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Politicians – like Jacques Chirac in France, Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, and ECOFIN (the finance ministers of the European Union’s member states) – continue to press for fixed, even lower, interest rates.
While Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke paid obeisance at his recent press conference to the talisman of a “strong dollar,” the Fed is probably quite happy to see the greenback trending down.
And Europe, on the front line, risks its future and a part of its identity as the people it could not protect press at its borders, asking to be let in.
First, trade surpluses with other countries are important – so important that it does not matter if the increased US exports mentioned in press releases after foreign visits are real or virtual.
Some of MBS’s actions have garnered favorable international press coverage, not least his decrees allowing women to drive and curtailing the power of the religious police, who have long enforced public dress codes.
Either way, Trump has eroded the credibility of institutions such as the press, the intelligence agencies, and the US Department of Justice, making everything relative and playing to his extremely loyal base.
Should they press their demands, forcing Greece to exit, the world will never again trust the euro’s longevity.
Speculation about America's motives, with press commentators highlighting the role of the Christian right-wing in formulating American policy, is increasing.
Moreover, though composting receives good press as a “green” practice, it generates a significant amount of greenhouse gases (and is often a source of pathogenic bacteria in crops).
President Barack Obama acknowledged the danger to democratic freedoms when speaking to the press in Germany shortly after the US election.
“Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” By 1919, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of those words had led to the doctrine that Congress could prohibit speech only if it posed “a clear and present danger” of serious harm.
Congress always pays attention to squeaky wheels, and special interests press it to legislate foreign-policy tactics, codes of conduct, and sanctions for other countries.
This is a time for Europeans to be bold, courageous, and prepared to do what our forebears failed to accomplish in the 1930s: to press transnational democratic politics into the service of progressive Europeanism.
Plenty of other liberal democracies have experienced elements of authoritarian leadership, including nepotism, limits on freedom of speech or of the press, overtly discriminatory policies, and the abuse of public office for personal gain.
Listen to what comes out of Washington and Brussels, or read the financial press, and you would think you were witnessing a straightforward morality play.
The official Saudi press explains the new stance as reflecting the government’s desire to abide by Security Council resolutions.
To attract that support, some steps towards freedom of the press have been taken, but censorship remains strict.
The great newspapers, like the great universities, still enjoy a higher status than the more popular press, and the same goes for higher learning.
And they do not hesitate to undermine an independent press or judiciary when their business interests are threatened.
The following interview is adapted from a press conference held in Udine, Italy, on that occasion.
I tried to hide behind others and dodge greeting him in front of TV cameras and the press.
In one 1998 column, he wrote about journalists jailed for operating independently and lamented an internal press "totally devoid of meaning."
But, while the first round of articles read like press releases, the scientific community has since spoken out forcefully.
And, despite being an embodiment of international law, the EU indulges in soft-law approaches, whether at the recent COP-19 climate-change meeting in Warsaw, or by supporting the “Geneva agreement” on Iran’s nuclear program, which, it is now clear, is nothing more than two aspirational declarations linked by a press release.
Unlike trade agreements, most investment treaties provide foreign investors – including media enterprises and non-profit organizations – the right to press their claims directly before international arbitral tribunals.
Not all governments agree that freedom of speech and of the press should be protected as fundamental checks on power.
One area of concern for civil society nowadays is the press and new media.
Most people think of a free press as a way to keep track of what governments are doing – and so it is.
That is why the press as a whole, and journalists in particular, are so frequently targeted by the authorities.
Right now, every senior politician in America is telling their favorites in the press that they are confident that compromise on the “fiscal cliff” will be reached before the end of December.
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