Maybe our job is to liberalize and fight against that.
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Illinois is the latest state to liberalize its cannabis laws Gov.
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He has so far faced down unions to liberalize labor regulations.
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While liberalizing their economies, they have forgotten to liberalize their minds.
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Relations soured again when the Myanmar government started to liberalize in 2010.
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The pact would liberalize trade from Canada to Chile and Australia to Japan.
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The People's Bank of China said Friday it would further liberalize interest rates.
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The only way to actually control the border is to liberalize legal immigration.
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That, for some, is the next chapter in the fight to liberalize Ireland.
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President Mirziyoyev came to power in 2016 promising to liberalize the tightly-controlled state.
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He vows to liberalize the labor market and slash corporate taxes to encourage employment.
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Singapore aims to fully liberalize its electricity retail market in the second half of 20053.
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China has long said it would further liberalize its vast market at its own pace.
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Macri's stated objective is to liberalize the country's external accounts and improve the operational environment.
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Parliament also postponed to Thursday debate on a proposed law to liberalize the telecoms sector.
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But Mr. Ryan's caucus also fears a vote to liberalize trade rules during the campaign.
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The first state to liberalize abortion in 1967 pre-Roe was Colorado under Republican Gov.
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The traditional story goes like this: Liberalize trade first and positive political changes will follow.
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Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, many Republicans pushed to liberalize abortion laws.
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The good news is recently particularly the president has said they want to liberalize our industry.
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The steps come as Beijing's ambition to eventually liberalize the country's power prices meets repeated hurdles.
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Customs is proposing a "preference override" to liberalize rules that apply to foods such as spices.
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Customs will propose a "preference override" to liberalize rules that apply to foods such as spices.
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May, under pressure at home to reduce immigration, has resisted calls to liberalize the visa system.
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But all of their emphasis and passion were spent on the ways they would liberalize immigration.
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Thus, it is worth highlighting how aggressively Prince Salman has moved to liberalize Saudi society internally.
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The initiative is in line with China's long-planned reforms to liberalize the nation's power markets.
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"I actually think Trump's unpopularity will help liberalize racial attitudes in the long-run," Tesler says.
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He said recent strides to liberalize Cuba had been made easier under former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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But his reforms include no changes that would liberalize a political system that allows no public dissent.
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Even after the financial crisis, we liberalize the markets, for trade, for foreign investments and so on.
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"States moving to liberalize cannabis policy should consider keeping edibles out of the recreational marketplace," he said.
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They called it a once-in-a-generation opportunity to liberalize some of Europe&aposs strictest abortion rules.
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The 12-nation deal would liberalize trade from Chile to Japan, representing 40 percent of the world economy.
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He's pro-choice, favors LGBTQ rights, and wants to liberalize drug laws (He's a former marijuana user himself).
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All in all, it seemed like a common-sense and well-intentioned policy to liberalize health care data.
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Only one state with a legal marijuana measure on the ballot, Arizona, rejected the move to liberalize pot laws.
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This means working to open up Canada's highly protected dairy market and liberalize Mexico's protectionist sugar and energy policies.
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Mr. Rouhani won a second term in 2017 on a mandate to fix the economy and liberalize the country.
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More broadly, policymakers should liberalize access to the US generic drug market by relaxing the FDA's grip on entry.
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Plus, the People's Bank of China said it would further liberalize interest rates in a statement out later on Friday.
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The growing national debate over whether to liberalize marijuana laws is being bankrolled by a handful of billionaires and millionaires.
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And in the first few years of his rule, attempts were made to liberalize the country both politically and economically.
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Mr. Mirziyoyev also proposed to liberalize Uzbekistan's tightly controlled currency market, and he moved to ease strains with neighboring countries.
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Campaigning on fears of a country in decline, he has pledged "shock therapy" to liberalize the economy, à la Mrs.
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Mirziyoyev has promised to liberalize the country and has launched a diplomatic campaign to bring in foreign investment and boost trade.
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In many other areas as well, the desire to control things has won out over the desire to reform and liberalize.
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It reaffirmed that China would actively reduce overcapacity and further liberalize infrastructure investment, meaning a further opening up to private investment.
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To his supporters, Yang Hengjun is a dedicated democracy activist who believed that China's autocratic system would, with time, necessarily liberalize.
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A running theme of Yiannopoulos's interview was his irritation with those who, like Martin, sought to liberalize and modernize the Church.
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Diplomacy is a practical necessity for peace, and it can also help to liberalize and gradually bring normalcy to autocratic regimes.
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Increasingly, though, new governments have been looking at ways to reduce all three in an effort to liberalize the country's economy.
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Why it matters: The Chinese government has been taking steps in recent years to liberalize its capital markets and attract investment.
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It faces the dilemma of how far to liberalize once its economy reconnects to world markets and investment creates new power groups.
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That is precisely China's challenge today: politically liberalize and become a developed economy or remain stuck in "hard authoritarianism" and stagnate economically.
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Effective diplomatic and economic engagement have more power to liberalize, normalize, and prevent Iran from obtaining a bomb than war ever will.
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Yet solar panels are becoming more common, and Kim has moved to liberalize the economy in ways that generate growth despite sanctions.
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Since taking office in April, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has made peace with Eritrea, freed political prisoners and promised to liberalize the economy.
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"JPMorgan welcomes any decision made by the Chinese government that looks to liberalize its financial sector further," said JPMorgan China CEO Mark Leung.
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The new guidelines continue to liberalize the introduction of what are thought to be highly allergenic foods such as peanuts, fish and milk.
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Qatar has since moved to liberalize its real estate sector, opening up new areas to foreign buying in a bid to boost demand.
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Under his leadership, Ethiopia has announced plans to liberalize its centralized economy and loosen the state's monopoly on sectors including aviation and telecommunications.
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Mirziyoyev has said his government would liberalize the foreign exchange market, but the timeframe and the scale of the planned reform remain unclear.
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If we cut red tape and liberalize the internal market for services, goods, capital and people, then all of Europe will be better off.
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China's central bank said it would further liberalize interest rates, according to a statement posted on the People's Bank of China website on Friday.
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The Doha Round to liberalize trade failed in part due to mistrust of the EU's use of the precautionary principle to subvert any agreement.
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We will continue taking bold steps to liberalize and introduce greater market forces, building an economy in which enterprise is allowed, encouraged and protected.
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Then they realized they were going to have to liberalize their economies if they were going to be able to afford their welfare states.
