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Although congressional support for the proposal is weak, Trump’s budget is yet another symptom of his aversion to diplomatic channels.
This proposal is crucial to making the Security Council an essential and effective body in matters of global security.
Such an initiative could co-exist with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy’s proposal to create a risk-sharing mechanism only for eurozone countries.
Here, then, is a modest proposal that applies to all democracies: the marketplace of ideas works better if it is easier for citizens to see the trade-offs between accuracy and entertainment, or between accuracy and party loyalty.
Speculation abounded that Kerry’s proposal would contain a specific US guarantee of Israel’s borders.
One likely objection to this proposal is that low-skilled labor will cost more, which could accelerate automation.
UNICEF leader Anthony Lake, UNESCO head Irina Bokova, and Global Partnership for Education Chair Julia Gillard have lent their support to a platform for the provision of education in emergencies, a proposal that I hope will be formalized at the World Humanitarian Summit in Turkey in May.
But, while a large number of Europeans naively believed that this was the prelude to a joint European strategy, the proposal was drafted in terms that were so vague as to allow any outcome – or none.
For Japan, I like a proposal by Koichi Hamada (a Yale economics professor who is an adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe) and others: the planned jump in the consumption-tax rate should be replaced with a gradual pre-announced path of increases, with the rate rising, say, one percentage point per year for five years.
In fact, the resolution calls on the participants at a conference of donors, to take place in London at the end of January, “to take into consideration the proposal of licensed production of opium for medical purposes, as already granted to a number of countries.”
This proposal was originally made by the Senlis Council, an independent organization based in Paris, during a workshop in Kabul last September.
But the Commission’s proposal is misguided, both in terms of its emphasis on investment and its proposed financing structure.
Both boldness and consensus are urgently needed, and those who doubt that Europe is capable of either can take heart from two recent European Commission decisions: a politically ambitious proposal to force the complete separation of networks of pipelines and wires from the companies that supply gas and electricity; and a proposal that Gazprom and other non-EU businesses can control Union energy assets only if they meet tough new conditions, including reciprocal access to, say, Russia’s market for EU energy companies.
Such is the tyranny of the majority in post-referendum Britain that a “Remainer” proposal for rational debate and persuasion is considered an insurrection.
The proposal is to work with some half-dozen pilot schools, including a secondary school in the United Arab Emirates, high schools in the US and Europe, and a secondary school in Lebanon that is taking in Syrian refugee students.
But, at the same time, another legislative proposal was put forward to liberalize abortion laws, introduce sex education into schools, and guarantee insurance coverage of contraceptives.
The next day, he had his party vote to reject the anti-abortion proposal.
But when Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, was asked, in his debate with his Republican counterpart, Sarah Palin, what proposals an Obama-Biden administration might have to scale back as a result of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, the only specific proposal he mentioned was the increase in foreign assistance.
Water diversion in a difficult drought year, along with Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal for massive new infrastructure to send water south, has heightened tensions.
Nor was there agreement on the proposal to grant the Euro-Group--the economic and finance ministers of the euro area--formal decision-making powers over the economic policies of EU members.
But, rather than producing a specific proposal, he left it to Congress to design the legislation.
The leading proposal, produced by the Senate Finance Committee, fails to achieve any of Obama’s goals.
Last month, the FCA issued a proposal to relax listing conditions for state-owned issuers wishing to qualify for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Premium Listing Segment – the exchange’s “gold standard” segment, governed by stringent regulations.
The proposal is presented as a mere technicality, but it is significant for reasons that extend beyond Saudi Aramco.
Yet the FCA’s proposal would exempt SOEs accepted to the Premium Listing Segment from rules on related party transactions, if more than 30% of ownership is sovereign.
The debate over the FCA proposal reflects a broader struggle that has been going on in capital markets since 1993, when the Stockholm Stock Exchange was converted into a privately held firm.
The FCA proposal suggests that this assumption may no longer be credible, at least not in a United Kingdom hurtling toward Brexit, which has put the City of London’s reputation as a leading global financial center at risk.
The question is whether this proposal is indicative of a new regulatory race to the bottom – and, if so, what consequences investors might face.
The FCA proposal assumes that “investors and the market are sufficiently able to assess the additional risks arising from sovereign ownership.”
The FCA proposal to give preferential treatment to SOEs clearly puts institutional investors at risk.
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