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In opting to become President Medvedev’s prime minister, Putin sees himself as coming closer to the machine of power, because he will obtain minute-by-minute control of the government.
And, as deputy prime minister since 2005, he oversaw the Russian National Priority Projects (a set of policies to develop social welfare), which has given him a clearer insight into Russia’s deep flaws than any of the siloviks , with their focus on getting and maintaining personal power, could ever have.
As Russia’s deputy prime minister since 2005, he has not gone beyond consoling rhetoric.
So it was only appropriate that he should become deputy prime minister for social affairs in 2005, because he had already succeeded in largely bringing these affairs to a halt.
In the sadly immortal words of Victor Chernomyrdin, Russia’s prime minister during the Yeltsin era, “We wanted for the better, but it turned out to be like always.”
Europe’s Fast Track to Youth EmploymentBRUSSELS – Italy’s new prime minister, Matteo Renzi, wants to attack high youth unemployment by cutting taxes on labor.
Insurgents hold no land or cities, unlike before, and, while many Sunnis chafe at life under a prime minister who leads a Shia-based political party, they have for the most part accepted the new reality and have focused on getting as much as they can from it.
Many a government minister, Bank officer and NGO representative has experienced his blunt criticism, as well as his effusive praise.
As Ethiopia’s health minister from 2005 to 2012, he championed the interests of all of the country’s citizens, and strengthened primary-care services.
When Ghebreyesus was Ethiopia’s foreign minister from 2012 to 2016, he gained extensive diplomatic experience, not least by leading negotiations for the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the international community’s plan to finance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
As Turkey faces many regional challenges, his experience as foreign minister ought to serve him well.
But an engaged and active president may cause tension with the prime minister who, in the Turkish system, is the real chief executive.
The British minister responsible for the test justified the idea by claiming that “the simple act of taking one’s turn is one of the things that holds our country together.
In response to those who see her as a “mini-Merkel,” she expounded on her 18 years as minister and minister-president of the state of Saarland.
Kevin Rudd, the former Australian prime minister, tried to implement a clean-energy policy in his coal-producing country.
Putin has usurped authority not just from his more knowledgeable colleagues, but also from the prime minister, who has traditionally served as Russia’s chief economic policymaker.
Ouattara went a step further, naming a prime minister and a 13-seat cabinet.
The AU also sent former South African president Thabo Mbeki and Burkina Faso’s former minister for national security, Djibril Bassolé, who helped broker the Ouagadougou Agreement between then President Gbagbo and rebel leader Guillaume Soro a decade ago.
The team consists of eminent academics, including economist and Chilean finance minister Andrés Velasco, United Nations Under-Secretary General José Antonio Ocampo, Harvard University professor and former Venezuelan Central Bank board member Ricardo Hausmann, and Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development.
Shinzo Abe’s Grand ArrivalJapan’s new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has wasted little time in making his mark, particularly in foreign policy.
As Abe made clear when he delivered the prime minister’s general policy speech late last month, his focus on foreign policy is set to intensify.
Yasuhisa Shiozaki, who occupies the key position of cabinet secretary, is a long-time ally, while the foreign minister, Taro Aso, though a rival within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), shares Abe’s policy priorities.
Furthermore, Abe will seek to reorganize the prime minister’s office to reinforce its ability to function as a political headquarters that can make quick decisions on national strategy concerning diplomatic and security issues.
Thus, the prime minister’s office will more closely resemble the US White House, which he hopes will enable both countries to communicate their intentions continuously and reliably.
Moreover, although the current assistants’ authority is limited, Abe plans to submit legislation aimed at strengthening the prime minister’s office, including an amendment of the cabinet law.
This would enable the prime minister’s assistants to “command and instruct” the relevant ministries and agencies.
Unsurprisingly, the Bangladeshi prime minister’s office is striving to lead in global innovation, sustaining an agriculture innovation lab that shares best practices and ideas.
In Budapest, he praised Sandor Petofi, whose nineteenth-century ode to freedom is a Hungarian national treasure, while Viktor Orban, Hungary’s rightist prime minister, lauded China for supposedly including Petofi in high school curricula.
Recently, Nepal’s labor minister publicly spoke out about the government of Qatar not allowing his country’s migrant workers to return home to mourn relatives who died in the April 2015 earthquake.
This is one of the interesting revelations in Varoufakis’s fascinating account of his tenure as finance minister.
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