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He joins a growing list of clerics who have reneged on hardline positions as Prince Mohammed arrests critics of his push to liberalize society.
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Bolsonaro's economic team has promised to liberalize Brazil's hidebound economy, rid the country of "socialism," and enact conservative social measures in areas like education.
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"Most trade agreements that we've seen in history are agreements to liberalize markets, to get government out of trade in some sense," he said.
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Subramanian said India would have to demonstrate a commitment to open markets and do more to liberalize trade and investment without worrying about the costs.
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China's central bank has taken some steps to liberalize the exchange rate, measuring the renminbi against a broader basket of currencies instead of the dollar.
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The country's leaders were in favor of repeal, calling it a once-in-a-generation opportunity to liberalize some of Europe&aposs strictest abortion rules.
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In Buenos Aires, the leaders of two of the world's fastest growing economies are expected to endorse efforts to liberalize their trade, Indian officials said.
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Kim Dae-jung had hoped Kim Jong Il would use the money for Chinese-style reforms to kickstart and partially liberalize the North Korean economy.
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Reproductive rights advocates are putting pressure on Latin American countries to liberalize their abortion laws in light of the huge public health threat Zika poses.
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By 2010, the city had decided to liberalize the rules governing short-term vacation rentals, and thousands of licenses were soon granted to apartment owners.
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Business leaders and politicians of both parties now widely say that Washington's past strategy of offering Beijing economic incentives to liberalize its market has failed.
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Western lenders are demanding painful measures to balance the budget and liberalize the economy even though Jordan's standard of living has been declining for years.
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Reproductive rights advocates are putting pressure on Latin American countries to liberalize their abortion laws in light of the huge public health threat Zika poses.
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Xi did say that China would liberalize restrictions on investment in the auto sector by the end of the year, and the deadline was new.
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Northern Ireland has blocked all efforts from London to liberalize its abortion law, which permits termination only if the life of the woman is endangered.
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MICHELLE CARUSO-CABRERA: The idea was we will bring China into the world economy, they will join the WTO, they will liberalize it over time.
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To truly liberalize America's media and communications markets, Congress must step in and rewrite the Communications Act to bring the FCC into the 21st century.
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The global lender has called for an overhaul of the pension system to cut Ukraine's large deficit and action to further liberalize its agricultural sector.
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced plans to liberalize the state-dominated economy and pledged to honour the terms of a 2000 peace deal with Eritrea.
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The accord between the U.S. and 11 countries in the Pacific region to liberalize trade, set common trade standards and cut barriers was reached in 2015.
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Dictatorships that have wanted to liberalize, either because they thought it was the right thing to do or under internal pressure, have tended to be successful.
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It created a showdown between a powerful, autocratic regime that was not inclined to liberalize, even marginally, and millions of citizens who passionately sought such reforms.
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Macron defeated long-established left and right parties by pledging reforms, particularly to liberalize the economy and rigid labor laws, based on pragmatism rather than ideology.
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The lack of such an unemployment benefit scheme made the Greek government reluctant to liberalize labor laws to allow for mass lay-offs, the IMF said.
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RCEP does not require its member states to liberalize their economies, does not protect labor rights, sets no environmental standards and does not protect intellectual property.
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Douthat points out, fairly, that churches that have tried to "liberalize" end up hemorrhaging their members anyway, and that Mass attendance has been flat under Francis.
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The People's Bank of China announced last year that it would let the yuan float more freely as it moved to liberalize the world's second-biggest economy.
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Yet for many Socialists, already embittered by his modest efforts to "liberalize" the moribund economy, Mr. Hollande was committing both a moral crime and a political blunder.
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Turkey said in May that EU membership remains a strategic goal and a deal to liberalize visas for Turks visiting the bloc should accelerate the accession process.
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She said it's even possible that a new leader might liberalize the economy and other elements of society in a bid to attract Western investment and support.
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Chinese authorities suspended the newly implemented circuit breaker system Thursday morning ET. The People's Bank of China said Friday it would further liberalize interest rates, Reuters reported.
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The TPP is one of the world's largest multinational trade and investment agreements, designed to liberalize trade, set common standards and cut barriers among the participating countries.
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The PMDB won plaudits recently for pushing through changes to liberalize the deep-water oil sector as debt-ridden state firm Petrobras lacked the funds to invest.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Elton John, on a visit to Ukraine to raise awareness about AIDS, said Ireland's vote to liberalize its abortion laws showed how mindsets can change.
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"The two countries should boost trade flows, work to liberalize and facilitate trade, expand two-way access to markets," Yang said in the presentation, through a translator.
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That theory held that by integrating China into the global economy and its networks China would gradually liberalize not only its economy but also its political system.
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While nationally, the trend has been to liberalize rules around alcohol and lift what strict restrictions still exist, there is at least one noteworthy exception: Whiteclay, Nebraska.
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The Latvian government has decided to split Latvijas Gaze and to liberalize its gas market by April 2017, although the plan still has to be approved by parliament.
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Bolsonaro, a former army captain, was elected in a polarizing election on a platform to rid the country of graft, be tough on crime and liberalize the economy.
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China Daily said the priority of the central bank was to liberalize interest rates, create a unified capital pricing system and improve access to financing for small businesses.
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Along with France and Belgium, Italy is stuck in a spiral of debt and stagnation which refuses to respond to efforts to liberalize the economy and spark growth.
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Neighboring Ireland voted last May to liberalize its laws, meaning British-ruled Northern Ireland is now the only part of the British Isles with a restrictive abortion regime.
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Saudi Arabia's air travel industry is benefiting from strong population growth and rising incomes since the country announced in 2012 that it would liberalize its domestic aviation market.
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Argentina lifted restrictions on beef in the second week of January, a month after center-right Mauricio Macri took office on a platform to liberalize the spluttering economy.
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Norwegian is taking advantage of an aviation agreement to liberalize travel between the United States and the European Union, updated in 2011, which allows airlines from non-E.
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The NDRC also asked local authorities to reduce intervention during power trading, as it is part of the country's years-long efforts to liberalize the country's electricity market.
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Yet Argentina expects a wave of portfolio and direct investments if President Mauricio Macri settles with the U.S. funds and if reforms to liberalize the economy take root.
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That changed after European Union efforts to liberalize energy markets, encouraging the development of exchanges like Germany's European Energy Exchange (EEX) and France's Powernext, which today cooperate closely.
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But despite making some comments about the need to liberalize Cuba's state-controlled media and improve Internet access, little is known about Diaz-Canel's views on the economy.
