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Boris Yeltsin’s accession to power in independent Russia saw only a partial reversal, with his peasant-gowned wife, Naina, making public appearances at his side every now and then.
Taming the TigersBRUSSELS – Three years ago, Sri Lanka elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as president because he pledged to take the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the guerillas who have been fighting for 25 years to carve out an independent homeland for the country’s Tamil minority.
Unfortunately, in the wake of the revelations, Volkswagen has squandered what could have been a watershed moment for the company – a perfect opportunity to overhaul its broken corporate governance and bring in truly independent board members and fresh new thinking at the top.
The Tamil Tigers led a ruthless campaign for an independent territory against Sri Lanka’s government for most of the past three decades.
The government must also make every effort to establish the rule of law, including implementation of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, which calls for independent judicial institutions, and of the 13th Amendment, which devolves power to the provinces.
This requires coordinating policing and health programs within a coherent policy framework, investing in research and public education on drug policy, opening new programs to independent review, and standing up to ideological criticism, both domestic and international, with evidence and pragmatism.
While both the US Federal Reserve and the German Bundesbank had long been independent, most other European countries followed suit only in the run-up to establishing a monetary union.
In the years before the 2008 global financial crisis, independent central banks were seen as successful in controlling inflation; and countries with sizable fiscal deficits were especially enthusiastic about central-bank independence because they benefited from lower long-term interest rates.
Otherwise, China’s central bank must focus on keeping the exchange rate stable and doesn’t have a truly independent monetary policy.
Either it must live with the continued Pax Americana in Asia, for as long as it lasts, or face a more independent, nuclear-armed Japan.
Future US policy must embody a simple but powerful principle: America will engage with and support (through various kinds of foreign assistance) any government chosen through internationally monitored free and fair elections that then governs according to a popularly ratified national constitution, with compliance overseen by an independent judiciary.
Economic orthodoxy and independent actions have clearly failed.
According to a report presented to the Council of Europe, a pattern of violence and legal abuses directed at journalists has begun to take root in several European countries, threatening to stifle free, independent media with censorship and intimidation.
The Venice Commission, an advisory body of the Council of Europe composed of independent experts on constitutional law, described the new legislation, together with drastic changes to the Hungary’s judicial system, as a threat to fundamental democratic freedoms.
And governments must urgently move to safeguard independent media – and thus their citizens’ access to the information that they need make informed decisions.
Even so, this development is still significant by Syrian standards, as independent initiatives are traditionally frowned upon.
But even as such crackdowns continue, more private independent initiatives are bubbling to the surface.
This allowed a string of independent states to emerge from the former Russian Empire’s western flank.
It should also consider adding an optional “two-key” system, in which an independent signoff from a separate account is required before a proposed tweet is broadcast.
The transitional independent privatization agency proposed by Jean-Claude Juncker for paying the Greek debt is not a good idea.
This is because most individuals who find work through digital job platforms operate as independent contractors, leaving them without the benefits and protections provided in standard employment contracts for full-time and part-time workers.
The difference between the cost of a full-time employee with benefits and an independent contractor can be 30% or more, so there is a strong incentive for companies to replace workers on standard full-time employment contracts with independent contractors as long as companies can attract the talent they need.
One tier will be populated by fully employed high-skill workers with generous employer-provided (and tax-advantaged) benefits, as well as high-skill individuals who finance their own benefits from high incomes earned as independent contractors or from self-employment.
The same is true of ballot initiatives, referenda, and independent candidacies, all of which were non-existent until the recent reform.
Reelection is permitted only for candidates nominated by the same party for which they originally ran, and the enabling legislation for independent candidates, ballot initiatives, and referenda remains unclear.
A separate and entirely independent report by the International Crisis Group came to much the same conclusion.
In the ten years prior to the 2008 financial crisis, independent central banks set an inflation target of about 2%, in order to provide economies with a price-stability “anchor."
An independent committee of experts convened by the World Health Organization found that the tobacco industry used creative, secretive, and effective tactics to divert the WHO’s focus from NCDs for years.
In order to catch up with the rest of the Continent in wealth, Spain must remain daring in four big ways:- Regulators and competition authorities must be made formally and materially independent of government control.
The right to independent nuclear research and development under the NPT is not disputed.
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