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Straying outside of those parameters would lead to warnings and sanctions, but otherwise there would be some flexibility for member states to pursue the EU’s collective goals at a pace adapted to their national circumstances.
GSMA – a trade group that represents hundreds of telecoms operators, and whose director general, Mats Granryd, is a member of the Business Commission – and its members are facilitating microfinance in rural areas.
Estrada literally defined plunder: as a senator in the early 1990’s, he was a member of the congress that crafted the law under which he was convicted.
Turkey served as a member of the United Nations Security Council in 2009-2010, and is now seeking another term in 2015-2016.
In such a context, the goal of the EU’s Brexit negotiators would be straightforward: make clear that being a member of the European club brings substantial benefits, and that leaving carries substantial costs.
It is also the logic behind member states’ refusal to engage in pre-negotiations or to accept a transitional arrangement.
Debt exceeding that amount would be left to the responsibility of the member states.
First, its member states are not all meeting their obligations, both to one another and according to international law.
The defects in Europe’s asylum legislation and the difference among its member states’ practices have been evident for some time.
Exercising it will require EU member states to maintain a common position, supporting the efforts of the United Nations special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, to work with all relevant players – including the EU, the United States, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia – to achieve peace in Syria.
More surprising, France dismissed a money-laundering charge brought against another billionaire, Suleyman Kerimov, though Kerimov, a member of Russia’s Federation Council, does maintains close ties to the Kremlin.
This requirement of the eurozone’s Stability and Growth Pact, specified by Article 126 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, applies to member states that fail to meet their commitments to bring their budget deficits below 3% of GDP.
This is not a far-fetched scenario, and its realization would play havoc with the budgets of many indebted eurozone member states.
Therefore, in assessing member states’ draft budgets, governments and the Commission would be foolish to assume that low interest rates on government bonds will be around for the foreseeable future.
But the EU could find a silver lining in the Polish government’s outrageous behavior, if it uses the current standoff to emancipate itself from its member states’ worst dictates.
If the EU can overrule a member state once, it can do so again.
It can’t survive long if it is unaligned and has to be either a member of the geopolitical West, or a satrapy of Russia.
The conundrum is especially vexing for Chile, a country that already has bilateral trade agreements with every potential member of the TPP.
But that potential will be realized only if more knowledge, not less, flows across member countries’ borders.
Or they can decide to move toward Europe, perhaps in the distant future joining the EU as its largest – and perhaps most influential – member.
The Disintegration of EuropeLONDON – If a clear signal was needed that the European Union is falling apart at an alarming rate, Hungary’s construction of razor-wire fences along the border with its fellow EU member Croatia is it.
Likewise, EU rules stipulating that refugees should be granted asylum in the first member country they reach have proved both unworkable and unfair; because asylum-seekers mostly arrive in southern Europe and want to head north, Greece and Italy ignore the rules and facilitate their passage.
With the government now seeking to negotiate even looser membership terms, Britain will end up more estranged from the EU even if it remains a member.
The EU should, for example, allow R&D spending (and some spending on active labor-market policies targeting young people) to be left out of member states’ deficit accounting.
This presupposes not only truly EU-wide regulation – which is, at present, excessively intergovernmental due to the design of the EU’s Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators – but also more infrastructure, including electrical lines and gas pipelines, connecting member states to one another.
At the very least, greater transparency in individual member states’ third-party purchases is needed.
For example, today purchase contracts between companies in various member states and Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom are confidential.
But that honor is now shared by the brave team fielded by Croatia, the newest EU member state.
Even so, the evidence from the OECD’s 34 member countries is that immigrants generally pay more in taxes and social security contributions than they receive in individual benefits.
But, for many of the EU member states, France remains a model.
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