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Obama’s bold proposal received an immediate and enthusiastic reception in Europe.
Taking to the airwaves within hours, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy called the proposal “ground-breaking.”
The proposal involves the world’s two largest economic areas, with national, regional, and global implications.
The proposal for freer transatlantic trade is potentially transformational.
The proposal has the capacity to act as a catalyst for adapting policy approaches to current realities; but it is subject to the dulling forces of twentieth-century mindsets and institutions that are too slow to adapt to twenty-first-century challenges and opportunities.
Even before Obama took office, Republican leaders were plotting to oppose his every proposal, so he could not claim bipartisan support.
One dramatic way to seize the initiative would be to build on Japan’s existing initiatives in post-conflict peace-building with a proposal for an inclusive plan for Asia’s defense and security.
Such a proposal might turn out to be too bold to realize; it would, after all, come up against Asia’s very real divisions.
We did recognize a problem with our proposal: providing relief to over-indebted mortgage holders would have encountered resistance from the many homeowners who had not taken out a mortgage.
Hughes’s proposal for a minimum guaranteed income is a step in the right direction, but it would be a mistake to view it as the panacea.
The World Bank should be ashamed that its president has not yet offered a similar proposal.
The new regulation should be blocked, at least until the Commission commits to put forward a serious proposal for the overhaul of the institutional setting of European competition policy.
Brazil’s “responsibility while protecting” proposal suggests a way forward, by requiring all Council members to accept close monitoring and review of any coercive military mandate throughout such a mandate’s lifetime.
We can only hope that North Korea will respond positively to our proposal.
But Clinton and his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, took seriously the proposal by Khatami, Rafsanjani’s successor, at the UN General Assembly in 2000 for a “dialogue of civilizations” to open what he called “a crack in the wall of mistrust” between Iran and the US.
The budget represents the victory of Italy’s two deputy prime ministers – M5S’s Luigi Di Maio and the League’s Matteo Salvini – over the country’s independent, technocratic finance minister, Giovanni Tria, who had presented a more conservative proposal.
Led by Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica, a group of developing countries, a new rainforest coalition has now come forward with an innovative proposal, not only offering to commit to greenhouse-gas limits, but also showing how this can be done in a way that will promote their development.
But he might support Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s proposal to make the EITC more generous for childless workers, and to enlarge the child tax credit to help low-income families.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert followed suit in his 2008 peace proposal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas; he also recommended internationalizing the Old City’s administration.
One proposal currently making the rounds in Frankfurt is to split Issing’s current portfolio in two, transferring part of the chief economist’s responsibilities to another Board member.
The Republican proposal is to modify the bankruptcy code, creating special provisions for large, complex financial institutions.
A cap of €2.30 per person, hastily proposed after the initial public outcry, and before the proposal was withdrawn, would have done little to ease that burden on low-income Internet users, while drastically reducing the program’s overall revenue.
Even the European Commission’s modest proposal to share responsibility for processing asylum applications and resettling refugees – rather than leaving Greece and Italy solely responsible for processing all of the asylum seekers who reach their shores – has faced inexplicably strong resistance.
Protesting against the proposal – which would redistribute just 40,000 of the anticipated 200,000 arrivals to other EU countries – some countries went so far as to close their borders to migrants entirely.
Last autumn, for example, many French students joined protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to raise the retirement age ever so slightly.
London Bridges to NowhereLONDON – Last week, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resuscitated an age-old proposal for a 22-mile bridge to be built across the English Channel.
Johnson’s bridge proposal shows yet again that the Brexiteers’ entire project is based on a permanent suspension of disbelief.
The German Chancellor categorically rejected May’s proposal to do a “side deal” on European Union nationals living in Britain before the United Kingdom officially triggers Brexit negotiations by invoking Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon.
Given that taxpayers are thus supposed to finance guarantees for deposits up to €100,000 ($133,000) – the median level of Dutch household wealth and twice the German median – the Eurogroup’s proposal boils down to a massive redistribution of wealth in Europe, the dimensions of which are not understood by the public.
While this proposal may sound harmless and almost self-evident, it is not; secured debt needs no further protection, because it is already secured.
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