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On the other hand, Iran and Russia, which had previously been less hawkish than Saudi Arabia about OPEC pricing, might now support tougher supply restraints, precisely because a sharp rise in oil prices could cause a punishing backlash against Trump.
It needs to build substantially on its leadership on climate change by adopting much tougher EU goals, and then use its international economic and trade clout to champion new global emissions standards that scientific opinion can accept as meaningful.
It would therefore be right to ask voters where or not they still wanted to go ahead with Brexit on these tougher terms.
By starting with more visible and popular reforms in the short term, policymakers can build constituencies for tougher reforms later.
But emerging economies may also be experiencing another common symptom of an impending crisis, one that is much tougher to detect and measure: hidden debts.
In response, US President Barack Obama’s administration has been working through the United Nations Security Council to impose tougher economic sanctions.
Accordingly, if tougher sanctions prove to be useful, they will do so by confronting Iran with a united diplomatic front, thereby encouraging its government to make a deal in order to end the country’s isolation.
That would be the best backdrop to establishing tougher surveillance and monitoring, beginning to engage with Iran, and searching for a way to involve India and Pakistan in a global nuclear agreement.
This agenda’s interventionism is incremental: tougher economic sanctions, demands that China exercise its influence, creation of a “no-fly zone,” and military force against the Sudanese army.
In Germany, which is preparing for a federal election next year, the Social Democrat Party (SPD) seems to be thinking in terms of détente, while Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union takes a tougher line.
But, if implemented, the commission’s proposed regime would certainly be tougher than what is now on offer in New York or other banking centers.
But the government is caught between a rock and a hard place, hemmed in by a parliament that, strongly backed by a bank-hostile press and public opinion, is eager to enact reforms, and by EU directives to implement a tougher regime.
London has already implemented an approach that is tougher than that of most other financial centers.
Regulators are now appreciably tougher and more intrusive than their counterparts in New York.
Would a tougher position toward Saudi Arabia really be in America’s interest?
But, with 70% of all drug trials now conducted by private companies, such concepts won’t go very far towards tougher regulation.
This development forces moderate leaders in these countries to adopt a tougher stance toward China than they otherwise would, in order to preempt attacks from the ultra-right and assuage their generals.
Before 2007, there was little political interest in tougher global standards, and individual countries resisted the idea that an international body might interfere in their sovereign right to oversee an unsound banking system.
So when the next crisis hit, the FSF was found wanting, and in 2009 the G-20 governments decided that a tougher model was needed – the Financial Stability Board.
Romney is a proponent of free trade, but has said that he would be tougher on China’s trade practices and currency policies.
With tougher economic times inevitably come tougher positions toward foreign competition and outsourcing.
Leave to one side Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s boast that the UK’s financial regulation is tougher than that in the rest of Europe.
Romney has promised tougher negotiations on trade and currency with China, but is generally far more likely to push new trade agreements than the labor-supported Obama administration.
With more realistic expectations, it achieved results: the New START arms control treaty, tougher sanctions on Iran, cooperation on transportation to and from Afghanistan, and Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization.
Competing with one another to prove who is tougher on crime, they have militarized the region’s police forces, and casualties have increased.
And a tougher US stance toward its ally might force the Israelis to try harder to come to terms with the Palestinians.
It may look counter-intuitive, but Europe's falling productivity and shrinking workforce signal even tougher times ahead and strengthen the case for an EU that is more efficient, as well as more democratically responsive.
Almost all of these commentators agree that monetary policy should focus on economic growth, not financial stability (tougher regulation is needed to achieve that).
Even so, hawkish American liberals and hardline conservatives are comparing Obama’s leadership unfavorably with supposedly tougher presidents like Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan.
Much tougher capital requirements for trading-book exposures are therefore needed and will be brought forward as soon as possible.
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