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The judiciary has stood firm against the PiS’s assault on its independence.
Self-determination no longer means isolation, because achieving national independence nowadays means only to return to the world scene with a new status.
The best way to preserve the councils’ independence over time would be through top-down monitoring and control at the eurozone level, for example through the establishment of a European Fiscal Council, which would be responsible for ensuring that every national council fulfills its mandate.
Insofar as guilty individuals were concerned, on the other hand, we believed that people responsible for crimes should be judged by the courts, and the government, which stood for the independence of the judiciary, could not interfere with this.
The bluebrint provides for Kosovo’s “supervised independence,” maximum protection for Serb and other minorities, and a supervisory role for the EU.
Ahtisaari’s proposal is an acknowledgement that no agreement between the parties is possible, and that there is no constructive alternative to Kosovo’s independence.
But individually, a number of European countries – Spain, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia, and Austria – are skeptical or negative toward Kosovo independence, which raises profound questions about the EU’s resolve.
Serbia welcomes delay in the hope that this will stimulate violence by frustrated Kosovars, thereby increasing Europe’s opposition to independence and bolstering Serbia’s dedication to maintaining the status quo, or, as a last resort, to partitioning Kosovo.
Instead of repeatedly making clear that Kosovo independence is an indispensable requirement for EU membership – so important to Serbia’s modernization and Balkan stability – EU leaders like Javier Solana laud Kostunica as a great democratic leader.
Energy Independence in an Interdependent WorldCAMBRIDGE – When President Richard Nixon proclaimed in the early 1970’s that he wanted to secure national energy independence, the United States imported a quarter of its oil.
Energy shocks contributed to a lethal combination of stagnant economic growth and inflation, and every US president since Nixon likewise has proclaimed energy independence as a goal.
Verleger argues that energy independence “could make this the New American Century by creating an economic environment where the United States enjoys access to energy supplies at much lower cost than other parts of the world.”
A balance of energy imports and exports is only a first approximation of independence.
A balance of energy imports and exports does not produce pure independence, but it does alter the power relations involved in energy interdependence.
Today, scenes that would have been unthinkable in Hong Kong in 1997 – mass anti-China demonstrations, the election of anti-CCP radicals to the city’s legislature, open calls for independence – have become routine.
But when Scotland held its failed independence referendum in 2014, those who voted in favor had to accept that the democratic will of Scots at the time was to remain a part of the United Kingdom.
In the long run, this does not bode well for their global reputations, which depend on users’ trust in the openness and independence of their products and services.
Central Banks in the DockLONDON – On November 11, 1997, the Bank of England took a big step toward independence, courtesy of the second reading in the House of Commons of a bill amending the Bank Act of 1946.
It symbolized how the need for central bank independence had become conventional wisdom.
But when it comes to cooperating with the fiscal authorities, central bank independence is a hindrance, not a help.
Not surprisingly, the notion of independence for central banks that visibly aided specific financial institutions – and this at a time when society as a whole was under unprecedented economic stress – quickly became politically toxic.
But the pursuit of global objectives is difficult, bordering on the impossible, when central banks function under the kind of narrow, domestically focused mandates that independence requires.
But compromising central bank independence in order to enhance political accountability would be to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Some will say that the way for central banks to ensure their independence is to abandon macroprudential and microprudential policies and foreswear unconventional interventions in securities markets.
What central banks can do to head off threats to their independence is become more transparent.
India’s urban population has risen from 10% at independence, less than seven decades ago, to almost 40% today.
The rich, confident of popular legitimacy, can then use the independence that accompanies wealth to limit arbitrary government and protect democracy.
A Loss for Kenyan DemocracyNAIROBI – On March 27, eight columnists from the Nation Media Group resigned from the Nation newspaper, citing a lack of editorial independence.
This is a deeply unfavorable situation, which explains why the ECB, once obsessed with the risk that governments would coalesce to assail its independence, has turned into the staunchest advocate of fiscal-policy coordination.
Of course, this would change were Taiwan to push for independence, but it would hardly do so without a nod from Washington.
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