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At its core, a democratic system is simply a legal framework – underpinned by a constitution – that facilitates discussion and dispute resolution.
If we also take into account the strengthening of social services and legal policies launched last month, France’s stimulus in 2009 totals more than 2% of its GDP, with committed future outflows equaling the US.
Specifically, the plan would grant permanent legal status and a path to citizenship for 1.8 million people who were brought or sent to the country illegally as children.
In exchange, Trump wants an additional $25 billion for security on the border with Mexico – including his promised wall – and reforms to limit family-based legal immigration and favor higher-skilled workers, which is the norm in most developed countries.
States certainly have the legal authority to adopt policies that are at odds with federal policy.
So, the rhetoric of “resistance” to Trump is likely to become even more heated – and the courts are likely to find themselves ever busier sorting out what is and is not legal.
The market for low-cost legal services in Accra, Ghana, provides another interesting example.
That alleyway is a platform, bringing together multiple sellers of separate legal services together with buyers, in contrast to a traditional law firm, which requires clients to purchase multiple services from the same source.
Bliss Lawyers has “a bench” of more than 15,000 lawyers across the US who are paid over $200 an hour for “work on an engagement basis for in-house legal department and law firm clients.”
The first reactions have been mostly negative, because of specific concerns such as wage indexation in Belgium or because the EU institutions want to preserve their legal prerogatives.
The absurd result, however, is that citizens from EU candidate countries are subject to asylum procedures, because no possibility for legal immigration to the EU exists for them.
Last week, France began to carry out plans to expel all non-French Roma, implicating them as a group in criminal activity, without any legal process to determine whether individuals have committed any crime or pose a threat to public order.
Indeed, it is a firmly established legal principle that crime should be addressed by a determination of individual guilt before a court of law.
Not only does this undermine European values and legal principles, but it fails to address the root causes of the problem.
Likewise, in Southeast Asia, hill tribes rarely have legal rights to their indigenous holdings, which are often located in state forests.
New projects are now being prepared in Mozambique and Tanzania to provide customary settlements with communal titles that will ensure legal recognition of their common holdings, thereby strengthening the protection and management of these assets.
Indeed, Ukraine could be left facing a string of complex and costly legal cases.
Legal chaos would result.
The ECB was chosen as the Single Supervisory Mechanism, despite the wafer-thin legal basis (an ambiguous clause in the Lisbon Treaty) for its new responsibilities.
Despite enduring legal doubts about the ECB’s powers, the need for a central supervisor is widely agreed.
Adopting a comprehensive legal framework would be a useful first step.
The reason: a congressman managed to introduce a legal provision that prohibits NASA from stopping the spending until a new budget has been approved.
In the climate of extreme fear that followed the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration’s tortured legal interpretations of international and domestic law tarnished American democracy and diminished its soft power.
Economic status also comes into play, with poor criminals being executed much more often than wealthy ones, not least because they cannot afford high-quality legal representation.
Just a couple of weeks before Memon’s execution, India’s Law Commission, a government body composed of retired judges and legal experts that works for legal reform, organized consultations to assess the effectiveness of the provisions governing the death penalty in India and the purpose of the penalty itself.
This is why services exports tend to grow with regional economic and legal integration.
Another possibility would be to establish a multilateral mechanism for financing the direct legal empowerment of citizens worldwide.
Like health care and the environment, legal empowerment is a public good.
After all, corruption exists everywhere, so legal empowerment is always needed.
Unlike more established democracies, in which politics only effects the economy at the margins, Poland cannot coast along; it needs leadership from its politicians if the economic gains of the last few years are not to be wasted through lack of progress on privatization, fiscal and banking reform, and modernization of the legal system.
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