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Nobody wants to repeal citizenship legislation that makes birthplace, not bloodlines, the basis of belonging, and everybody is proud that right-wing populism has never taken off in the way that it has among some of Germany’s neighbors.
While 37 states have some form of enabling legislation and regulatory framework for infrastructure PPPs, there are wide disparities among states.
What Volkswagen claims was the work of a couple of rogue engineers could turn out to be a catalyst for new thinking and approaches in the car industry, particularly given the possibility of new legislation to combat climate change.
This move away from the internal market can be explained partly by member governments’ aversion to more EU-level legislation.
With little authority to initiate legislation, the Parliament, too, will have no choice but to pivot toward oversight.
Yet uncritical attempts to apply biological science to legislation about the human condition, if we are not careful, may lead us back into the dark days of eugenics.
Uncertainty about whether the Obama administration can marshal enough votes in Congress to ratify the TPP has now been compounded by proposed legislation that would impose tariff duties on countries that engage in “currency manipulation.”
The Venice Commission, an advisory body of the Council of Europe composed of independent experts on constitutional law, described the new legislation, together with drastic changes to the Hungary’s judicial system, as a threat to fundamental democratic freedoms.
In Mexico, for example, liberalization of elections expanded the opposition's representation in parliament, ending domination of the executive over legislation and policy.
But, with Turkey having so far failed to meet the agreed conditions, including overhauling its anti-terrorism legislation, that may not happen – an outcome made even more likely by the coup attempt.
But this bank-client confidentiality has never been 100% absolute, and Swiss legislation makes absolutely clear what it protects and what it does not protect.
The changes in how teachers are evaluated and their labor rights (wrongly described as an education reform), together with changes to tax and telecommunications legislation, belong to the first category; energy and political reforms belong to the second.
Reelection is permitted only for candidates nominated by the same party for which they originally ran, and the enabling legislation for independent candidates, ballot initiatives, and referenda remains unclear.
Worse, a raft of proposed security legislation would almost certainly restrict freedom of assembly.
And the proposed security legislation includes use of the bogeyman of “terrorism,” which is pretty much nonexistent in Brazil (but always useful to police states), to stifle dissent.
The role of FIFA, in particular, in pressuring Brazil’s government to enact anti-democratic legislation is a dangerous precedent.
The report called for legislation to protect against ethnic profiling.
Moreover, despite the recent banking reform legislation, the US has not yet resolved the structural deficiencies of its capital markets.
The US took a step in the right direction with Title II of the Dodd-Frank reform legislation in 2010, which strengthened the resolution powers of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Or consider minimum-wage legislation, which reduces employers’ willingness to hire low-skilled workers.
Hence, they accord no rights to the prisoners at Guantanamo in the absence of implementing legislation.
Today, it is preparing retaliatory legislation against China in response to pressure from many in the US who argue that an artificially weak renminbi is contributing to global imbalances, in particular to America’s massive bilateral trade deficit.
Or, as the British government insists, will it merely be a declaratory document that only describes rights already existing under national legislation in the member states.
But the legislation has had little impact on the workplace atmosphere for women.
Indeed, under the European Treaties, the Union has no competence to enact legislation and policy in these domains, nor powers to enforce them.
All too often, the Commission has favored enacting new legislation and creating new spending programs over the effective administration of what already exists.
But, as a matter of national pride, the Chinese refuse to articulate an international commitment under duress, and Obama doesn’t have much standing in pressing China to compromise, since the US Congress hasn’t yet acted on cap-and-trade legislation.
The most recent Congressional legislation makes the path to citizenship almost as difficult as the trip across the border, and all three candidates supported that bill.
With hindsight, it clearly would have been better if we had foreseen the need for legislation like the 2010 Dodd-Frank reforms and had a way to enact it with a Republican-controlled Congress.
With the benefit of hindsight, I wish we had not supported this legislation.
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