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China's forex regulator has also widened the quotas of two other outbound investment schemes in Shanghai and Shenzhen as part of the government's efforts to liberalize financial markets.
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And in 1996 Schlafly, who co-chaired Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign, wrote the GOP's "no exceptions" anti-abortion platform and fought off Bob Dole's efforts to liberalize it.
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As some states have moved to liberalize their abortion laws while also setting limits, Republicans have homed in on the provisions that regulate the procedure later in pregnancy.
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But it also threatens to undermine the fragile democratic advances made by the United States in the past 15 years, and perhaps undo efforts to liberalize the country.
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Jonathan Stromseth, the Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asian Studies at the Brookings Institution, said Vietnam's choice to liberalize its economy was one made out of desperation.
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Modi's government has been pushing hard on a plan to liberalize the coal sector, and his cabinet recently passed a proposal allowing 100% foreign investment in coal mining.
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Proposals to liberalize the sector, however, have been stifled by resistance from Coal India's worker unions, which have issued strike notices for next week to protest the move.
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His government has promised to liberalize the bureaucratic, state-controlled economy, unbanned many political parties and dismissed or arrested many senior officials accused of corruption, torture or murder.
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Given its struggle to stay solvent, let alone relevant, in a ubiquitously digital world, we would do well to liberalize our mail and cut the Postal Service loose.
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On a broader strategic point, Fang emphasized that his country actually sought to liberalize many of the same parts of its business environment that have attracted U.S. complaints.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland voted by a landslide to liberalize its highly restrictive abortion laws as 66 percent of the electorate backed a referendum, official results showed on Saturday.
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Facebook dominates the social media landscape in Myanmar, where millions of people have come online for the first time since reforms to liberalize the telecoms sector began in 2013.
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" Sanders also joked about the pope's push to liberalize aspects of the Catholic Church, adding, "you know, people say Bernie Sanders is radical -- read what the pope is writing.
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Mexico, the United States and Canada signed off on amending NAFTA to liberalize rules of origin for a host of products, the Canadian prime minister's website said on Wednesday.
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It was the first big U-turn for a president elected 18 months earlier on a platform to break with traditional French politics and liberalize the heavily regulated economy.
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Trump has said before that he would liberalize the GOP's abortion platform by adding exceptions — but he hasn't really mentioned that again since picking Pence as his running mate.
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The far-right president has promised to liberalize Brazil's hidebound economy, rid the country of "socialism," quell violent drug gangs and enact conservative social measures in areas like education.
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"Many people are motivated by the fear that our country wants to liberalize abortion in any case," a representative for 40 Days for Life Colombia told Broadly over email.
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China's forex regulator last month also widened the quotas of two other outbound investment schemes in Shanghai and Shenzhen as part of the government's efforts to liberalize financial markets.
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Some people, particularly younger residents, say it is more important to focus on the city itself, as opposed to broader questions of whether China's central government will ever liberalize.
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Canadian legalization also threatens to undo the existing treaties that prohibit the legalization of marijuana and could lead to a cascade of countries looking to liberalize their own laws.
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And although Arkansas politicians have for several years promoted legislation to liberalize gun restrictions on public campuses, neither the university leadership nor the students have been asking for them.
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The same official involved in negotiations with both countries said Mexico needs to limit the imports of used vehicles from the United States before Brazil can fully liberalize trade.
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President Emmanuel Macron of France, on a quest to liberalize the economy, has now confronted a towering foe that has humbled would-be reformers before him: the railway unions.
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Pushing countries to be more democratic and liberalize their economies has been a core tenet of US foreign policy for years, one followed by Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
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Iberdrola decided to enter Italy's retail power market last year and did not change its mind after Rome postponed by a year, to 2019, plans to fully liberalize tariffs.
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The rebound has been led by the financial sector, which President Xi Jinping has labeled a key part of China's core competitiveness and Beijing has vowed to liberalize further.
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It's not an original one, but it works: We can liberalize immigration laws, making it easy, not deadly, for those born outside the US to have a life here.
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A traditional opponent of efforts to liberalize drug laws, Pena Nieto began to modify his stance in recent months, reflecting growing regional disenchantment with the so-called War On Drugs.
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A decade ago, as president, he introduced a series of reforms to liberalize and boost the centrally planned economy, yet it remains heavily state-dominated and bound in red tape.
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The White House statement was released as Trump spoke in Miami to announce that he was reversing some of former President Barack Obama's moves to liberalize U.S. relations with Cuba.
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The Carter administration pushed the Shah to liberalize, which he willingly did, freeing prisoners, opening jails to international inspection and plotting free elections, while jailing some of his own officials.
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A deal with a foreign player would help dispel concerns about China's commitment to liberalize while it remains in the grips of a crippling trade war with the United States.
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The company's electricity distribution arm, which suffered under the prior government's price suppression policy, is also expected to return to profitability as President Mauricio Macri tries to liberalize the sector.
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The appointment of Salas appears to signal a break with the Socialist Party's promises for market-friendly reforms last year, which ended in aborted efforts to liberalize cumbersome currency controls.
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Since the 1990's, the United States has pursued a policy to liberalize the operation of international air services by negotiating new bilateral agreements with each of its trading partners.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison said on Friday he was optimistic about China's economy, and that global fiscal moves to spur growth should liberalize and energize the private sector.
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That means the refugee deal could well unravel, as there seems little inclination in Ankara to liberalize its terrorism legislation or in Brussels to grant visa-free travel to Turks.
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There is a sizable faction of traditionalist prelates who have resisted the pope's moves to liberalize the church to accommodate modern attitudes — which they see as a weakening of doctrine.
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Instead, it argued that countries will view their competitive edge as temporary, behaving with caution as they expect others to liberalize trade to improve their own efficiency and restore competitiveness.
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Critics say the powerful son of the king is not doing enough to liberalize politics in a country where the monarch enjoys absolute authority and that he has targeted dissidents.
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International pressure forced East Asian countries to liberalize their capital flows, which led to a financial crisis that the IMF subsequently made use of to demand even more painful austerity.
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Leaked minutes from a meeting of the Chinese central bank in March show China has stepped back from its commitment to liberalize the yuan, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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With a Republican candidate who spends much of his time railing against immigrants, this selection would send a strong signal that the Clinton administration would fight for legislation to liberalize immigration.
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His policy about immigration reform, about legal immigration, really resonated with me—that we need to liberalize immigration more and to admit more immigrants, and to get rid of chain migration.
