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EU governments have wanted a pliable Commission, but now the cost could be the death of the “community method” that protects the EU against national frictions.
The first set of rights protects owners and investors from expropriation.
For example, to stop bots from being used to amplify content artificially, platforms may require that users disclose their real identities (though this would be problematic in authoritarian regimes where anonymity protects democracy advocates).
Finally, the Islamic financial framework protects deposit balances, and prevents excessive credit growth.
In other words, FAIRTRADE protects farmers against their rivals and against agricultural laborers.
The EU welcomed the inclusion last year of the following clause in the Chinese Constitution: “The government respects and protects the human rights of the people.”
In China, it is a function of how – and how well – the government responds to and protects the needs and interests of the people.
Flexible exchange rates thus serve as a self-stabilizing device that protects capital-importing countries against overheating.
Because no social safety net protects workers, the government is finding it next to impossible to keep unions as partners in its corporatist design.
And this is true in many other European countries and industries, where the structure of regulations protects suppliers more than consumers, hampering innovation.
Excessive regulation that protects incumbent firms and other vested interests undermines market competitiveness and limits prospects for improved productivity and efficiency.
Indeed, while it protects children from the worst forms of the disease, it does not protect anyone against the most common variant, pulmonary TB.
A strong fiscal framework is indispensable to achieve this, and protects countries from contagion.
And, while the constitution protects a citizen’s “right to life,” it makes an exception when the termination of a life is “in execution of the sentence of a court.”
Second, immigration reform in the US should be enacted in a way that protects the rights of Latino migrants.
But, whereas Zhu had to grapple with local officials to increase the central government’s authority and revenue, thereby stabilizing the economy and unleashing China’s growth potential, Li must cooperate with local governments to create a system that fosters and protects new sources of innovation and economic dynamism at all levels.
Money market funds are an alternative to banks for storing one’s money, offering somewhat higher interest rates, but without the insurance that protects bank deposits in many countries.
Some may still call it the “rule of law,” but it would not be a rule of law that protects the weak against the powerful.
Rigid labor markets and a corporate governance culture that protects incumbent managers, make it hard to reap the benefits of new technologies.
Others support constrained government on the grounds that it protects everyone from waste, rent-seeking, and interference with freedom of choice, and that, when needed, inspired leadership can build the required consensus to address changing circumstances.
Establishing a system of justice that protects these rights is indispensable; otherwise, there will never be a durable and lasting peace in Iraq.
In my 2003 book The New Financial Order, I argued in favor of privately issued “livelihood insurance,” which protects against long-term loss of income and sets premiums on the basis of occupation and training.
Indeed, the US Congress has consistently failed to ratify a package of IMF reforms, agreed in 2010, that would give countries like China greater say in decision-making – a failure that protects Western Europe, whose members benefit most from the status quo.
Hard economic times are correlated with protectionism, as each country blames others and protects its domestic jobs.
The dividing lines may be less sharp than they were with apartheid, but our continued high level of greenhouse-gas emissions protects the interests of one group of humans – mainly affluent people who are alive today – at the cost of others.
Indeed, the declaration protects presidential decrees from judicial review (although Morsi stipulated that it pertains only to “sovereignty” matters, and stressed its temporary nature).
Today's intellectual property regime protects innovators in advanced countries by issuing temporary monopolies, i.e., patents.
The challenge now is to achieve a combination of discipline and flexibility that protects the collective interest.
Because of their size and location, the Baltics can be secure in one of two ways: as part of a military alliance that protects them or as part of a Europe in which they do not need such protection.
In response to my direct question concerning whether the NSA’s surveillance activities violated the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, which protects Americans from “unreasonable searches and seizures” by government officials, Baker claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled on the issue in the agency’s favor.
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