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The clear loser in the first
round
is the leader of the extreme-right Jean-Marie Le Pen.
The world and Europe in particular will be watching even more intensely this second
round.
Watching the celebration of patriotism behind the raising of the French flag and the singing of the national anthem during the first
round
of the campaign, one can easily believe that the British vision of a Europe of independent nation states has won already, if only by default.
Getting to Yes With Kim Jong-unSEOUL – Has North Korea’s ruler, Kim Jong-un, made a strategic decision to trade away his nuclear program, or is he just engaged in another
round
of deceptive diplomacy, pretending that he will denuclearize in exchange for material benefits for his impoverished country?
Any candidate who won a plurality and at least 25% of the popular vote in the first
round
would win the presidency.
His followers have circulated fake polls suggesting that he would win in the first
round
with 53% – clear evidence that Wade’s clan does not seriously envisage any scenario other than a first-round victory.
If the opposition parties keep their promise to unite behind whichever opposition candidate receives the most votes in the first round,ampnbsp;Wade will most likely lose in the run-off.
With the war against ISIS winding down, a new
round
of violence in Lebanon – between pro-Saudi and pro-Iranian forces, or even between Hezbollah and Israel – cannot be ruled out.
For a world weary of waiting for the World Trade Organization’s interminable Doha trade
round
to conclude, even a bilateral trade initiative may seem like a boon, especially when, as a recent Financial Times editorial pointed out, “bilateral” covers half of the world’s economy.
As for Brazil, many had warned before the first
round
of the presidential election on October 7 that only Lula could defeat Bolsonaro in a run-off.
The rebalancing of growth away from fixed investment and toward private consumption is occurring too slowly, because every time annual GDP growth slows toward 7%, the authorities panic and double down on another
round
of credit-fueled capital investment.
Taking advantage of widespread opposition to amnesty for FARC leaders – a concession that would be an essential component of any deal – Santos’s rivals transformed the first
round
of the election into a referendum on the negotiations.
He recovered by the second round, but won by a much smaller margin than anyone expected six months ago.
Closure of pro-reform newspapers, and the arrests of reform-minded journalists seem deliberate attempts to goad the reformers, who won a majority of seats in last February's first
round
of parliamentary elections.
It was not Trump who is to blame for the failure of the Doha trade
round.
Uribe won an unprecedented re-election two years ago with an absolute majority in the first
round
of the vote.
By contrast, Alejandro Guillier, his opponent in the second round, displayed little understanding of even the most basic policy issues.
Widening the scope of the next
round
of negotiations so that much more can be used as bargaining chips would make the job of the negotiators considerably harder.
Another option is to prepare a new
round
of economic sanctions against Russia – far stronger than those introduced following Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea.
Instead, the government has put forward a fresh
round
of fiscal stimulation, including a RMB60 billion new bond issue and the introduction of a new 20% tax on the interest on savings.
Like it or not, that means we are in line for another stomach-turning
round
on the global economy’s wild ride.
In order to preserve their shared domination, they have more or less agreed to a “Republican Front” strategy aimed at excluding the National Front in the second
round
of all elections.
As US Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to present a framework agreement for a conclusive
round
of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, Netanyahu’s hardline position on Jerusalem is simply a non-starter.
But even if they do, the likely contraction from the next
round
of austerity – which already cost 1-2 percentage points of GDP growth in 2013 – means that growth will remain anemic, barely strong enough to generate jobs for new entrants into the labor force.
Protectionism is on the rise; the latest
round
of global trade talks never came to fruition.
In fact, experts in the European Commission are already predicting that the next
round
of negotiations will lead to three agreements with the UK before October 2018.
Ultimately, this is merely a new
round
of the eurozone’s old game of financial hide-and-seek, whereby losses are obscured by distributing them among different institutions and time horizons.
The stakes in this
round
of humanity's poker game are huge.
While there is no purely technical obstacle to creating an alternative payments channel, doing so is certain to enrage Trump, who will presumably respond with another
round
of tariffs against the offending countries.
Sadly, we will be able to use it again, with no change, at the next
round
of Latin American crises.
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