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Since 2001, with the “Everything but Arms” initiative, all products from poor countries – with the exception of weapons and munitions – can enter the EU single market on a duty-free basis.
One lesson of Sadat’s initiative is that in protracted conflicts where deep emotions and historical hatreds are involved, when almost every conceivable diplomatic formula has been tried and failed, the shock of a visionary, generous, and imaginative step can open new paths.
Arguably, only a political “hawk” like Begin, a man with a keen sense of the dramatic and a political romantic with a beady eye to the judgment of history, could have responded in such a way to Sadat’s initiative.
That Begin was able to rise to the occasion had much to do with the psychological impact of Sadat’s astonishing initiative.
Sadat’s initiative transformed the conflict from a fight about Israel’s right to exist into a negotiation of interests between legitimate sovereign states.
This is the paradox of Israel’s existence: a sense of power combined with an ever-present apocalyptic fear of annihilation, reflected in its hostile reaction to any initiative that touches its physical security.
An initiative in New York to craft a Security Council resolution that only refers the Syrian situation to the International Criminal Court would not be enough to save many lives, but it might be a plausible first step at a time when few other options are available.
But the Council’s earlier referral of Libya to the ICC was an entirely different initiative, and Russia and China supported it.
Jain is now expanding to Africa, a promising initiative in global South-South cooperation.
They failed to advance their peace initiative with Israel, and are complicit in the blockade of Gaza in the hope that Hamas will collapse, thereby humbling their own Islamist oppositions.
In this context, a major American peace initiative in the Middle East is unlikely in the foreseeable future.
Trump’s about-face on China is of a piece with his “recalibration” on repealing Obamacare, reforming the tax code, organizing a large-scale infrastructure-investment initiative, and renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
They have not figured out that even more important than high school education or a university degree is self-reliance, initiative and entrepreneurship; without these attributes, education is like a car on square wheels.
Only the United Kingdom (which, like France itself, last resorted to the veto in 1989) has given any hint of support for the French initiative.
Brown’s ballot initiative this November would raise California’s top personal income-tax rate to 13.3%, the nation’s highest.
This initiative has received the backing of the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, the country’s leading Muslim, and the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Oneiyekan.
The talks with the FARC evolved as regional détente was followed by an ambitious initiative to address the root causes of the Colombian conflict.
We ask the African Development Bank to take the initiative in creating an infrastructure fund, an extension of the Mano River Initiative, launched in 2013, with the objective of furthering regional integration.
Krugman has suggested, satirically, that the necessary initiative “involves faking a threat from nonexistent space aliens.”
But the challenging strategic environment and legacy of failed negotiations call for a more daring approach: The EU should take the initiative in persuading its partners in the European Economic Area to offer Israel membership, conditional on the completion of a peace agreement.
Particularly by guaranteeing highly indebted countries’ sovereign bonds, the ECB has actually weakened the willingness to reform, particularly in the larger European Union countries, whose decrepit economic structures are an obstacle to potential growth, and where more room must be given to private initiative.
A completely fixed exchange rate rules out monetary-policy initiative, and consequently makes adjustment to large external imbalances very difficult to carry out.
According to early polls, one-third of Californians would support such an initiative.
Already, multiple reform proposals are circulating, including a ballot initiative to amend Proposition 13 that would dramatically ease existing restrictions on commercial-property taxes.
Bit by bit, initiative by initiative, many of the region’s powers are struggling to forge a coherent cooperative framework to enhance their security.
That is why the German G20 presidency has launched its G20 Africa Partnership initiative.
Only if the African countries “own” the initiative will it be a success.
After the Berlin meeting, the implementation phase of the CWA initiative will start.
To be successful, this initiative cannot focus on short-term results.
According to Heckman (writing with co-authors Jora Stixrud and Sergio Urzua), non-cognitive skills such as cooperation are just as important as cognitive skills, like reading or math, to improve labor-market productivity, because they enhance the capacity to take initiative and assert effective leadership.
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