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Mirziyoyev has also taken steps to liberalize other policies, moving to ease restrictions on travel and foreign exchange, as he seeks to improve ties with the West and attract foreign investment.
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Earlier this week, China's forex regulator said it widened the quotas of two other outbound investment schemes in Shanghai and Shenzhen as part of the government's efforts to liberalize financial markets.
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Corporate China's still evolving risk-management culture, however, poses a dilemma for Beijing, which has been under international pressure to liberalize the yuan while also seeking to prevent destabilizing currency swings.
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The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has presented himself abroad as a reformer who is working to loosen some of the kingdom's strict moral codes and to liberalize its economy.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's forex regulator said on Tuesday it widened the quotas of two outbound investment schemes in Shanghai and Shenzhen as part of the government's efforts to liberalize financial markets.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil wants to liberalize trade in vehicles and auto parts with Argentina and Mexico, Trade Minister Armando Monteiro told Reuters on Thursday, in a major shift away from protectionism.
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It's a story in which the United States led the globe after World War II to liberalize trade so that American manufacturers could make things and sell them to other countries.
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Ireland's referendum on whether to liberalize its abortion laws will give voters the first opportunity in 35 years to repeal a constitutional ban that has long divided the once deeply Catholic nation.
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Earlier, parliament rejected a proposal to liberalize the abortion rules which allow the procedure only when the mother's health or life are in danger or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.
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But reform has been sluggish, held back by a debate between reformers keen to lessen dependency on oil and gas revenues, and an older guard reluctant to liberalize a state-dominated system.
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Despite efforts by Brussels to liberalize Europe's airline industry 25 years ago it has lagged North America in terms of consolidation, where nine major airlines became five in the decade to 2015.
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This conscious effort to liberalize trade helped to boost the value of global merchandise exports by nearly 300 times, from an inflation-adjusted $58 billion in 85033 to $16.5 trillion in 2015.
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Not surprisingly, this one-sided policy was resented—and for a long time, it allowed the US to pretty much prevent even the smallest attempts to liberalize drug policy from taking hold.
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He would also introduce the policies of glasnost ("openness") and perestroika ("restructuring") in order to liberalize the Soviet system, creating room for dissenting viewpoints and artistic experimentation as well as economic modernization.
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It is expected that the deal will liberalize 99 percent of trade between Japan and the EU, benefiting Japan's autos industry and the EU's farming sector in particular, according to BBC reports.
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TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbekistan will liberalize its domestic migration system which bars provincial dwellers from moving to the capital unless they have already secured a job there, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said on Friday.
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Macron has cut hard against this culture; when the political season begins again in the next few weeks, his plans to liberalize the labor market will meet the force of the unions.
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To ease the financial burden on employees and reduce overcrowding in the traditional tech hubs — as well as share more of the industry's bounty with other communities — managers should liberalize their policies.
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Those advocates argue it would be better for retail investors if regulators encouraged companies to go public earlier in their life cycles than to liberalize the rules on investing in private companies.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - People in New Jersey will be able to mark their gender as "undesignated/nonbinary" on their birth certificates from Friday, the latest U.S. state to liberalize its policies.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Early counting of votes suggests that Ireland has voted by a landslide to liberalize some of the world's most restrictive abortion laws, a lawmaker monitoring the count said on Saturday.
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"One way China can induce natural inflows is to further liberalize its onshore bond market, and by doing so it could become eligible for inclusion into the major global bond indices," it said.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Membership of the European Union remains Turkey's strategic goal and a deal to liberalize visas for Turks visiting the bloc should accelerate the accession process, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.
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So, again, these are people who lie, cheat, and steal to maintain their hold in power -- and they have to, because when these countries liberalize, (INAUDIBLE) personally murdered like Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.
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Both candidates also oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal between the U.S. and 11 countries in the Pacific region reached last year to liberalize trade, set common trade standards and cut barriers.
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The role of AfCFTA is to liberalize trade among those member states that are not currently in the same REC, said Trudi Hartzenberg, director at Tralac, a South Africa-based trade law organization.
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"Adding California to the regulated [recreational] market for cannabis is a really big deal," said Heather Azzi, a senior attorney for the Marijuana Policy Project, an advocacy group working to liberalize marijuana laws.
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The rail workers are expected to be joined by civil servants and energy sector workers on Tuesday for another day of mass protests against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to liberalize the French economy.
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While the deal will likely liberalize Cuba's economy, there's nothing in it that actually requires Cuba to become one iota less authoritarian, and it's not clear that economic openness will lead to democracy.
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With the ouster of Davutoglu, investors are worried about whether the government will deliver on promises of long-overdue reforms to liberalize the labor market, encourage savings and bring in more private investment.
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SVU appeals to Democrats more than just about any other cop show, and with that party showing the strongest movement on criminal justice, it made sense for the show to liberalize in turn.
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But as frustration grew in the business community with China's perceived refusal to liberalize its economy, the Republicans also hardened their stance toward Beijing and business lobby groups cooled their pro-China stance.
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Shares in Brazilian gun maker Taurus Armas SA have climbed some 88 percent year-to-date amid expectations that Bolsonaro would win the election and follow through on promises to liberalize gun laws.
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France was roiled in late 2018 and the first half of this year by sometimes violent anti-government protests against high living costs and Macron's first wave of reforms to liberalize the economy.
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Greece has to continue focusing on reducing the level of bad loans in its financial sector and extend labour market reform to liberalize Sunday trade and allow for collective dismissals, the fund said.
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China will liberalize only at a pace that suits its own purposes, and merely offers to buy more American agricultural commodities and energy products and disingenuous promises to better honor intellectual property rights.
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Nazarbayev's successor, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has said he would liberalize laws governing protests - which currently make any rally not explicitly sanctioned by the authorities illegal - but such changes have not yet been implemented.
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"If we were to liberalize services to the same degree as we have liberalized (trade in) goods, these balances would be cut in half for the United States and for the UK," Carney added.
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With its economy crumbling after support from Russia and Venezuela evaporated, Cuba began in 2011 to liberalize very gradually, allowing private enterprise to flourish in certain sectors, particularly those related to tourism, like restaurants.
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In Brazil, where the Zika outbreak started, the government has been subject to international pressure—from the United Nations, alongside other organizations—to liberalize its law in a bid to help contain the virus.
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State-owned telecom company Etecsa, the only internet provider on the island, will continue to operate without competition but the country will reportedly liberalize policies that prohibited the importation of routers for personal use.
