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Another potential step, motivated by the profound asymmetry of eurozone countries’ economic performance during the crisis, would be a joint unemployment-insurance scheme, whereby cyclical unemployment benefits would be financed from the EU budget.
Finally, the refugee crisis has led to a discussion of a joint scheme for enforcing the EU’s external borders, allocating asylum-seekers among its member countries, and financing their integration.
The best candidate for this role may well be the joint unemployment-insurance scheme.
That means strengthening the eurozone, which would probably require wider use of Eurobonds and a eurozone-wide deposit-insurance scheme of some kind.
Regardless of the electoral scheme that emerges from this process, Abbas is determined to incorporate Hamas into the Palestinian political system.
In the coming months, the ECJ will assess the German Constitutional Court’s ruling that the European Central Bank’s “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) scheme – which allows the ECB to purchase weaker eurozone countries’ government bonds, in exchange for compliance with the rules of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) – is illegal.
The OMT scheme could provide that safety net.
If, instead, the ECJ finds a legal argument to validate the scheme – and the German court, sensitive to current financial uncertainties, acquiesces – the ambiguities will be pushed aside, to be addressed later.
But it is hard to believe that the General would have approved of the scheme for a single European currency which Chirac openly supports.
Prosecutors have revealed a wide-ranging kickback scheme centered on the state-owned oil company Petrobras and involving executives, parliamentarians, and government officials.
According to Sidwell, the FAIRTRADE scheme turns developing countries into low-profit, labor-intensive agrarian ghettos, denying future generations the chance of a better life.
This is without considering the effect that FAIRTRADE has on the poorest people in these countries – not farmers but casual laborers – who are excluded from the scheme by its expensive regulations and labor standards.
Yet prices set by the EU’s emissions trading scheme, the largest in the world, are languishing at around $7 a ton – and (subsidized) coal is making a comeback.
“We decided that if we could get 500 people to show interest in a converted car, we could demonstrate that the mass conversion scheme would make sense.”
(Many European governments currently have “cash-for-clunker” schemes that buy and destroy old cars; a cash-for-gas-engines scheme would make more sense by lowering costs and conserving the many car bodies that still work fine.)
A debt-pooling scheme must also address the fact that the strongest countries will inevitably face higher interest rates on their own debts when they become jointly liable for the debts of less credit-worthy governments.
To overcome these obstacles, a eurozone debt-mutualization scheme must satisfy three crucial requirements.
A debt-pooling scheme that satisfies the requirements outlined here would signal that the eurozone member countries are serious about sticking together.
Unless the Treasury overpays for the securities, the scheme would not bring relief.
But if the scheme is used to bail out insolvent banks, what will the taxpayers get in return?
It would take too long to work out the conflicts to include a mortgage modification scheme in the rescue package.
The European Commission has proposed a plan to stimulate investment spending through a new financing scheme, one that we hope will succeed.
Each country would need to restore confidence in its banks’ solvency, which would most likely require a blanket bank guarantee and a recapitalization scheme (such as TARP).
Under this scheme, investors would face a potential insolvency risk, but the maximum loss they could expect is limited to 60% of their investment.
The OMT scheme permits the ECB to purchase weaker eurozone countries’ government bonds, on the condition that these countries’ authorities implement European Financial Stability Facility/European Stability Mechanism (EFSF/ESM) programs.
Indeed, simply by providing a credible backstop against the risk of a eurozone collapse, the scheme has become one of the most successful measures introduced by any central bank in recent history.
For the moment, the only country that has taken real action is the United States, which last year suspended its trade-preference scheme with Argentina, owing to the country’s failure to pay ICSID-adjudicated awards to two US companies.
I am hopeful that they will produce a scheme that could make a difference.
Of course, the language that he used to sell his scheme to the Chinese was very different from the words his father used to present his plans to Hitler.
Attention will inevitably be focused on the US to provide more material and technical support to the security forces; drips of funding for Central America under the term of the Mérida Initiative agreed with Mexico are welcome, but likely to be insufficient in the grand scheme of things.
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