Standstill
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The classic argument that the EU, like a bicycle, must always keep moving forward to avoid falling over, is simply not true: the reflection period may be frustrating for federalists, but it also proves that, even at a standstill, the EU continues.
Sadly, history suggests that when oil prices rise everybody starts lending Russia money again, bringing reform to a
standstill.
Previously, weeks of anti-corruption protests launched by Anna Harare, and supported by the country’s rising middle class, had brought India’s government to a virtual
standstill.
In both cases,
standstill
triumphed over progress.
Even the Indian parliament – the “temple of democracy” – has seen its work reduced to a farce, as BJP allies and supporters purposely brought the budget session of the Lok Sabha (the lower house) to a
standstill
in April 2018.
In this event, PDVSA could obtain a court-mandated
standstill
order with respect to legal action against it until a restructuring agreement is reached, thereby avoiding a disorderly seizure of assets.
Europe can no longer afford this
standstill.
In recent months, new legislation and reform efforts have come to a standstill, and the exchange rate has begun falling again.
And yet the Middle East is also a region that, throughout its innumerable conflicts, has hardly changed, languishing in a strange kind of
standstill.
In any case, the time of
standstill
in the Middle East is coming to an end.
The 2007 violence was unique in the sense that it did not begin in smaller cities, towns, or rural areas, but in the capital, Nairobi, bringing Kenya to a
standstill
and turning it into a focus of international attention.
If Europeans disregard Kant’s categorical imperative – i.e., don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you – they should not be astonished if the European Union comes to a
standstill
or even implodes.
By that point, Ukraine’s springtime of freedom had already deteriorated into a very visible development standstill, owing to a mixture of incompetence and corruption that cried out for change.
Everything favors his taking the second option, which will tend to lead to a standstill, and even a step back, in efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This may already be happening: the appreciation of the euro, from $1.20 to $1.30 in the past few months, was enough to bring European growth to a
standstill
during the third quarter of this year.
Then, a glance at your smartphone reveals that guerrillas have kidnapped an army general, and that negotiations to end a decades-long civil war with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Latin America’s oldest guerrilla group, are at a
standstill.
The EU’s real problem in the western Balkans is that the promise (of membership) made to aspiring states in 2003 is no longer sufficient to counter the currents of enlargement fatigue, which has led to reform fatigue, slowing the progress of the region’s applicants to a virtual
standstill.
It would take a good deal more than a hiccup in the EU’s delicate political process to bring integration to a standstill, let alone put it into reverse.
But the retreat slowed after the mid-1990’s until, for some of the biggest and best-known glaciers, such as Gangotri and Siachen, it had “practically come to a
standstill
during the period 2007-2009.”
Sequential GDP growth slowed to a low single-digit pace – a virtual
standstill
by Chinese standards.
French public-sector employees recently brought the country to a
standstill
when targeted by a reform whose main objective was rather modest: to bring their benefits into line with those in the private sector.
A British-led blockade of Iran’s oil brought the industry to a virtual standstill, destabilized the economy, and paved the way for the infamous US and UK-instigated coup which restored the Shah to power in 1953.
The failure of Lehman Brothers in 2008 not only roiled global financial markets, but also brought global trade practically to a
standstill
as wholesale banks refused to fund each other for fear of counterparty failure.
The mechanism would include provisions allowing for a temporary
standstill
on all payments due, whether private or public; an automatic stay on creditor litigation; temporary exchange-rate and capital controls; the provision of debtor-in-possession and interim financing for vital current-account transactions; and, eventually, debt restructuring and relief.
They might also seek a
standstill
on the deep underground enrichment facility at Fordow, near Qom, in exchange for provision of fuel rods for Iran’s research reactor and a freeze on some sanctions.
The charismatic former cricket star Imran Khan, whose Movement for Justice party came in third in May’s general election, and the Canada-based religious leader Tahirul Qadri are leading mass demonstrations that have brought Islamabad to a
standstill
– a situation that Khan and Qadri have pledged to sustain until Sharif resigns.
But achieving that objective will require the
standstill
in Britain’s EU arrangements to continue until new global agreements are ready to implement.
Escalating popular protests by both incumbent and opposition supporters in Madagascar brought the country to a
standstill
until the army itself splintered and sacked the president’s office and central bank, forcing the president to step aside in favor of the opposition leader, Andry Rajoelina.
All of this could lead to a standstill, which, in the current environment, would be tantamount to going backward, threatening not only European integration’s future prospects, but also its past accomplishments.
In 2006, Hezbollah fought Israel to a
standstill
in Lebanon.
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