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WASHINGTON, DC – A year ago, Emmanuel Macron’s decisive victory in the French presidential election, and his party’s subsequent success in legislative elections, caused many to breathe a sigh of relief.
Next year’s European Parliament election is likely to reveal more about the potential for such political restructuring.
This means that candidates in next year’s election are unlikely just to focus on domestic issues.
If the European Parliament election next year helps to advance this restructuring, this may end up constituting a large step forward for democracy in Europe.
The Eurozone Must Reform or DieOXFORD – With the election of a reform-minded centrist president in France and the re-election of German Chancellor Angela Merkel seeming ever more likely, is there hope for the stalled single-currency project in Europe?
And make no mistake: the election of Emmanuel Macron is a landmark event, raising hopes that France will re-energize its economy sufficiently to become a full and equal partner to Germany in eurozone governance.
Indeed, immediately after the election, the budget estimates for the next fiscal year are due.
When US President Ronald Reagan took office on January 20, 1981, he retroactively rescinded all civil-service job offers extended by the government during the two and a half months between his election and the inauguration.
Strengthening democracy means working with the Kenyan developers of a crisis-mapping platform that allows anyone with a cell phone to text information about election fraud or violence to a central monitoring station.
The Limits of DemocracyThe election of the militant and hitherto extra-parliamentary group Hamas in the Palestinian territories reminds us of what democracy cannot achieve.
But the constitutional convention, too, must be elected, and this election may run into the very difficulties that plague first elections to parliaments in new democracies.
Who could say to Hamas that unless they accept certain rules, their election is not valid?
Putin Made SimpleMOSCOW – Three weeks before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first election victory, in March 2000, his campaign released a book, First Person: Conversations with Vladimir Putin, based on 24 hours of interviews with three journalists.
President Barack Obama’s election two years ago positively shocked Arabs and empowered Arab democrats, who saw it as proof of America’s true democratic nature.
In December's parliamentary election in Serbia, the extreme nationalist Radical Party achieved the greatest success, and people being tried before the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, such as Vojislav Seslj, the Radicals' founder and long-time leader, and Slobodan Milosevic, were elected to parliament.
From Poverty to EmpowermentMUMBAI – As India gears up for its general election next month, it has some cause to celebrate: extreme poverty is finally in retreat.
Civil Society and Its New EnemiesPRAGUE - Genuine civil society is the truest fundamental of democracy, a truth often forgotten in the heat of election campaigns.
If some politicians seek ideological excuses for their unwillingness to reduce state power, they mostly argue the following: "People have chosen us in an election; it is their will that we rule.
Montenegro, Serbia’s junior partner in the Yugoslav federation, mostly boycotted the election while Albanians in Kosovo ignored them.
Kostunica’s election as President of Yugoslavia amounts to an incomplete revolution: many of the old guard are still in place.
Ecuador also may soon end its flirtation with populism: Rafael Correa’s handpicked successor did less well than expected in the recent first round of the country’s presidential election.
Japan’s leaders are perhaps counting on the continuity of India’s strategic policies, which would require the Indian government that emerges from next year’s general election to sustain the momentum of cooperation.
With the defeat of Scotland’s independence movement – not to mention Québécois voters’ stunning rejection of the province’s largest separatist party in last April’s election – that hope may be waning.
Medvedev’s announcement one day after Putin’s election on March 5 that the Khodorkovsky case will be reviewed is a hopeful start.
In this context, Emmanuel Macron’s election to the French presidency in May was a relief for Germany.
American Power and the 2004 CampaignAmerica's presidential election campaign is heating up, and with it the debate about American power.
But the subsequent difficulties in Iraq - and in America's foreign relations more generally - have placed that topic at the heart of the election campaign.
In 1992, the winner of the New Hampshire primary election argued that "the Cold War is over - and Japan won."
The American Leader We NeedLONDON – Around the world, America’s presidential election campaign has attracted as much attention as domestic political controversies in each of our own countries.
He goes on the stump in election campaigns and restricted himself to only two presidential terms.
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