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Mario Monti, Italy’s prime minister at the time, has long pressed for capital investment to be treated differently than current expenditure, so that countries like Italy can still pursue desperately needed infrastructure spending.
Another former Italian prime minister, Romano Prodi, once dubbed the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact “stupid.”
As Kosti Manibe Ngai, South Sudan’s finance minister, has put it, “Nothing about us without us.”
By returning the 92-year-old Mahathir Mohamad to the job of prime minister, voters ended 61 years of uninterrupted rule by the United Malays National Organization (UMNO).
That was the year Mahathir came to power (he first served as prime minister from July 1981 until October 2003).
In fact, the PD may not be able to avoid a split even if the vote goes the prime minister’s way.
Germany’s government found that out when it was forced to retract its development minister’s statement that Qatar played a central role in arming and financing the Islamic State.
Australia’s Pantomime DemocracyCANBERRA – Australia has a new prime minister – its fifth in just eight years.
No Australian prime minister has served a full electoral term since 2007, and we have had four incumbents in the last 27 months alone.
Finance minister Cardosa and his team, with the 1994 "Plano Real" (the introduction of a new, hard currency) did a great job.
As Kevin Rudd, the former Australian prime minister, noted in a remarkable speech a few weeks ago, the US security establishment has become convinced that strategic engagement with China has not paid off and should give way to strategic competition – a stance that would encompass all dimensions of the bilateral relationship.
Israel’s right-wing education minister, Naftali Bennett, said that Trump’s victory is an opportunity for Israel “to retract the notion of a Palestinian state in the center of the country.”
Commentators deemed him too ignorant and inexperienced to last as prime minister, assuming that he would not survive the cut and thrust of politics or the pressures of government.
In the last 22 years, he has won three general elections and served as prime minister for nine years.
When he was in office, many a political talk show was interrupted by a phone call from the prime minister demanding to have his say.
So what we are seeing is an Israeli prime minister team up with the ideological descendants of European fascists to attack a Holocaust survivor whose philanthropy fulfills the principle, called tikkun olam, that Jews must act in ways that improve or repair the world.
That is Maliki’s task; it will be the task of the next prime minister, too.
But, in the current climate, it is difficult to imagine that naming an additional Sunni minister would stop the wave of suicide bombers dispatched by Al Qaeda – a group not known to negotiate power-sharing deals.
Consider Gordon Brown, Britain’s new prime minister, according to whom globalization strips the European project of any meaning, a form of political autism that in fact will prevent the EU from adapting to change and from being able to find solutions to globalization’s challenges.
A housing minister who is told to build a certain number of houses will likely fail to build an equivalent number of well-connected habitat nodes.
But Brazil insisted on the path of dialogue and began talking with other stakeholders in the Iranian question, such as Turkey, whose foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, recently staked out a similar position.
But Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, rejected the US offer.
For the cries of the anti-Semites cannot hide the fact that the man the Communists now support as prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov, is himself of Jewish origins.
A couple of weeks later, I was at a dinner in Europe, where the speaker was a former finance minister of a eurozone country.
The former minister had left politics and had strong words about the mistakes he thought the European policy elite had made.
This is the opposite of the approach taken by the Danish political drama “Borgen,” which presents an idealized prime minister, Birgitte Nyborg.
The fact that he has picked the moderate Francois Fillon as prime minister indicates that he is interested in obtaining real results, and that he thus plans to take the evolutionary route rather than tilting at the windmills of revolutionary change.
He became Sweden's foreign minister for a year and was later a director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.
As Denmark’s foreign minister at the time, I was able to secure some opt-outs from EU directives, and then a second referendum was held.
Most importantly, together with the Swiss finance minister, Hildebrand introduced the “Swiss approach” to bank regulation.
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