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The proposal not only failed, but also triggered a political backlash.
By discouraging foreign-exchange transactions, Tobin’s proposal sought to promote exchange-rate stability by preventing national currencies from coming under speculative attack.
Sarkozy can preempt a long-standing proposal of the Socialists in the run-up to this spring’s presidential election.
Tobin would not have been pleased to see his proposal repurposed in this way.
A bipartisan committee has to propose $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction by the end of this year, and Congress must either accept that proposal, or see immediate, politically painful expenditure cuts, which would include defense spending – an area that America’s Republicans care about strongly.
It was such self-interested Republican members who rebuffed Speaker of the House John Boehner’s proposal to maintain current tax rates for all but those earning more than $1 million per year.
If Cuba agrees with the committee’s proposal, the chairman will submit its recommendation for Cuba’s accession to the board, where once again a simple majority is required.
Juncker’s proposal at the MSC echoes similar recommendations on the single market, which he floated in his 2017 State of the Union address.
Inspired by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent proposal to tie EU funding to the acceptance of migrants, member states should also work to create stronger incentives for cooperation.
These moves follow US President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese products, many of which are on the priority list for “Made in China 2025,” President Xi Jinping’s blueprint to transform China into a global leader in high-tech industries like aerospace, robotics, pharmaceuticals, and machinery.
Should one-third of national parliaments so wish, the European Commission will be required to reconsider a proposal.
While Serbia has resisted partition of Kosovo, Russia would also support a Serbian proposal to partition the Serb-populated north, an effort that would open up a Pandora’s box of possible partition of Serbia, Bosnia, and Macedonia.
Such a proposal could get some support in Europe and elsewhere as a seemingly appropriate compromise, even if it would destabilize the Balkans once more.
Obama’s proposal is an important, honest, and politically courageous document.
While packaged in smooth diplo-speak, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s new proposal for European security has the less-than-hidden goal of stopping and rolling back Western influence.
Their proposal was categorically rejected in a joint submission by 16 existing or future member states, all of them small countries, who insisted that the principle of rotation must be retained, as a symbol of the equality of all member states.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the President of the Convention, has formally endorsed the Franco-German proposal.
The same day, the European Commission hit back with a strong criticism of the proposal, saying that it would create rival bureaucracies and a sense of confusion.
Today, by insisting on Presidential rotation and the equality of member states, whatever their size, the small countries are effectively adopting an inter-governmentalist position, because they fear that the real purpose of the Franco-German proposal is to ensure that the Council will remain under the leadership of a big member.
But my personal hunch is that the Franco-German proposal is based on a fundamental error of judgment.
To understand why, consider that their proposal for a permanent Council President was paired with a proposal that the Commission President--currently nominated by the Council of Ministers--should in future be elected by the European Parliament, and subsequently be endorsed by a majority vote of the Council of Ministers.
CONAIE opposes the FTAA and is advancing a proposal entitled Alternatives for the Americas , which offers a more balanced approach to trade liberalization.
In addition, the Kurds will expect to retain a veto over any proposal that might compromise Kurdish autonomy in the northern provinces.
Abdullah Out On A LimbCrown Prince Abdullah’s peace proposal was born in Saudi Arabia but some allege that it was conceived in the US.
The proposal may get a boost when Abdullah meet President Bush in Texas later this spring, but its early survival depends first on its reception at the upcoming Arab summit in Beirut.
A proposal for “full normalization” with Israel coming from an Islamic regime that bases its legitimacy on the austere Islamic doctrines of the Wahhabi seems both peculiar and progressive.
Indeed, the subsequent, deafening silence by other Saudi leaders to the proposal appears to confirm it as a public relations move for which they need not risk any of their own domestic political capital.
Abdullah’s proposal could weaken his position domestically, particularly in relation to the country’s powerful Islamists.
As a result, Abdullah’s initial proposal has been diluted, so much so that, by the time of the Arab foreign ministers meeting held in Cairo on 8 March, the phrase “full normalisation” was watered down to the more amorphous phrase “full peace,” the meaning of which no one knows.
Egypt’s leaders deem the proposal a mere conversation, something not nearly as serious as a written diplomatic initiative.
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