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In June, speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Medvedev mesmerized his audience by simultaneously sounding avant-garde and hackneyed: he attacked corruption, vowed that Russia is not “building state capitalism,” and promised legal and federal reforms.
The Constitution’s institutional checks and balances, together with an impartial legal system, are likely to constrain even a reality-TV showman.
So the world needs, in its regions, to facilitate integration on the basis of a general economic democratization: currency compatibility, free trade, shared legal rules and most of all a common will to fix the rules of the game according to a region’s entire interests.
Almost all of these deaths and injuries could be prevented, the WHO says, by meeting the need for sex education and information about family planning and contraception, and by providing safe, legal induced abortion, as well as follow-up care to prevent or treat medical complications.
Restricting access to legal abortion leads many poor women to seek abortion from unsafe providers.
Not bound by procedural rules or legal strictures, the G20 could respond quickly when needed.
The ICC prosecutor echoed his sentiments in a June 5 legal brief, noting that “the Government of Libya may be unable to move the case forward.”
The international legal gold standard is a treaty, a binding document that can be enforced by courts and arbitration tribunals.
Instead of suing one another for failure to comply with a legal obligation, countries will try to outdo one another in their efforts to help address a shared problem.
The domestic political and legal culture was still not ready to face squarely the ghosts of the authoritarian past.
By that time, we had already become aware that interests in organ commerce were constantly intensifying, and that those in need of organs or money were increasingly likely to turn to the black market or seek a legal loophole that would allow them to conceal the commercial transaction behind some legitimate gesture.
Until recently, we have not done much about the black market (the 2008 Declaration of Istanbul marks the beginning of a determined struggle against this market), but we banned altruistic directed donations by living non-relatives out of fear that they would become that legal loophole.
Even in those states where creditors have the legal authority to take other assets or wage income, the personal bankruptcy laws are so restrictive that creditors don’t bother to try.
Furthermore, Slovakia, unlike most of its regional peers, has fulfilled its legal obligation to join the eurozone – an obligation that an independent Scotland would have to take on when, as expected, it sought EU membership.
But governments must also introduce the legal and regulatory frameworks needed for privatization and public-private partnerships (PPPs).
It would also establish a political, economic, and legal reform plan for the country, supported by roughly 60 state agencies in EU member countries.
Russia’s brief trade war in August frightened Yanukovych into pledging to fulfill all 11 of the EU’s legal and political conditions.
Acquiescing in Tymoshenko’s political imprisonment would negate the very foundations of the legal and democratic standards that the EU purports to represent.
Any subsequent legal reform in Ukraine would appear hollow.
The issue is not just the ECB’s legal authority under the Maastricht Treaty, but, more importantly, the appropriateness of alternative measures.
They are not aware of their legal rights.
In June 2012, Gabon delayed the coupon payment on its $1 billion bond, pending the outcome of a legal dispute, and was on the verge of a default.
The fact that Europeans can marry only one spouse is both a legal and a cultural norm.
Instead, the US should establish humane, secure, and legal mechanisms of temporary or permanent entry for people the American economy needs and wants, and it should work with, not against, governments in Latin America.
The current Polish government, led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party, which came to power just under a year ago, has displayed a similar authoritarian streak, flouting legal conventions to further its own ends.
The EU has started legal proceedings against Poland, and it is calling on the Polish government to work with opposition parties to reform the court.
The model for this approach is Denmark’s attainment of legal opt-outs in defined areas.
Political declarations on the issues outlined would be registered as international treaties at the United Nations to provide binding legal force.
He will use his legal training to fight on technicalities.
Both states and markets work well only when adequately enforced legal rules provide the necessary certainty.
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