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Fastest growing economy Another major announcement by the new government center around plans to liberalize the economy, including decisions to privatize fully or partially lucrative state enterprises such as aviation, energy, telecommunication, and manufacturing.
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Trump's recent trade speech all but confirmed his departure from Republican orthodoxy on trade, so it's unlikely that Republicans will either be able to continue to liberalize the economy or provide for American workers.
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A more productive alternative would be to place limits on the number of 25-man roster spots pitchers can occupy, and then liberalize the rules for moving them on and off the active list.
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Elected in February, the 290-seat assembly replaces one dominated by hardliners suspicious of detente with the West and who curbed pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's plans to liberalize the economy and raise lackluster productivity.
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Other economists have argued the main reason Abe's policies have disappointed after more than three years in office are a lack of bold steps to liberalize the labor market and reverse a population decline.
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Since taking office in late 2012, Abe has enacted reforms to draw more women and elderly people into the workforce, raise wages for part-time workers, liberalize the labor market, and encourage business investment.
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In addition, there have been several ambitious attempts to liberalize regional trade, notably the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement, as well as a dense network of bilateral free trade agreements.
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Philippe Martinez, the secretary general of the hard-line General Confederation of Labor, which spearheaded the nationwide strikes this year, threatened a "mass mobilization" if Mr. Fillon tried to liberalize the economy too much.
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"Americans are in no danger of seeing their news and information monopolized, least of all by newspapers," wrote the Heritage Foundation's James Gattuso in 2008, arguing to liberalize the broadcast-newspaper cross-ownership rule.
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Valls now has to disentangle himself from Hollande's deeply unpopular presidency, during which the premier spearheaded reforms to liberalize the labor market and talked tough on law and order - causing deep rifts within party ranks.
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In Northern Ireland, pro-choice politicians and campaigners want to liberalize the country's strict stance, which is now out of step with the rest of the UK and the rest of the island of Ireland.
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However many credit McDonald's role in the 2018 referendum that voted to liberalize Ireland's abortion laws with laying the groundwork for the surge in support for both her and the party, particularly from younger voters.
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Citi welcomes any government moves to further liberalize the financial markets, said Christine Lam, chief executive of Citi China, adding that the bank continued to grow its own retail and institutional business in the country.
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Moves to liberalize access to professions such as pharmacies, notaries and taxis, have also failed to make headway, stuck in parliament for the past two years as the government avoids conflict with powerful vested interests.
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The government has been on a push to win back confidence, but investors remain skeptical, saying sweeping structural reforms are necessary to boost productivity, liberalize the labor market and increase output of value-added exports.
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Rouhani, a pragmatist who has eased Iran's international isolation and now faces mostly hardline conservative challengers for the presidency, told supporters he needed a stronger mandate to liberalize Iranian society and get opposition leaders freed.
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China and Hong Kong launched the "Bond Connect" scheme in 2017 to link China's $9 trillion bond market with overseas investors, the latest step in Beijing's efforts to liberalize and strengthen the country's capital markets.
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Fazliddin Parpiyev, former cleric at one of the capital Tashkent's mosques, was the first dissident to leave Uzbekistan under Mirziyoyev who has largely sought to liberalize the former Soviet republic and encouraged emigres to return.
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Saeed Leylaz, a pro-reformist analyst and economist, is encouraged enough by the election results to believe Rouhani and parliament can now start working to liberalize the economy, curb corruption, entice investment and boost productivity.
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The Irish referendum on whether or not to liberalize its abortion laws will give voters the first opportunity in 35 years to repeal a constitutional amendment that has long divided the once deeply Catholic nation.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a message for the world during his opening speech at the 19th Communist Party Congress: China supports an open economy, and it will further liberalize its markets to foreign investors.
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Although China has pledged to liberalize its economy, "three or five years from now is not soon enough, it needs to happen quicker and that's what we're working to try to get accomplished," he said.
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However, a different four of the seven ruled that the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, which had initiated legal proceedings to try to liberalize the law, did not have the right to bring the case.
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China has moved to liberalize deposit and lending rates over the past decade, but the state-led banking sector still faces significant government involvement, from setting of lending quotas to directing lending into favored industries.
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Though such speeches are not China's usual vehicle for announcing specific policy measures, some investors had been hoping for signals that Beijing would take further steps to liberalize the economy or ease tensions with Washington.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore on Monday announced it had begun to feed solar power into its retail electric grid for the first time, as it seeks to reduce emissions and prepares to fully liberalize its electricity market.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch its first real-time spot electricity markets in eight regions, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Friday, as Beijing accelerates efforts to liberalize power prices currently set by the government.
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"The timing was right because the government was just starting to liberalize the media sector to allow private companies to create content," says Phuc Than, managing director of DFJ VinaCapital, a Vietnam-focused venture capital fund.
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Paolo Spadoni, the author of several books on the Cuban economy, said Cuba should on the contrary liberalize distribution, reduce the state quota for Cuban producers and give farmers freer rein to set their own prices.
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Surrounded by a small coterie of close aides dubbed the "Macron boys", the 41-year-old pushed through a series of reforms to liberalize the economy and cut taxes in his first 15 months in office.
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Mirziyoyev has moved to liberalize foreign exchange and travel regulations and had about 16,000 people struck off a blacklist of potential extremists, reforms that may help him rebuild ties with the West and attract foreign investment.
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Earlier on Wednesday, parliament rejected a proposal to liberalize the abortion law which otherwise only allows the procedure only when the mother's health or life are in danger or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.
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Beijing has been keen to shore up bilateral trade deals and promote the 16-member Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in the face of TPP, concerned by Washington's effort to reshape and liberalize Asia's trade rules.
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Macron has also managed to put through measures to increase transparency in parliamentary funding, to reduce wealth taxes in an attempt to make France more business friendly, as well as to liberalize the country's labor market.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has instructed government agencies to scrap or start easing barriers that foreigners face in multiple business and employment sectors, part of moves to liberalize an economy long criticized as restrictive.
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Trump signed an executive order late last month directing the government to consider ways to liberalize rules governing these retirement plans, which already enjoy bipartisan backing in Congress and strong support from the financial services industry.
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Mirziyoyev, who succeeded late strongman Islam Karimov, who ruled resource-rich Uzbekistan for 27 years, has moved to curb security bodies' powers as part of a campaign to liberalize and open up the previously isolated nation.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's prime minister on Saturday hailed the culmination of "a quiet revolution" in what was once one of Europe's most socially conservative countries after a landslide referendum vote to liberalize highly restrictive laws on abortion.
