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But most attention has focused on the EU’s three top positions: the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Council, and the High Representative for external affairs.
HELSINKI – It seems to be a law in the technology industry that leading companies eventually lose their positions – often quickly and brutally.
In an independent Catalonia, they would be rewarded with high-level positions.
But, with the exception of China, fiscal positions around the world are currently weak.
For example, Indian and Chinese members held different positions about the role of China’s “Belt and Road” infrastructure projects.
But they should not be accorded the degree of respect or deference that their seniority and government positions would normally merit.
The US not only lost control of the OAS, an organization that generally serves US interests, but also failed to get last month’s Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata Argentina to endorse unanimously a declaration supporting America’s trade and political positions for the region.
It was urgent to be imaginative – and the right people were in the right positions.
If the young European elites being trained there to occupy positions within the European Union’s institutions no longer believe in the EU’s future, something is really wrong.
In the past, small member states used to gravitate towards federalist positions, because they calculated that they needed strong central institutions to contain the power of the large member states (especially France).
So here is the second paradox: both large and small EU countries imagine that they can optimize their relative leverage by adopting inter-governmentalist positions.
His political rivals are gaining new positions of power, and the population is increasingly unhappy with the economy’s continuing decline.
But, despite the obvious benefits that women bring, they remain under-represented in senior leadership positions at companies around the world.
But if Japan’s deepening nationalist mood leads to symbolic and populist positions that win votes at home but antagonize its neighbors, both Japan and the world will be worse off.
Proponents of such cross-fertilization point to outsiders or their descendants who have attained high positions in their adopted countries: a Latino member of the US Supreme Court, German constitutional lawyers of Turkish origin, French prefects whose parents and grandparents arrived from North Africa, British lords and baronesses with roots in Africa and the Caribbean, and Italian writers of Indian descent.
Underlying fiscal positions still vary from one country to another, despite all the efforts to achieve fiscal convergence through top-down rules.
It was President Clinton, not Bush or Reagan, who declared that "the era of big government was over" as his administration radically reversed traditional Democratic positions on welfare, balanced budgets, public debt reduction, and the encouragement of business.
And yet there is a risk that the selection process becomes no more than an exercise in political horse-trading, with Council members awarding leadership positions, including seats on the Commission, purely on the basis of national political considerations.
But May’s government is now being reminded daily of the far-reaching consequences of staking out positions that lack any meaningful regard for the future.
Hedge funds and other “non-commercial” speculators have increased their long positions to an all-time high of 555,000 of the main oil contracts traded on the New York futures market, compared to the previous record of 548,000 contracts, set just before the oil price peaked at $120 in June 2014.
The dispersion of current-account positions tells us much about the state of global imbalances, which are often a precursor of crises.
As the post-war generation ages – with most of its members now at least 60 years old and its leaders either in senior leadership positions or acting as senior statesmen – the remaining support for integration is waning.
By most accounts, Lehman’s derivatives portfolio was a winner when it went bankrupt, but bankruptcy exemptions for derivatives allowed Lehman’s counterparties to close out their positions rapidly, in ways that were costly for Lehman, chaotic for financial markets, and damaging to the real economy.
They are also exempt from rules that impede better-informed creditors from seizing assets and running off just before a bankruptcy, even if their positions are needed, say, to sell a portfolio intact to another business, and even if the fleeing creditor would eventually be paid in full, with interest.
It is essential that all major opposition groups achieve agreement about their aims and negotiating positions.
The most obvious example of this is finance and banking, where former employees of a single firm, Goldman Sachs, hold some of the most senior regulatory and monetary positions – and not just in the United States.
Indeed, many Western-educated students now occupy the highest academic and political positions in Indonesia.
American states and municipalities do face serious medium- and long-term fiscal challenges from underfunded pension and health-care systems, but citizens living in different states have a common national budget, whereas citizens of different eurozone countries face radically different central-government fiscal positions.
Nevertheless, much tighter constraints, with serious and enforceable penalties, must be placed on permissible budget positions and their transparency if the euro is to survive.
Four out of ten employers said that they cannot find workers to fill entry-level positions in their firms, with more than one-third of respondents saying that their businesses are suffering from a lack of appropriate skills in the labor market.
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