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What is surprising in the face of this brain drain is the power of the lobby of university professors in Europe to block reform.
Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.
In both Korea and Japan, large firms’ entry into the service sector is impeded by restrictive regulation, for which small producers are an influential lobby.
Think tanks, lobby groups, and national regulators have wasted no time in trying to influence Hill's efforts, and to head off any initiatives that might damage their interests.
The American made a firm, explicit and apparently sincere commitment to lobby as strongly as possibly for what he calls “comprehensive immigration reform” and what in Mexico is commonly known as “the whole enchilada.”
So the lobby of Mumbai’s Taj hotel, just across the road from the gateway built to welcome Britain’s King George V and Queen Mary on their visit to India in 1911, is once again thronged with visitors, many of whom have arrived to see if India is living up to its image as the next great power.
In the past, coalitions of workers and capitalists from the same industry would lobby for protection.
The US textile lobby insisted that knit fabrics exported north come from Central America.
That will give firms all the more reason to lobby and otherwise pressure licensing authorities, further complicating the process, and raising the possibility of corruption.
A similar feat has been accomplished in Germany, with some powerful lobby groups persuading middle-class voters that they will benefit from a tax cut.
Like Trump, German politicians and lobby groups claim that domestic firms need a tax cut in order to stay competitive internationally.
Japan’s political challenge will be to sell the TPP to its voters, especially the farm lobby.
Realizing Ahtisaari’s proposal will depend on EU solidarity and persistence, coupled with strong American support, to manage the vicissitudes of UN debate, lobby skeptical non-permanent Security Council members, such as Indonesia and South Africa, and persuade Russia to abstain rather than exercise its veto.
Indeed, Israel’s critics were already arguing that this was another case of the tail wagging the dog – that Israel and its American lobby were trying to push the US into serving Israel’s interests rather than its own.
But will they be able to stand up to the powerful lobby of big banks and their shadowy allies?
By contrast, interest groups with big stakes in the rules follow corporate governance issues closely, and they lobby politicians to get favorable regulations.
Not only has Hu’s administration failed to protect the rights of the poor and the oppressed, but police and government-hired thugs now frequently harass lawyers and other activists who lobby on behalf of the country’s dispossessed.
If France and China were prevented from completing their series, they would either refuse to sign a test-ban treaty altogether or insist on such major exceptions that the treaty would be devalued, to the delight of the test lobby in the United States and elsewhere and the frustrations of all those who want to stop the bomb from spreading.
They must now nail down France on a watertight testban and lobby for a similar commitment from China; and France' s partners in the European Union must now challenge the government in Paris to spell out what it means by "Europeanizing" the French nuclear strategic forces, if it is serious at all.
Politics on the donor side is no less complicated, with growing aid budgets often viewed by taxpayers as excessive at a time when the anti-aid lobby is becoming more vocal.
Less fragmented industries also lobby better.
Developed countries have been raising their retirement ages gradually, but trade unions and pensioner groups lobby hard against any increase.
And Germany’s powerful industrial lobby frets that American tech companies could eat their manufacturing lunch.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called on his ministers and his supporters in the US to lobby Congress to oppose the agreement.
A strategic lack of transparency is the bread and butter of shrewd politicians who want to please a lobby by hiding the costs of the public's largesse from the majority of citizens.
And could there be a less attractive way of presenting the European story than with the acronym of the major pro-European lobby group Britain Stronger in Europe?
At the moment, he owes nothing to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the country’s powerful pro-Israel lobby.
The stark truth is that without strong political will and clear arguments, any future French president is unlikely to curb the strength of lobby groups and old networks that have dominated France’s relationship with Africa.
Global energy companies in Hungary are interested in promoting strong growth in the number of customers using their services; they act, alongside banking and insurance industries, as a vital lobby on the government for greater foreign investment and openness.
Europeans who want to develop relations with Russia and the majority of businessmen--European and Russian--with interests in greater trade must also be induced to lobby in favor of greater openness.
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