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In the United Kingdom, Labour Party MPs have been stymied in their efforts to unseat Jeremy Corbyn as leader.
Those who led the British campaign to leave the European Union – such as Conservatives like Boris Johnson (now the country’s foreign secretary) and Nigel Farage, the right-wing populist leader of the UK Independence Party – are similarly disparaged for recklessly jeopardizing the future of the UK and the EU alike.
The third criterion for good leadership – competence – is not just a matter of how much knowledge a leader already possesses.
Whereas “The West Wing,” a popular political drama that ran from 1999 to 2006, portrays the US presidency – held by a sophisticated, cultivated, and humanistic leader – with a kind of longing, “House of Cards” immerses the viewer in a murky milieu of humanity’s worst impulses.
No European leader risks antagonizing the Saudis by raising the issue of democracy and human rights.
We believe that the European Parliament should commemorate her sacrifice by hanging a poster of her image on the external wall of the Parliament’s premises in Brussels, beside the poster of Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma’s democratic opposition.
China’s strategic “Made in China 2025” plan is a high-tech industrial policy aimed at transforming China into a dominant global leader in the industries of the future.
Why should the French undertake painful reforms when their newly elected leader has just promised to protect them from a strong currency and further interest rate increases?
In 1960 he was my deputy when I was a leader of the Swedish Liberal Youth organization.
In the Netherlands, support for the Labour Party, which chose an anti-immigrant leader, collapsed in the recent election.
The biggest winners of the Dutch election were pro-EU, pro-immigrant parties, particularly the anti-austerity Green Left party, whose leader is just 30 years old, and the social liberal D66 party.
To see why, one need look no further than the House Ways and Means Committee, whose current chairman, Paul Ryan, is a leader of the hardline Republican insurgents who had scorned Boehner for being too willing to compromise with President Barack Obama and House Democrats.
Boehner’s resignation, though viewed by some as clearing the way for a short-term deal to fund the government, merely underscores the limited ability of any “responsible” Republican leader to control the party’s increasingly fundamentalist caucus.
He was also attacked by a leader of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP).
Chinese President Xi Jinping is arguably the country’s most powerful leader since the death of Mao Zedong four decades ago.
In Austria, Norbert Hofer, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, is likely to be elected to the presidency in October.
So how can anyone believe that a leader who curtails people’s right to speak out can save a flawed democracy?
And one also thinks of the white supremacist, segregationist, nativist strain represented by former Ku Klux Klan leader, David Duke, whose noisy support Trump was so hesitant to reject last week and for whose constituency Trump may be a make-or-break candidate.
Uganda's leader, Yoweri Museveni, is vehemently opposed to homosexuality.
And no EU leader in his or her right mind could have any interest in that.
France is not the only EU country with an unpopular leader.
Last November, Volker Kauder, the majority leader in the Bundestag, bragged that “suddenly Europe is speaking German.”
While the implication that innovation and creativity are born only of conflict is extreme – in fact, Switzerland is a world leader in innovation – Lime makes a crucial point.
These moves follow US President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese products, many of which are on the priority list for “Made in China 2025,” President Xi Jinping’s blueprint to transform China into a global leader in high-tech industries like aerospace, robotics, pharmaceuticals, and machinery.
Asked about Moscow’s plans for a statue of Stalin, he pointed to Oliver Cromwell, the leader of the Parliamentarian side in the seventeenth-century English Civil War, and asked: “What’s the real difference between Cromwell and Stalin?”
The leader of the free world has made his home on the manic fringes of US political discourse.
For example, though Libya’s economy is almost entirely dependent on Western expertise and markets to produce and consume its oil, former leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi pursued a virulently anti-Western foreign policy.
The Kremlin was almost certainly behind the cyber attack against Macron’s campaign in the final hours of the election, and it was openly supportive of his opponent, the far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen.
But Macron will take advantage of his position as the very young leader of a very old country.
With his vision for France and a crystal-clear pro-EU agenda, Macron could become the leader who revives Europe’s economy and rebalances Franco-German relations.
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