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Despite his continued attacks on undocumented immigrants in his address, the mere mention of a proposal to liberalize policy is anathema to many Tea Party Republicans who represent constituencies that are sympathetic to hardline anti-immigration sentiment.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - Hundreds of women's rights activist rallied in Belfast on Monday to put pressure on British Prime Minister Theresa May to reform Northern Ireland's highly restrictive abortion rules after neighboring Ireland's vote to liberalize its laws.
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"The new policy is in line with the BSP's thrust to further liberalize FX rules while maintaining a safe and sound financial system, a stable FX market, and an appropriate monetary policy," Guinigundo said in a statement.
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The deal also underlined the transactional side of a mayor who says he is on a mission to liberalize New York City, even as his efforts are propelled in part by wealthy contributors tied to special interests.
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On the economy, Mirziyoyev has promised to liberalize Uzbekistan's notoriously byzantine foreign exchange regulations, one of the main headaches for both local and foreign businesses, but has so far given no details or timeline for such reforms.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - Abortion rights activists in Northern Ireland called on the British government to end what one group described as the province's "Victorian-era abortion ban" after neighboring Ireland voted by a landslide to liberalize its laws.
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Trump's NSS jettisons this assumption, rightly recognizing that China has gamed international institutions, failed to liberalize its political system, pursued a mercantilist economic policy and undertaken a military build-up directly aimed at undermining U.S. military advantage.
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He reinstated them after poor Egyptians rioted, attacking symbols of the growing divide between them and wealthier classes they saw as the beneficiaries of Sadat's policy to liberalize the economy after more than a decade of socialism.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The practical impact of the latest round of U.S. sanctions relief for Cuba will depend in large part on action the Cuban government may take to liberalize its economy, U.S. officials told reporters on Tuesday.
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His first reform plan to allow more shops to open on Sundays and liberalize sectors such as transport and legal professions was rammed through parliament last year to demonstrate France's reform zeal to its euro zone partners.
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Irish voters will be asked on May 25 whether to liberalize the abortion laws, the first opportunity in 35 years to overhaul one of the world's strictest regimes that has long divided the once deeply Catholic nation.
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The outspoken, populist leader said it was high time to change regulations and liberalize sectors like energy, power and telecoms to make the country more competitive, and give Filipinos better services and a share of the wealth.
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Resistance by some EU member states to agricultural imports, such as Ireland and France, has delayed negotiation of the free trade agreement with Mercosur that seeks to liberalize trade and investment, services and access to public procurement.
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The Irish government's push to liberalize the laws is in contrast to the United States, where abortion has long been legal, but President Donald Trump backs stripping federal funding from women's health care clinics that offer abortions.
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Voters in nine states will get to decide whether to liberalize laws involving marijuana this year in a rush of ballot measures that pro-pot activists see as a critical tipping point in the fight over legalization.
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Thus far, they have wisely sought to liberalize trade on a number of fronts, such as increasing de minimis customs thresholds, opening up Canada's overly protected dairy markets and pressuring Mexico to privatize its state-owned enterprises.
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But union officials say the strike wave, unlike pre-Macron versions that successfully torpedoed attempts to liberalize the economy, appears to be losing steam with more and more workers doubting they can force government to change course.
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Ethiopia's telecoms industry is considered the big prize in a push to liberalize the country's economy launched last year by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed because of its huge protected market serving a population of around 100 million.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a showdown with ministers and lawmakers in her Conservative party after refusing to back reform of Northern Ireland's highly restrictive abortion rules after neighboring Ireland's vote to liberalize its laws.
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The Irish referendum on whether or not to liberalize its abortion laws will give voters the first opportunity in 35 years to overhaul one of the world's strictest regimes that has long divided the once deeply Catholic nation.
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" They are saying that their trade surplus with the U.S. would be cut by "24 to 34 percent" if Washington would "liberalize its export barriers against China to the same level as those applicable to Brazil or France.
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There is a painful irony here, they say, since Australia has embraced free trade in farm goods, and even pressed other nations to liberalize their markets, in the belief that agriculture is one of its most competitive industries.
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China's leader, Xi Jinping, took power in 2012 and has done nothing to liberalize the country as some had hoped, instead his regime has delivered strong economic results under tight government control which has kept the wealthy happy.
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The sale marks the latest move by China, one of the world's top gas importers, to liberalize natural gas prices, open up access to oil and gas infrastructure and shore up supplies as the peak winter demand season approaches.
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Omelyan told Reuters in an interview in March that he expected legal cases to be opened against him because he is helping to drive reforms that aim to liberalize the ex-Soviet republic's economy, purge corruption and improve governance.
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The leadership reshuffle at the PBOC is closely watched in global financial markets as monetary policy changes and any moves to further liberalize the financial system of the world's second-largest economy would have repercussions well beyond China's shores.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's biggest state-run energy company, has launched a national power company to buy and sell electricity at lower prices, taking advantage of Beijing's push to liberalize the country's power markets.
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"As LNG markets continue to liberalize and new types of price agreements emerge between buyers and sellers of LNG, a range of hedging products are critical to allow the market to hedge risk and manage price exposure," they added.
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CAPE TOWN, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Ethiopia should slowly liberalize its exchange rate regime, but moving to a fully floating rate for the birr currency is unlikely over the next three years, its central bank governor told Reuters on Friday.
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But the controversy over Slay's video goes deeper than just the race issue: It also exposes deep tensions that are roiling Saudi society as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attempts to liberalize some aspects of the conservative Muslim country.
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It also drew in supporters with a new leader, Mary Lou McDonald, a 50-year-old Dubliner who helped shed the party's reputation for having predominantly male supporters and who pushed it to liberalize its position on abortion rights.
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They may also push back on the proposal for Mexico and Canada to match recent U.S. steps to liberalize their treatments of express shipments (raising de minimis levels), but this is a fair request consistent with private sector input.
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The move to liberalize sectors of the economy which have always been off limits to foreign investors came as a surprise after the new premier had signaled to local businessmen that the government would remain involved in infrastructure, banking and telecoms.
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The outcome was possible because two years ago, President Emmanuel Macron pushed through measures to liberalize France's highly regulated labor market and reduce the unemployment rate which, at 8.5% in August, is more than double that in Britain or Germany.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Sustained trade tensions could slash Asia's economic growth by up to 0.9 percentage point in coming years, the International Monetary Fund said, urging policymakers in the region to liberalize markets to offset the fall in export sales.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish voters are set to liberalize one of the world's most restrictive abortion laws by a margin of 68 percent to 32 percent, an exit poll showed on Friday, following one of the highest reported turnouts for a referendum.
