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Down with Euro-PaternalismItaly's presidency of the European Union bears an enormous responsibility, namely reinvigorating enlargement as the key aspect of the new EU.
NEW YORK – Jair Bolsonaro, the frontrunner for the Brazilian presidency, is a far-right, gun-loving, media-baiting hyper-nationalist.
Consensus could soon fall apart, particularly if communists win the presidency or if severe political infighting resumes.
Looking Back on BarackBASEL – Any assessment of Barack Obama’s eight-year US presidency should start at the beginning: his first inauguration, on January 20, 2009.
President-elect Donald Trump, who takes over the presidency this month, faces far easier conditions than Obama.
Bush made serious economic- and foreign-policy mistakes during his presidency, beginning in its early years, with predictable consequences for the economy, the federal budget, and national security.
Conversely, Obama’s popularity sagged during much of his eight-year presidency.
How it is handled will help to define his presidency.
With Donald Trump’s presidency and a Republican-controlled Congress, the SEC rule was immediately vacated under the Congressional Review Act, an obscure law that had been used only once before.
By the time Jefferson assumed the presidency, that quasi-war had ended, but the challenge posed by the Barbary Pirates remained.
If it is someone of worldwide renown, the presidency will immediately be established as a post of global importance.
But if its first occupant is not a household name, the presidency will be doomed as just another of the European Union’s confusing plethora of worthy senior positions that are neither valued nor understood outside Brussels.
If the presidency goes to a politician who lacks fame and charisma, its place will forever be low down in the international pecking order.
His predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, knew how to seize power but not how to consolidate it, which partly explains why power seeped away throughout his presidency.
With Obama’s presidency winding down, it is unlikely that he will rethink his incongruous Syria policy.
In the wake of economic disaster, the party held responsible would presumably be exiled from power for a generation (the Great Depression kept the Republicans from the US presidency for 20 years).
Numerous Republican members of Congress are deeply worried about Trump’s capacity to handle the presidency – an incredibly demanding job.
He then assumed the European Union presidency just days after the resounding Irish “No” to the Lisbon Treaty reduced his role to an exercise in damage control at best.
Still, this new trial of course is also a test case for Medvedev’s presidency.
Medvedev’s presidency will inevitably be measured by this case.
The coming months of campaigning for the US presidency will be spent in petty brawling over what should be cut.
It is my hope that the global economic crisis and Barack Obama’s presidency will put the farcical idea of a new Cold War into proper perspective.
A Czech MomentPRAGUE – As I listened to what some Europeans were saying as my country prepared to take over the presidency of the European Union, I heard dim echoes of Neville Chamberlain’s infamous description of Czechoslovakia as “a faraway country of which we know little.”
The second key challenge that we will face during our European presidency is that of Russia.
It is the Czech Republic’s task, and that of the Swedish EU presidency that will follow our own, to maintain this unity as the PCA negotiations move forward.
During Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s presidency in the 1970’s, unemployment rose every year, reaching 6.3% by 1980.
More recently, the first wave of the Iranian revolution, under the presidency of Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, was by no means exclusively Islamist; the second wave, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was.
President George W. Bush repudiated the Kyoto Protocol in 2001 and did essentially nothing on climate change during his presidency.
For desperate Palestinians, however, Trump’s impending presidency seems to offer a slight reason for hope.
In fact, Israelis seem at least as hopeful that Trump’s presidency will tip the scales further in their favor.
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