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In 2000, the EU’s executive arm – responding in part to the growing popularity of anti-immigrant and neo-Nazi political parties – enacted the most far-reaching anti-discrimination legislation in the world.
To date, however, this legislation has lain dormant.
Indeed, US legislation strictly forbids the Fed from lending to non-depository institutions, except in emergencies.
Until the 1980s the nation state remained an apparently effective arena for economic legislation.
For example, Colombia was a stronghold for the tobacco corporation Philip Morris International two decades ago, and comprehensive tobacco-control legislation in that country was long unthinkable.
Countries have enacted security legislation and created special intelligence and police units to stop perpetrators and discourage or prevent attacks, and have complemented these efforts by entering into international and regional treaties and bilateral agreements.
In Egypt, too, conservative forces are on the rise, demanding policies – particularly reforms of family legislation – that would represent a step backward for women.
Draft legislation that reflects a restrictive interpretation of sharia (Islamic law), particularly concerning women’s status, is now being submitted for debate in Tunisia.
Among other things, new legislation would make polygamy the rule, rather than the exception, and would deprive women of an equal right to divorce.
The introduction of taxes on sugary drinks in Mexico and Berkeley, California, has demonstrated the industry’s willingness to fight legislation that might lower its profits.
In his statement, Osborne excluded small producers from the legislation, but he did not define what he meant by “small.”
On the other side, some campaigners want high-sugar foods, such as sweets and cakes, to be included in the proposed legislation.
But accomplishing this will require policymakers to get the legislation right and to ensure that its effects are properly assessed.
Thus, when the United States Congress enacted “Buy America” provisions for public procurement, many US firms, such as Boeing, Caterpillar, and General Electric – all fearing retaliation in their foreign markets – lobbied successfully to moderate the legislation.
Through legislation or direct voter initiatives, approximately eight million workers have already won minimum-wage increases in recent years, and an additional $5 billion has made it into workers’ pockets since 2017.
Despite the Republicans’ big win in November 2016, US President Donald Trump’s ability to pass legislation still depends on what congressional Republicans expect to see happen in the November 2018 midterm election.
And he is pursuing various forms of financial deregulation – either through legislation, or by appointing regulators who are prone to capture – that will favor big banks.
Without Democratic support, Trump will have a hard time passing the legislation that he has chosen to define his presidency.
The European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive and the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency plan to introduce strict regulations of PNV sales and use, based on drug legislation, even though the devices are neither tobacco nor medical products.
The attempt by opposition parties last year to impeach South Korea’s President Roh Moo Hyun on the flimsiest of excuses;Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian’s inability to pass legislation through a parliament controlled by the opposition Kuomintang;Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s stalemated first term and the repeated rumors of looming coup attempts against her: each bears testimony to a form of democratic paralysis in Asia.
Europe’s voters, thankfully still through the ballot box, are expressing their fears stemming from the economic crisis, the breakdown of the social contract, and perceived threats to national and cultural identity in the absence of coherent policies and pan-European legislation to address issues such as immigration and minority integration.
In committee discussions of Trump’s health-care proposal, she infamously remarked, “Let the games begin,” before supporting the legislation until it was withdrawn.
At the same time, Trump realizes that if he embraces legislation preferred by the Freedom Caucus – a bloc comprising the most extreme conservatives in the House, whose members sank the effort to repeal Obamacare – he will lose the political center.
On legislation, however, extremism will not work, owing to the need to attract some relatively centrist Republicans in order for it to pass.
In 2009, they worked to defeat climate-change legislation by relying on anti-regulation rhetoric that demonized their own creation.
When Bill Clinton became president in January 1993, he sent legislation to Congress to renew the system of spending caps and PAYGO.
The EU, meanwhile, tightened legislation last year to ban all trade in goods used for torture or capital punishment.
And, fourth, those with national legislation already in place will provide technical assistance to other countries still working toward that end.
It would also lead to broader economic-policy coordination, particularly with respect to wage-setting, because governments would be compelled to use national legislation and public-sector wage settlements to influence wage policy in such a way that imbalances among euro-zone countries are reduced.
And yet only 38% say they would like to see Abe reverse course and repeal the legislation.
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