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As a congressman, he supported President George W. Bush's efforts to liberalize immigration policy, and privatize Social Security, and, at least until he became Trump's running mate, the Indiana governor supported corporate-backed trade policies including the fledgling Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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But with a vote on whether to liberalize Ireland's abortion regime due on May 25, she and scores of other women are sharing their stories on both sides of the issue on social media, at campaign launches and through media interviews.
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In December, Beijing said it would allow limited convertibility of the yuan in free trade zones in Guangdong, Fujian and Tianjin, in a move to further liberalize its capital account after its currency was admitted to the IMF's reserve basket.
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Much to the chagrin of liberals in his own party, Obama was routinely criticized for being too reliant on deportations as he sought a grand compromise with the Republicans to liberalize immigration laws for those who were already in the country.
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The bill would increase value added tax by 1 percentage point to 24 percent, raise tax on fuel, tobacco and alcohol, liberalize the sale of banks' non-performing loans and detail the set-up a new privatization fund, government officials said.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's new Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube may scrap the quasi currency bond note and liberalize exchange controls as part of reforms he plans to implement by end of this year, a state-owned weekly newspaper reported on Sunday.
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The White House issued a statement praising the decision to lift the driving ban for women, and members of the media heaped praise on the young ruler's apparent desire to liberalize at least some aspects of Saudi Arabia's rigidly conservative society.
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Macron has so far ignored voter anger and a precipitous decline in popularity, pressing ahead with policy to liberalize the heavily-regulated economy and confronting head-on labor unions and other vested interests he believes have choked growth in the past.
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The company aims to set up about 20 entertainment centers around the country over the next several years, as Saudi Arabia tries to use the leisure sector to create jobs, liberalize social norms and diversify the economy beyond oil exports.
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Lawmakers voted on Wednesday to liberalize New Zealand's abortion law and allow unrestricted access during the first half of pregnancy, ending the country's status as one of the few wealthy nations to limit the grounds for abortion during that period.
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Lawmakers voted on Wednesday to liberalize New Zealand's abortion law and allow unrestricted access during the first half of pregnancy, ending the country's status as one of the few wealthy nations to limit the grounds for abortion during that period.
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The crown prince, who pledged to liberalize the economy as well as social codes, oversaw the detention in November of hundreds of wealthy businessmen on undisclosed corruption charges, seeking to force them to surrender assets in exchange for their freedom.
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A top court in Colombia declined to legalize abortion on Monday, disappointing abortion rights supporters who had hoped the case would herald a shift in Latin America and encourage other nations in the region to liberalize their laws.
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The outcome was possible because two years ago, President Emmanuel Macron pushed through measures to liberalize France's highly regulated labor market and reduce the unemployment rate which, at 8.5% in August, is more than double that in Britain or Germany.
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The likely job losses will be a blow for President Emmanuel Macron, coming at a time of public rebellion over his reforms to liberalize the economy, including an easing of labor laws, and battles to haul down the country's stubbornly high unemployment.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's CNOOC sold access to its Yuedong liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to state-owned Zhenhua Oil and private logistics firm Longkou Shengtong Energy, its first such auction as the country pushes to liberalize its vast oil and gas market.
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In the meantime, Acting SEC Chairman Mike Piwowar indicated Tuesday he would be interested in exploring whether the regulator might be able to use its broad exemptive powers to liberalize the crowdfunding requirements until Congress can act to make more permanent changes.
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Nathan Sheets, Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, told a policy forum that the United States supports the IMF's Egypt program and believes that reforms required by the IMF will be challenging, but are necessary to liberalize Egypt's economy and make it more competitive.
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The leadership reshuffle at the People's Bank of China (PBOC) is closely watched in global financial markets as monetary policy changes and any moves to further liberalize the financial system of the world's second-large economy would have repercussions well beyond China's shores.
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In the long run, Beijing's focus is for the offshore yuan to be subsumed by the onshore yuan as part of its program to liberalize financial markets, but that requires basic convertibility of the latter—a structural reform long-awaited by economists.
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Elected on a populist platform promising broad tax increases on the wealthy and the financial services industry, Hollande ended up governing to the right, backing away from his redistributionist message after a capital flight and recently pursuing reforms to liberalize the labor market.
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Sheeran said in an Instagram post this weekend that he had been informed that his song was being used to promote the pro-life campaign ahead of Ireland's May 25 referenduum on whether to liberalize one of the world's strictest regimes on abortion.
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But the Cuban president also noted, with approval, that the state sector employed 70 percent of the country's work force in 2015, down from 81 percent five years earlier, and the party agreed to expand pilot projects to further liberalize the economy.
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This is in stark contrast to President Obama and Secretary John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE, who insisted that Iran may one day liberalize.
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The move against the PCC casts doubts on whether tough-talking President Rodrigo Duterte will deliver on his pledge to liberalize telecoms, which he has identified as among several sectors controlled by oligarchs with firms offering substandard services to consumers at high prices.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia is throwing an economic coming-out party of sorts this week, hawking its efforts to liberalize its conservative society and diversify its economy in a sweeping overhaul of the way the wealthy Arab kingdom has long operated.
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He wants to liberalize, at least economically and socially, and so demonstrate that Islam, in the nation of its holiest cities, Mecca and Medina, is not a harsh, unbendable rule book based on ancient scripture but is rather compatible with modernity and tolerance.
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In the long run, though, even a hard Brexit need not be disastrous for Britain — any losses it generated could be balanced out by a genuine commitment to radical policy reform at home, coupled with a concerted effort to liberalize trade overseas.
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That may well be the case with proposals from a trio of international bodies that seek to address some of Trump's gripes with the World Trade Organization while providing ways for other countries to liberalize commerce without his signoff, writes Swaha Pattanaik.
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He first gained widespread attention in the early 2000s for his role in closing dozens of reformist newspapers while heading up the revolutionary court during the reformist presidency of Mohammad Khatami, who was despised by Iranian conservative hardliners for trying to liberalize the Islamic Republic.
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Mortazavi first gained widespread attention in the early 2000s for his role in closing a number of reformist newspapers while heading the revolutionary court during the reformist presidency of Mohammad Khatami, who was despised by conservative hardliners for trying to liberalize the Islamic Republic.
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By "opposition", Karroubi meant that Khamenei, head of a Shi'ite theocracy, should not be wielding ultimate power while criticizing the government of elected President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who wants to liberalize an economy dominated by the elite Revolutionary Guards and other state conglomerates.
