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But the ultimate test for our proposal is whether the eurozone countries – their confidence shaken by the debt crisis – have an interest in coming together and participating in this voluntary scheme.
And the very cumbersome US Treasury proposal – which combines removing toxic assets from banks’ balance sheets while providing government guarantees – was so non-transparent and complicated that the markets dove as soon as it was announced.
The proposal does not necessarily imply hardship for EU migrants; it simply means that any support they may require over the four-year period is to be financed by their home country.
When the then President-elect Vicente Fox of Mexico traveled to the United States and Canada in the fall of 2000, he carried a bold proposal: after eight years it was time for Canada, the US and Mexico to establish a longer-term goal of creating a North American Community.
It is a fraught proposal, as it resembles Australia’s problematic approach to immigration, whereby migrants are held – out of sight and largely out of mind, often for years – on nearby Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
Especially important is the proposal to channel 30% of the profits of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) – currently running at close to $400 billion – into the country’s woefully under-funded social safety net.
The long-term implications of the agreement stand in sharp contrast both to Obama’s February 2010 budget proposal and to the Republicans’ counter-proposal.
If the government were simply fulfilling its campaign promises, it would already have rejected the proposal.
After their elections this year, France and Germany should issue a joint proposal that reflects concerns about collective responsibility, individual flexibility, and EU solidarity.
For starters, a Franco-German proposal should allow for more fiscal flexibility, but within a strict framework.
Second, the proposal should call for contractual reform-and-investment agreements (RIAs) between individual member states and the European Council, approved by national parliaments and based on country-specific recommendations that are agreed to as part of the European Semester.
Germany rejected the Polish proposal – again on the grounds of Pandora’s box.
But, if anything, Kopacz’s proposal was too modest.
The EU should respond to these changing geopolitical dynamics by adopting the Polish proposal and extending it for more than one year.
It can start by embracing the Polish proposal – and it should move forward from there.
Per Zhou’s proposal, China has championed a transition to a multi-currency reserve system, in which the SDR and an internationalized renminbi would be used more widely, including in countries’ currency reserves.
So far, every realistic proposal has been torpedoed by Assad’s insistence that he remain in power.
A few months ago, the European Commission tried its hand at resolving this problem with a courageous proposal to distribute refugees across member states according to a simple equation that accounts for population and GDP.
Attempts to bring economic rationality and equity to American medicine date back to immediately after World War II, when President Harry Truman's proposal for establishing a national health insurance system brought cries of "socialized medicine" and quick defeat in Congress.
The most determined effort to remake the system arrived with the Clinton administration's proposal for a comprehensive national health insurance system jointly financed by employers and the federal government.
So "incrementalism"--a small fix here and there--became the basic strategy of health-care reform, leading, for example, to programs to provide care for poor children and a current proposal to help the needy pay for drugs.
The courts cannot fulfill these tasks alone, especially in the time the proposal under consideration has allotted – a 48-hour weekend.
The current proposal, which the US House of Representatives has already passed, has other major flaws.
Rather, the current proposal envisages a limited-scale weekend restructuring, requiring that a precise loan structure be put in place years ahead of time.
And yet, under the current proposal, their official means of doing so would be sharply rolled back.
Under the current proposal, the absence of a regulatory safety net could result, if the weekend restructuring fails, in a global chaotic free-for-all, just like the one that followed the 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
Decisions concerning both the multi-year framework and annual budgets should be taken by majority voting in the Council and Parliament, based on a formal proposal by the Commission, leaving decisions about the overall resource ceiling to the Council of Ministers and member states.
As expected, the budget proposal drew fire from the European Commission, which could open its first-ever “excessive deficit procedure” against a member state.
The savings (£1.6 billion) implied by Osborne’s proposal represent only a tiny fraction of Britain’s £310 billion annual bill for social-welfare programs.
The central proposal was ingenious: the Kremlin proposed to guarantee the election’s fairness by installing webcams at all polling stations; every citizen could personally monitor the voting process.
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