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The reality is that they were the perpetrators, not the victims, and it seemed particularly galling that they were continuing to hold a gun to the heads of governments, demanding massive bailouts and threatening economic collapse otherwise.
The study compiles advice from ministers of health, heads of national malaria control programs, academics, and community leaders across 14 African countries, all of whom offer critical insights about important challenges and opportunities in the fight against the disease.
The Green ParadoxThe protesters have returned to their home countries, the injured are licking their wounds, the heads of state are back to business as usual, and Heiligendamm, the old spa on Germany’s Baltic coast, is resuming its dream of imperial beauty.
On June 29, European heads of state and government committed themselves to the creation of a single European supervisor for banks in the eurozone.
The scale and urgency of this issue for developing countries was recognized by every member of the Advisory Group, which included heads of government, finance ministers, leading figures from the private sector, and policy experts, most of them with direct and serious experience in public finance and policy.
History does include some prudent and visionary male heads of state.
It would be unimaginable for NATO heads of state to go ahead with their planned leadership summit in Warsaw in June if Poland remains in its constitutional crisis, with the government disregarding the rule of law and the opinion of a respected international body.
In 2005, 150 heads of state and government at the United Nations unanimously supported an international responsibility to protect (“R2P”) at-risk populations, which in extreme cases could take the form of Security Council-authorized military intervention, as happened in 2011 in response to the behavior of Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime in Libya.
Enter this month’s European Council meeting: on December 19-20, heads of state and government from the EU’s 28 member countries will convene to discuss the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP).
Then, as America heads steadily down the fiscal slope in early 2013, the House Republicans would have a choice.
As the country heads toward an election later this year, the European Commission has sanctioned the widening of its structural deficit.
Disagreement among and between heads of state and the ECB over the Bank’s purchases of distressed sovereign debt have only added to the uncertainty.
If two-thirds of MEPs now approve sanctions, the file will be forwarded to the European Council – at which point European heads of state will have no choice but to address the matter.
That is as unlikely as getting heads on eight coin tosses in a row – a one-in-256 shot.
Ideally, heads of state will have teams of dedicated public servants to ensure that political decisions are made with a full understanding of their context and consequences.
Until recently, not even a kiss could appear in a Bollywood movie; instead, as the man and woman tilted their heads toward each other, the camera would pan to two birds pecking or two flowers brushing together.
Even non-democracies such as modernized China could accept this rule, because it would apply to heads of government, not ruling parties.
In looking at the roster of long-serving heads of government in the second half of the twentieth century - such as Stalin, Mao, Franco, Kim Il Sung, and Ceausescu - it is clear that an enforced international term limit would have spared the world considerable grief and turmoil.
For Roger Ticoalu, who heads the Stockholm city government’s events department, and his colleagues, the assaults were utterly shocking.
The EU’s heads of government need to understand the bigger picture as they prepare for this week’s MFF summit.
The Commonwealth’s Missed OpportunityMELBOURNE – Last weekend, representatives of 54 countries, mostly heads of government, attended the bi-annual Commonwealth Meeting.
It is questionable, though, how credible European heads of government are who promote such pan-European multiculturalism and at the same time emphatically denounce alleged “multiculturalist” illusions at home – as has by now become standard political rhetoric in almost all countries.
Crafting agreements is no longer the job of only foreign ministers or heads of state; it now must involve civil society, experts, international organizations, and the private sector – each of which has its own agenda.
According to new research by Theresa Schroeder of Radford University and Jonathan Powell of the University of Central Florida, female heads of state may be more likely to provoke military coups in countries where armies are powerful enough to stage them.
In fact, until recently, the only women who had become heads of state in Latin American countries were daughters or wives of political leaders.
That is why we are urging Commonwealth leaders to support the IFFEd when they gather in London later this month for their biennial Heads of Government Meeting.
But this is the view of only a small minority of leaders, notably former Prime Minister Abu Mazin and Muhammad Dahlan, who heads his own militia in the Gaza Strip.
The G-20’s Empty PromisesCAMBRIDGE – Talk about “exit strategies” will be high on the agenda when the heads of the G-20 countries gather in Pittsburgh a few days from now.
But promises by heads of government mean little, given that central banks are explicitly independent of government control in every important country.
The thickest file on his desk concerns the Lisbon agenda, an ambitious programme approved in 2000 by the EU heads of state and government with the goal of making the Union "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge economy" by 2010.
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