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International Mediation is Not the Answer in CataloniaMADRID – On the evening of October 10, Catalonia’s separatist president, Carles Puigdemont, stood before the regional parliament to deliver what was widely expected to be a unilateral declaration of independence.
Already, the National Assembly voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye, the daughter of former president Park Chung-hee, on December 9.
Boris Yeltsin repeated the invitation in 1991, and Vladimir Putin did the same on his visit to Rome soon after his inauguration as Russia’s president.
A politically astute president who understood deeply the economics and politics of corporate tax reform could conceivably muscle Congress toward a reform package that made sense.
The rest of the world should redouble its commitment to the 2015 Paris climate agreement: global climate policy does not have to depend on what one US president currently says he thinks.
The first is that the French have accounts to settle with their president and the government.
Jacques Chirac was re-elected president with 82% of the vote because of the menace from the extreme right.
If European countries do not lurch to the right, and if Schulz emerges as Germany’s leader – and the EU’s de facto president – the EU will have less tolerance for British demands.
Trump’s Crazed TransitionWASHINGTON, DC – With Donald Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States fast approaching, the strangest – even craziest – post-election transition in US history is about to come to an end.
But Trump has only paid lip service to the hallowed principle that the US has just one president at a time.
Overcoming the legacy of centuries of slavery and racism to elect a black president in 2008 and again in 2012 seemed to embody the country’s capacity to reinvent and renew itself.
A country that confidently counsels others on democratic practice has elected a president who suggested that, if he lost, he might not recognize the result.
For Putin, the timing of the political eruption in Ukraine – with protesters eventually forcing the Kremlin-supported president, Viktor Yanukovych, to flee the country – could not have been more ominous.
In his speech, Trump promised to be a president for all Americans, praised Clinton for her past public service, and vowed to pursue massive fiscal-stimulus policies centered on infrastructure spending and tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.
Brazil's debt to GDP ratio is moderate--better than in the US at the time Bill Clinton became president, far better than that of Japan and several European countries.
Perhaps the answer lies in the US or Latin American model, with a directly elected chief executive – a president, at the national level, and a governor, at the state level – serving a fixed term as both head of state and head of government.
The president could therefore claim to speak for a majority of Indians, rather than a majority of members of parliament.
Russia’s president is dragging his country – the country of my birth – backwards, and falsely argues that violating international law is somehow good for Russians.
In 2013, the US cheered the protests in Ukraine that ultimately ousted the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych.
Moreover, the prospect that their new president is in Putin’s pocket should certainly be worrying to Americans.
Whatever his motivation, Trump has now inherited the perennial North Korea problem – a recurring global crisis that has been on every US president’s list of foreign-policy concerns since the 1980s.
The North Korean government is not so much interested in testing the new US president as it is in testing nuclear devices and missiles.
Meanwhile, South Korea has been mired in a corruption scandal that culminated in the impeachment of its president, Park Geun-hye.
But in Turkey’s constrained political environment, and with a popular if polarizing president still at the helm, opposition leaders will face a difficult struggle to maintain the momentum they have established.
So, sitting face to face across the Zambian president’s dining table, it was just the two of us, for an hour or more, chatting away comfortably about everything from United Nations sanctions to the end of the Cold War to our children’s careers.
And, as their new president walked out onto the ground to greet the players, every single one of them seemed to bellow in enchanted union “Man-del-a!
Moreover, TV shows that feature women portraying top political leaders are filling America’s airwaves, including “Madame Secretary,” starring the improbably comely Téa Leoni as US Secretary of State, and “Veep,” with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a charming, comical vice president.
Most intriguingly of all, Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, is now in a neck-and-neck race with another woman, Marina Silva.
He will be returning as Russia’s president next year.
When Putin installed his protégé, Medvedev, as president in 2008, a joke made the rounds: It is 2025, and Putin and Medvedev, now elderly, are sitting in a restaurant.
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