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As one Latin American foreign minister told me recently, “Apparently everybody is fighting with everybody over everything.”
Cameron could be remembered as the prime minister who helped break up the UK (and possibly Europe).
The appointment of the Italian foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has been widely questioned, owing to her limited executive experience in foreign policy.
Papandreou enjoys a clear parliamentary majority, and he is highly respected in Turkey, owing to the pivotal role he played as Greece’s foreign minister in initiating the rapprochement with Turkey in l999.
While some of the charges appear to be based on flimsy evidence, they have made the General Staff more hesitant to challenge the prime minister.
No British prime minister could consent to a treaty change to create a fiscal union without having to call a referendum at home, the outcome of which would force the UK to withdraw from the EU.
More recently, Chirac’s foreign minister, Michel Barnier, chastised the Romanian President Traian Barescu for lacking a “European reflex,” because Barescu plans to align Romania with Anglo-Saxon liberal economic policies, and wants a special relationship with the US and UK to improve security in the Black Sea region.
A key component of China’s strategy in the South China Sea is the dredging of low-tide elevations to make small islands, including in areas that, as China’s deputy foreign minister for Asian affairs, Liu Zhenmin, recently acknowledged, “are far from the Chinese mainland.”
And he has acknowledged that he is no “fan” of Israel’s right-wing prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu; indeed, Sanders was among the legislators who boycotted Netanyahu’s controversial address to Congress last March.
Yet it clearly has: German influence within the European Central Bank has declined significantly; the German finance minister will not become head of the Eurogroup; and now we have the Brussels disaster!
As a government minister in 1993, however, I was already hearing CIA officials express concern that a “Mafia state” was being created instead.
The new finance minister, Lou Jiwei, comes to the ministry from the China Investment Corporation, China’s sovereign wealth fund, where he dealt with global capital markets on a daily basis.
Lou, a trained economist who previously served in the Ministry of Finance as a deputy minister, where he was a voice for pro-market reforms, indicated his current approach to tax and budget policy at a recent meeting in Beijing.
As a reward, he was later made a minister in the Communist government.
And to prove the government’s commitment to the issue, the next prime minister should expand the government team by appointing a diaspora minister.
Hamas will control the cabinet and prime minister’s office, but Mahmoud Abbas retains all authority and power exercised by Yasir Arafat.
Although President Bill Clinton made strong efforts to promote peace, a massive increase of settlers occurred during his administration, to 225,000, mostly while Ehud Barak was prime minister.
Acting prime minister Ehud Olmert and others pointed out years ago that Israel’s permanent occupation will be increasingly difficult as the relative number of Jewish citizens decreases demographically both within Israel and in Palestine.
Marine Le Pen, whose National Front is associated with the far right, disagrees: to her, Macron, who was a minister in a Socialist government, is a leftist.
He kidnapped the prime minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, and detained a host of wealthy Saudis in the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, releasing them from their forced retreat only after they had parted ways with much of their wealth.
But Kissinger should remember what the young queen’s private tutor taught her about British politics: the prime minister must be “efficient,” and the Crown must be “dignified.”
For example, in 2011, Edmond Alphandéry, a former economy minister, declared that a eurozone exit by a member country was as likely as a dollar exit by Texas or California.
On the opening night, a senior German government minister, himself deeply involved in Middle Eastern affairs, addressed both subjects, displaying great sensitivity both to Israeli and Palestinian concerns.
In the hushed room, the senior German minister continued: he himself was born in Eastern Europe, and his family was expelled in the post-1945 anti-German atmosphere.
As the German senior minister reminded the audience, there are numerous parallels in recent history to the Palestinian refugee problem.
The German minister supplied the answer.
The senior German minister referred to it explicitly, both with regard to the Palestinians and the post-1945 German refugees.
For example, less than two years after Iran’s democratically elected parliament and prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1951, the US and Britain used their secret services to topple Mossadegh and install the incompetent, violent, and authoritarian Shah Reza Pahlavi.
Each camp has taken its turn controlling the government, under two formidable female leaders: the Awami League’s Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the current prime minister, and her two-term predecessor, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s Begum Khaleda Zia.
The key political change was the appointment of a new finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, whose selection by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi sent a strong positive signal to the Indian business community and to financial markets.
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