Tag: Presidency
A wonk’s guide to the Czech EU presidency policy agenda – POLITICO
This article is part of POLITICO’s Guide to the Czech EU Presidency special report.
The Czech presidency needs to carry the EU through an energy crisis, galloping inflation and a war in Ukraine — all on a shoestring budget.
Call it the crisis presidency.
In the midst of a war and a gathering economic crisis, the small Central European country will be tasked with making sure the EU secures a lasting supply of energy while not letting go of its
Biden Can Still Turn His Presidency Around
Ronald Reagan did it. So did Bill Clinton. Barack Obama did as well.
Can Joe Biden do it too?
After a difficult first two years in the White House, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama each rebuilt enough public support to win a second term—not long after many observers had labeled them fatally damaged by their early setbacks.
Although the specific environment and challenges confronting those three presidents diverged in many ways, the trajectory of each man’s first term followed the same
The Making of a Coronavirus-Criminal Presidency
Illustration by Ryan Inzana.
The United States is the product of an accountability movement that was never fully realized. Thomas Paine called the country into being with Common Sense, a pamphlet that invited the beleaguered residents of 13 British colonies on the eastern shore of North America to indulge their fury at the imperial abuses of King George III. He ridiculed the “men of passive tempers” who “look somewhat lightly over the offences of Great Britain, and, still hoping
A not so healthy EU French Presidency – EURACTIV.com
Last week, Emmanuel Macron presented his priorities for the EU French presidency, which kicks off on 1 January 2022. Spoiler alert: health didn’t make the top 3. In fact, it didn’t even make the top 5.
Instead, this next chapter of EU presidencies, the motto of which will be “recovery, power, and belonging,” will place an accent ‘aigu’ – French would say – on digital, environment, social and defence.
Perhaps you are (legitimately) wondering where health comes into things, which
These Are the 3 Ways Biden’s Presidency Could Go
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“I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Kurt Vonnegut’s famous novel about the World War
Slovenia’s opposition rejects call for ‘truce’ during EU Presidency – EURACTIV.com
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Before you start reading today’s edition of the Capitals, feel free to have a look at the article Slovenia takes EU driver’s seat as values questions dominate, by Vlagyiszlav Makszimov reporting from Slovenia.
Also, feel free to have a look at EU touts ‘paradigm shift’ in defence as it inaugurates new fund.
The European
There’s No Good Way to Protect the Presidency Anymore
When President Joe Biden announced in the weeks before his inauguration that he was committed to reestablishing an independent Justice Department, he didn’t say that it was going to be easy. During the first few months of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s tenure, the department has sparked ire among its critics on the left—and prompted annoyed statements from the White House—by taking a series of positions that seem, to some, uncomfortably close to the aggressive approaches staked out by the Trump