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Cutting taxes is certainly not bad in principle, especially for supporting long-term investment and growth.
Still, some German politicians, especially in the ruling SPD, are in principle in favour of giving the people their say in referenda.
But it is only too easy to imagine what would be the consequence of holding a referendum: enlargement would almost certainly be rejected in practice and in principle by a large majority.
If China sees inviolable state sovereignty as the foundation of twenty-first century international affairs, as now appears to be the case, then it must explain why this principle will not lead to the same disastrous consequences as it did in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
An External Stability Pact would not only detect risks to fiscal stability early on; it would also help make a reality of a fundamental principle of EU law, namely that member states finally treat economic policy as a “common interest.”
Habeas corpus, Latin for “you have the body,” is an old English common law principle incorporated into the US Constitution to ensure freedom from unlawful detention by the state.
Because the SDGs are based on the principle of “leaving no one behind,” they cannot be considered a success until they have been met everywhere, and for all people – including women and girls.
However, this calmness, being in principle a helpful sign, may be premature.
For example, while Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has doubled down on his opposition to a eurozone “transfer union,” Merkel has agreed, in principle, to Macron’s proposal for a joint eurozone budget.
I predict that sustainable development will become the organizing principle for our politics, economics, and even ethics in the years ahead.
My understanding is drawn from a principle contained by the basic Islamic theory of legal reasoning, which asserts that when strong religious interests can be realized only through a particular path of action, that path itself is no longer a matter of choice.
Even if democracy might be viewed primarily as an evil from an Islamic point of view, there is another principle of interpretation of religious laws in Islam, according to which minor evils – even if religiously impermissible or not recommended at first – become permissible, recommended, and even mandatory if they alone can prevent major evils.
One principle does remain true: central banks should try to keep the economy at near full employment by pushing asset prices up when unemployment threatens to rise.
Since then the principle has been applied to many services: traffic wardens and airport security, then railway lines and flight control systems, hospital buildings and even prisons all came to be run by public-private partnerships, or "PPPs" as they are known in the United Kingdom.
The principle is simple.
More recently, Mr. Brown extended the PPP principle to comprise not just the provision of services by private companies, but also by a "third," voluntary or charitable, sector.Britain's "New Deal" to bring long-term unemployed youths into work includes the use of voluntary organisations as a vehicle to future employment.
After all, there is much to be said for the principle of reducing the direct involvement of the state in the provision of services.
Yet a few questions need answers if the principle is to command ongoing acceptance.
All right in principle, but let's wait.
According to Stork, “the cuts are seriously affecting civilians who have nothing to do with these armed groups, and that violates a fundamental principle of the laws of war.”
The organizing principle of global supply chains for most of the post-war period has been to move production toward low-cost pools of labor, because labor was and is the least mobile of economic factors (labor, capital, and knowledge).
But for capital-intensive digital technologies, the organizing principle will change: production will move toward final markets, which will increasingly be found not just in advanced countries, but also in emerging economies as their middle classes expand.
But even if extreme caution is sometimes understandable, it may not be wise, as a matter of general principle, to ban abhorrent or simply cranky views of the past.
The crucial point is that regardless of who is right philosophically, it is only insofar as people accept some such appeal that the legitimacy principle underlying popular sovereignty can work to secure their consent.
That consensus is the simple principle that, in a democracy, it is not necessary to agree – except in terms of how to disagree.
For them, what is at stake is the principle that sovereign countries have the right to chart their own course, rather than be entangled in a larger power’s sphere of influence.
Indeed, it was this principle that, once invoked to justify NATO enlargement in the 1990s, put the two sides on a collision course.
In other words, the G-8 accountability principle became: if the G-8 fails to meet an important target, stop mentioning the target – a cynical stance, especially at a summit heralded for “accountability.”
The major NATO allies all support pooling and sharing in principle; in practice, they are reluctant to provide their military assets for common operations, as was the case in the recent Libya operation.
The time has come to realize fully the principle of European defense integration.
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