Who Next at the ECB Helm?

Good government requires good people at the helm who have leadership qualities and the best interests of the people at heart.

The anxiety over Jacob Zuma s election as president of South Africa obscures a significant milestone for the first time in decades, a sub Saharan nation has at its helm a champion of ordinary people.

I take this opportunity to extend to him our appreciation for the impressive leadership he is displaying at the helm of the CTC.

While the Muslim Brotherhood has such an organizing principle, its internal rigidity at least with Morsi at its helm made it unfit to govern. Meanwhile, infighting among Egypt s liberals prevented them from establishing a disciplined, reliable alternative to the Brotherhood based on principles like diversity, plurality, respect for women, and freedom of expression.

The type of person at the helm of any central bank is always important but now more than ever, because financial crises always threaten central banks independence.

My country has full confidence in his integrity and competence, which he has demonstrated over the years, both as a staff member and at the helm of the Organization.

If politics is defined as the art of compromise, Arafat was a master of it at the Palestinian and Arab levels. He managed to stay at the helm for over forty years with no serious challengers.

During that visit, I was able to attend meetings with him and other top Iranian leaders, including Mohammad Zarif, Iran s foreign minister and, later, its chief negotiator in the negotiations in Vienna. I quickly saw that with these men at Iran s helm, an agreement would be possible.

And this turns out to have a special power all its own, because people could feel that these leaders were at the helm, not because they enjoyed directing others and not out of the pleasure of being looked at they were there because they had no choice, because they were driven to do what they thought was right.

But it is likely to have a weaker president at the helm. Hollande now has three years to prove that, animated by the right ideas, he can transform his image and that of France with economic results, if not by his personal behavior.

Yet Sharon s untimely departure has by no means reversed the fundamental political and strategic shifts that he initiated. In the short term, while Kadima will get fewer votes without Sharon at the helm, some voters will be swayed by sympathy for the stricken leader.

The President welcomed the new Executive Director, Ms. Ann M. Veneman, saying that she took the helm of UNICEF as it developed its new medium term strategic plan (MTSP) for 2006 2009, accelerated efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals and proceeded with United Nations reform.

But I can surely tell you that in my country, much like on Wall Street and the city of London and elsewhere, men were at the helm of the game of the financial sector, and that kind of lack of diversity and sameness leads to disastrous problems.

National unity is a pathetic political maneuver, she complained, after she was not invited to a rally the day after the attack. But, if the right leaders are at the helm, the January 7 attack could spur a renewed sense of collective purpose and political revival.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

The rotating presidency of the EU is about to shed a spotlight on one of these countries. Hungary s turn at the EU helm comes at a time of fierce debate over Prime Minister Victor Orbán s alteration of constitutional law and suppression of press freedom, as well as a new round of worries about the country s financial sustainability.

Dick Cheney clearly cannot be held responsible for corporate misconduct after he left Halliburton, but there is mounting evidence about misconduct that took place while he was at the helm. Similarly, at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bush appointed in the person of Harvey Pitt a fox to guard the chickens until public outrage forced Pitt's resignation.

It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered the global financial system to the brink of ruin and created the ongoing mess. Worse, seldom is it explained how to square the circle.

The leadership crisis did not reflect a weakening commitment to the governance agenda either by the Bank s professionals or by the countries and shareholders with whom we work. On the contrary, that anti corruption good governance agenda precedes and outlives the person at the helm of the institution.

In economics, we seldom have a clearly defined counterfactual Would the economy have performed even better or a little differently if someone else had been at the helm? We can t know, but there is little doubt that those managing the economy receive more credit than they deserve, if sometimes less blame.

Regardless of whether it charts a course toward a brighter or darker future, a country s political leadership by definition plays the central role at the helm. Leaders of both China and Japan need to accept their position in this process and, above all, not simply ride on the froth of current events.

Whether Germany can continue to perform this role, however, will depend on what kind of EU emerges over the next few years. In particular, if Europe is to succeed with Germany at the helm, Germans and everyone else will have to break more decisively with the past than they have managed to do so far.

The Commission considered agenda item 14 at its 43rd meeting, on 11 April 2005, at its 44th and 45th meetings, on 12 April, at its 48th meeting, on 13 April, at its 49th meeting, on 14 April, at its 51st meeting, on 15 April, at its 57th meeting, on 19 April, at its 58th and 59th meetings, on 20 April 2005 and at its 61st meeting, on 21 April 2005.

The Commission considered the organization of its work at its 1st meeting on 17 January 2005, at its 2nd meeting on 14 March, at its 16th meeting on 22 March, at its 41st meeting on 8 April, at its 48th meeting on 13 April, at its 60th and 61st meetings on 21 April and at its 62nd and 63rd meetings on 22 April 2005.

The Sub Commission considered agenda item 6 at its 12th meeting, on 5 August, its 14th meeting, on 8 August, at its 16th meeting and at the public part of its 17th meeting, on 9 August, at its 18th meeting, on 10 August, and at its 20th meeting, on 11 August 2005.

The Commission considered agenda item 9 and sub item (a) at its 19th and 20th meetings, on 23 March 2005, at its 21st meeting, on 24 March, at its 23rd meeting, on 29 March, at its 50th meeting, on 14 April, and at its 60th meeting, on 21 April.

The Commission considered agenda item 17 at its 48th meeting on 13 April 2005, at its 51st and 52nd meetings, on 15 April, at its 53rd and 54th meetings, on 18 April, at its 58th and 59th meetings, on 20 April and at its 60th meeting on 21 April.

Since he took the helm at the ECB, Draghi has brilliantly walked the fine line required to do whatever it takes to keep the eurozone intact. (After all, there would be little point in upholding pristine principles if doing so resulted in a breakup, and fiscal austerity alone was never going to return the periphery countries to sustainable debt paths.)

Never mind that one would be hard pressed to find anyone in business or financial circles these days with a nice thing to say about Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or the AKP that he led before ascending to the presidency in 2014. And make no mistake Though Turkey s president is supposed to be above party politics, Erdoğan remains very much at the helm.

The Commission considered agenda item 6 at its 14th and 15th meetings on 21 March 2005, at its 44th meeting on 12 April, at its 49th meeting on 14 April, and at its 59th meeting on 20 April.

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At its eighteenth session, the Tribunal decided to continue consideration of the item at its next session.

At its eighteenth session, the Tribunal decided to continue consideration of the matter at its next session.

The Council considered the question of human rights at its resumed organizational session (agenda item 2) at its 9th meeting on 9 June 2005 and at its substantive session (agenda item 14 (g)) at its 37th and 38th meetings, on 22 and 25 July 2005.

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Accepting Japan at Its Word

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82 The Sub Commission considered agenda item 3 at its 6th and 7th meetings, on 28 and 29 July, at its 8th and 9th meetings, on 2 and 3 August, at its 14th and the public part of its 15th meeting, on 8 August, and at its 19th meeting, on 10 August 2005.

The Sub Commission considered agenda item 4 at its 9th to 12th meetings, on 3, 4 and 5 August, at the public part of its 15th meeting, on 8 August 2005, at its 19th meeting, on 10 August, and at its 20th meeting, on 11 August 2005.

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