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President Barack Obama has dispatched Senator John Kerry to Sudan with a proposal for peace between the country’s North and South.
Though the UK has said that the proposal should be considered, Russia is openly opposed.
The proposal in 2004 by then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan would have united the island by creating a federation of two states.
And terrorist attacks, by their very nature, are intended to provoke irrational backlashes (as evidenced by a recent referendum in Denmark, in which voters unexpectedly rejected a proposal to modify the country’s opt-outs from certain EU home-affairs regulations).
This proposal must now be amended and approved as soon as possible by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers if we are to have a chance of activating the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and proceeding with the other essential pillars of a banking union.
As Piketty admits, his proposal – a progressive global tax on capital (or wealth) – “would require a very high and no doubt unrealistic level of international cooperation.”
But Ballou appears to have persuaded many of the participants at the meeting that his proposal will save more lives in the long run.
Once tax rates were restored to their previous levels, Obama could present his own tax-cut package to Congress – for example, with a proposal in early January that provided greater benefit to lower-income Americans, as he promised during his re-election campaign.
Fortunately, a proposal by UK Chancellor Gordon Brown might provide the needed global breakthrough.
Chancellor Brown's proposal - an initiative called the International Finance Facility (IFF) - does precisely this.
If weakening the ties between the US and South Korea is central to Kim’s strategy, China’s “freeze-for-freeze” proposal plays into his hands.
It would threaten the role of London as a financial center, some complained, as if the proposal was meant to apply just in London and not globally.
President-elect Bush talks about his $1.3 trillion tax cut proposal as an “insurance policy” against recession.
First, prolonged debate over the tax cut proposal, virtually inevitable if the new President insists on it, will create huge uncertainties in financial markets and at the Federal Reserve Board.
Meanwhile, China is quickly strengthening its own economic ties in Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America through its “one belt, one road” policy, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the New Development Bank (formerly known as the BRICS bank), and its own regional free-trade proposal to rival the TPP.
Syria and September 11PARIS – By chance, it appears that the US Congress will decide on or around September 11 whether to endorse President Barack Obama’s proposal to respond militarily to the Syrian government’s use of poison gas against civilians.
Though Congress must guard against repeating its disastrous mistake in 2003, when it supported the war in Iraq, the commitment to promote human rights that the US made following September 11, 1973, seems a more appropriate standard for weighing Obama’s proposal for US military action in Syria.
If the US Congress deals with Obama’s proposal responsibly, and does not yield to those motivated by a partisan desire to embarrass him at every turn, it will enhance its own claim to recapture the constitutional power to authorize military conflict – a power that has been disregarded more often than not in the past half-century.
Obama’s proposal to strike Syria, by contrast, is an attempt to enforce an important human-rights norm by directly punishing – through means that do not involve invasion and occupation – those who committed a gross violation.
Or, it is said, perhaps Putin plans to use next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi as a grandiose setting for a marriage proposal – and perhaps a wedding – to whoever comes next, possibly Kabaeva.
In advance of its release, the Development Research Center of the State Council, China’s official think tank, presented its own reform proposal – the so-called “383 plan” – which offers a glimpse of the direction that the reforms will take.
First, the proposal describes the relationships between the Chinese economy’s three main actors: government, business, and the market.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s recent proposal to provide humanitarian assistance despite the recent spike in tension, is a start in the right direction.
In November 2008, the Swiss rejected a proposal for Dutch-style decriminalization of cannabis.
Trying to determine the “right” level of the renminbi, by contrast, is a fool’s game, and the proposal of a step revaluation to get to that level has become a polemical distraction.
My third proposal relates to the rule of law.
One important proposal comes from Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, who proposes, quite reasonably, that the president of the New York Fed should be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, just like members of the Board of Governors – or any other important economic policymaker.
The deeper question raised by this proposal is whether Musharraf meant to convey a message to the US that Pakistan’s priorities were shifting.
A proposal in the US Senate to increase development and education aid to Pakistan could help in winning the hearts and minds.
Next to nothing, though, is being said about the Commission’s more important, and more integral, proposal: the 20% spending commitment for projects and initiatives that can stimulate resource-efficient business, protect Europe’s collective, boundary-less environment, and ensure a better future for families across the continent.
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