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Government legislation aimed at reforming Poland’s Constitutional Court has been condemned by the Court itself and the European democracy watchdog, the Venice Commission.
The government has effectively precluded the Court from ruling on the constitutionality of legislation.
As US President Barack Obama’s domestic opponents resist his signature health-care legislation, owing to the wealth transfers that it implies, Japanese bureaucrats are trying to recover the authority to administer tax revenue to support social-welfare programs.
Last year, when Japan’s Diet passed the legislation to raise the consumption tax, it included a provision calling for the plan to be reevaluated if economic conditions required it.
(The US Congress, to its shame, has yet to pass the necessary legislation.)
If they could, there would be no reason for the EU to support renewable energy production through legislation.
Moreover, international provisions in the pending tax legislation will give US multinationals an even greater incentive to invest, hire, and produce abroad, while using transfer pricing and other schemes to salt away profits in low-tax jurisdictions.
The tax legislation that Republicans have rushed through Congress could prove especially dangerous, given that millions of middle-class and low-income households will not only get little out of it, but will actually pay more when income-tax cuts are phased out over time.
Moreover, the final legislation will likely lower the federal deduction for mortgage interest and eliminate deductibility for state and local taxes.
Moreover, absolute protection for all deposits up to an ex ante threshold – say, €100,000 ($133,000) – should be firmly anchored within EU legislation.
The Court must rule on German plaintiffs’ claim that legislation to establish the ESM would violate Germany’s Grundgesetz (Basic Law).
Moreover, the AKP has broad support among Turkish voters and an admirable record of economic growth, human rights legislation, and improvement in the treatment of Turkey’s Kurdish minority.
And women, once told that gender parity in the boardroom might be achieved within a generation, will benefit from quota legislation adopted in the past year in Italy, Germany, and France.
Governments are passing stricter legislation, like the UK Bribery Act 2010, and broad oversight mechanisms such as the United Nations Convention against Corruption encourage further legislation and enforcement.
Between 1991 and 2000, twelve Latin American countries adopted legislation requiring minimum percentages of women on the party lists used for the election of national legislators.
But, despite this legislation, the percentage of women legislators in many of these countries remains very low.
To address the dismal under-representation of women in Latin America’s legislatures, a series of reforms must be adopted, reforms that depend in part on a country’s existing electoral legislation.
Research demonstrates that gender quota legislation is more effective in ensuring the election of women when a closed party list voting system is used.
When combined with adequate enforcement of the quota legislation, closed lists guarantee a minimum level of women’s representation across all parties and districts.
It is not possible to predict with any accuracy the impact of an increase in the quota percentages in the open-list systems that currently have effective quota legislation.
The impact would be greatest (resulting in an approximately 20% jump in the percentage of women elected) in systems that currently do not have effective quota legislation.
Such legislation must also have rigid compliance standards that are reviewed and enforced by the state’s electoral authorities and courts.
One way to enforce the rules may be to say that parties that do not comply with the legislation in a district should not be able to run candidates there.
Soon after the crisis erupted, the G-20 countries embraced massive stimulus packages, unconventional monetary policies in the advanced economies, and major institutional efforts, such as the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation in the United States and the Basel III initiative to strengthen banking standards.
Likewise, the impact of regulatory changes resulting from major legislation and policy directives in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom on banking, insurance, financial-transaction taxes, anti-money laundering, and cyber-space is likely to be substantial.
They condemned developments in Chile, held hearings about the importance of promoting human rights, and adopted legislation – over President Gerald Ford’s veto – requiring that human-rights standards guide US foreign policy.
A slightly revised version of that legislation remains in force.
The 2012 US legislation that tasked the SEC with rulemaking for crowdfunding platforms specified that no startup can use them to raise more than $1 million a year.
In fact, including this provision was a serious mistake, and needs to be corrected with new legislation.
But the rhetoric from the White House and the Treasury Department is “we have ended TBTF” with financial reform legislation currently before Congress and likely to be signed by Obama within a month.
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