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Not surprisingly, the U.S. is interested in concessions in the areas where it typically has friction with the EU — phytosanitary standards for food and agriculture and data services, with some U.S. officials believing that an unfettered U.K. would be more willing to liberalize its standards.
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"There was a fear that a court case taken to the Irish courts, or then the European courts, would liberalize abortion in the same way access to contraceptives had been [liberalized]," Mary McAuliffe, a professor of gender studies at University College Dublin, told me.
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Li Shufu, chairman of Geely's listed unit and controlling group, told reporters in Beijing on Thursday he has submitted a policy proposal to "prudently" liberalize mapping rules while respecting national security for consideration during the session of the China People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which advises parliament.
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From January to August 2016, countries in the G20 alone introduced more than 350 trade regulation measures versus 100 to liberalize trade, and 10 times more measures restricting than easing foreign direct investment, according to Stéphane J.G. Girod, a professor at IMD business school in Switzerland.
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The May 19 election is shaping up primarily as a contest between Rouhani, a pragmatist who has improved the Islamic Republic's relations with the West and sought to liberalize Iranian society, and Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline conservative cleric who served in the judiciary for many years.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - The people of Ireland are set to liberalize some of the world's most restrictive abortion laws by a landslide, two exit polls from a referendum showed on Friday, as voters demanded change in what two decades ago was one of Europe's most socially conservative countries.
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Instead of employing new tactics to improve U.S.-China relations by generalizing currency-manipulation policy to all countries, the U.S. should be thinking of how to encourage China to further liberalize its institutions and let markets be the primary force in setting the RMB-dollar exchange rate.
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Marijuana Policy Project spokesperson Mason Tvert told CNN that his organization, one of the heavyweights on the pro-pot side, felt "very hopeful" that Sessions wouldn't interfere as states and localities continued to liberalize their pot laws but also underscored the uncertainty this early into the new administration.
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But restricting Chinese students contravenes American values, deprives universities of a valuable source of funding, and limits one of the best opportunities for the United States to liberalize China—by creating avenues for Chinese students to realize that democracy, rather than dictatorship, is a better fit for their country.
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The CJEU decision has locked in the strategic gear shift Uber has made in Europe in recent years in the face of a series of (at times violent) taxi industry protests — focusing instead on lobbying city and national regulators to liberalize and reform transport rules in its favor.
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We are beginning to see echoes of the old practice of asking friends traveling abroad to bring back electronics, clothes and even books, as we did in the 1980s, when Turkey was yet to liberalize its economy and a pack of Marlboro Reds was considered a generous gift.
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And if we engage them and bring them into the international fold, not only are we going to make friends with them, but they're going to liberalize at home and modernize, democratize, all this kind of stuff, even in the face of years of contradictory evidence and information. Decades.
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Nunes said Mercosur is committed to removing tariffs from 90 percent of its trade with the EU. Resistance by some EU member states, such as Ireland and France, to agricultural imports, has delayed negotiation of the trade pact that seeks to liberalize trade and investment, services and access to public procurement.
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While his early reforms to liberalize the regulation-choked economy drew protests by unions, with the past six months seeing weekly "yellow vest" protests, unemployment is now at a 10-year low, investment at a 12-year high and purchasing power is rising, Philippe said to cheers from ruling party lawmakers.
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In a call with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, Lew called on Bejing to liberalize its investment environment, reduce excess industrial capacity in its metals sector, and establish a new set of official export credit disciplines to "create a level playing field" for U.S. exporters, Treasury said in a statement.
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To me, Burlingame encapsulates one side of the American view of China, one that reappeared in the 1970s and lasted up through the beginning of the Obama administration — the idea, or rather the bet — that China would liberalize and become more like us as long as we facilitated its rise.
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These revitalized talks serve as an opportunity to liberalize energy trade and investment between the three countries, making it easier to build pipelines across borders, while boosting U.S. exports of refined oil products and natural gas, ensuring the continent can enjoy cleaner, more reliable and cheaper energy for years to come.
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Opinion Columnist During the Catholic Church's synod on the family in Rome in 2015, a rough-and-tumble affair in which Pope Francis pushed the assembled bishops to liberalize Catholic teaching on remarriage and divorce, one of the attendees, by the pope's own invitation, was the retired Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels.
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"To me, this is all part of the growing pains of China trying to liberalize its financial markets to become an important player on the world stage, and from a technicality standpoint, they are learning to deal with the various issues that come with that," said Howard Tai, an analyst at Aite Group.
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The bill would remove the state's parental notification requirement for minors seeking abortions; liberalize the state's informed consent law, which currently requires physicians to certify patients' marital status and explain potential emotional consequences of abortion; and remove criminal penalties that make self-induced abortion punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
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On Tuesday (June 5), the government made three major and politically consequential announcements: it lifted the state of emergency imposed shortly after former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned, announced plans to liberalize the economy and declared it was ready to fully comply with and implement the Algiers Agreement that ended Africa's most deadly conflict.
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From November 2013 to May 2016, WikiLeaks published documents describing internal deliberations on two trade pacts: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would liberalize trade between the United States, Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim countries, and the Trade in Services Agreement, an accord between the United States, 21 other countries and the European Union.
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Currently, China is trying to curb capital outflows to support the weakening yuan as regulators keep their eyes on policy changes in the U.S. At the same time, China has said before its inclusion into the International Monetary Fund Special Drawing Rights valuation basket that it wants to gradually liberalize its capital markets, highlighting monetary policy tension, Beddor said.
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"The growing trend to liberalize and promote openness in sex doesn't condone or justify its commercialization," Justice Kim Chang-jong wrote in the court's majority ruling, which found that the 2004 antiprostitution law, under which prostitutes and their clients can be fined and imprisoned for up to a year, did not violate the South Korean Constitution.
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And ever since then—and even before then—the Big Ten and the SEC have stood in symbolic opposition, with the former largely standing for more rigid codes of conduct and the latter pushing to liberalize the rules (never mind that the public rhetoric often belied a sense of hypocrisy—the Big Ten, in particular, was never quite as clean as it portrayed itself to be).
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As a close aide to Mr. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, on both foreign and domestic affairs, Mr. Chernyaev (pronounced churn-YAI-yev) played a central role in his bold attempt to modernize and liberalize the Soviet Union and was with him at a vacation house during the short-lived coup against him in 1991 and when he stepped down at the end of that year.
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