palestine’s status from “observer entity” to “non-member observer state.”
The draft resolution has evoked US President Barack Obama’s 2010 speech at the General Assembly, in which he expressed the hope to “come back next year…[and] have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations – an independent, sovereign state of Palestine.”
As a result, the draft resolution asserts that all of the key issues – borders, the status of refugees, control of Jerusalem, security, water rights, and the release of Palestinian political prisoners – would be negotiated at a later stage.
First, an international group should draft a worldwide strategy for food security.
As a means of bringing back this estimated $1.7 trillion in foreign earnings, the Senate Finance Committee’s draft proposals suggest the elimination of deferral.
As the Senate Finance Committee’s draft proposals suggest, the US should jettison its worldwide approach to corporate taxation and adopt a territorial system for taxing US MNCs’ foreign earnings.
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