Public opinion and therefore, politicians alike in the US and Europe have an increasingly negative view of the TTIP, the free trade agreement being negotiated between The United States and the European union, while the Canada-UE FTA was on the brink of failure when a Belgian provincial parliament refused to ratify it unless it received reassurances on some key issues such as private arbitration courts which eventually were given, thereby enabling its signature[2].
However, the fear of globalisation is no longer confined to it: during the last US presidential election, all the main candidates, Trump, Clinton and Sanders campaigned against globalisation. In the Brexit referendum vote, the resentment towards European immigrants was more of a factor than a rejection of the EU as such.
Next in line now is France, where free market was never a popular theme. Such trends can indeed be seen all across Europe.
The reason why the anti-globalisation trend is picking up in the West is that very different forces are merging in a de facto coalition. On the one hand, one finds old opponents of globalisation who always considered it a bad thing: blue collar workers and the political parties representing them who fear it is all about transferring jobs from their countries to emerging countries where salaries and labour laws are less protective and therefore perceived as unfair competition.
Other long-standing opponents include many left-leaning intellectuals, especially in France, who consider globalisation as a threat to cultural diversity, i. But what really changed the paradigm is that these opponents have now been joined by mainstream figures and parties as was obvious in the Brexit vote, the US presidential election and the ongoing French presidential election campaign. These newcomers have added their voices to the anti-globalisation choir for opportunistic reasons because they have sensed which the wind is blowing and are desperately trying to retain their voters.
But there is more to it than this: the feeling is that the Reagan-Thatcher drive towards deregulation has gone too far, has been damaging the social fabric and created widening poverty pockets.
In the past 30 years, the difference of salaries between the bottom and the top of the ladder has increased from to or more and the social acceptance of this widening gap at a time when the economy is barely recovering from the crisis is just not there.
By contrast, in India, where globalisation has for two decades been synonymous with outsourcing from Western companies and massive inflow of FDI foreign direct investments , the word does not carry a negative connotation, far from it. As Major League Soccer continued to evolve and energize, the debate centered around when enough would be enough. Over the past decade and a half, the league has enjoyed an unprecedented period of expansion that, just a few years prior, looked almost impossible.
That expansion brought more eyeballs as fans began to identify with their local clubs. That expansion brought international relevance as the league continued to take strides towards competing with its peers. And, perhaps most importantly, that expansion brought money. Lots of it. On Tuesday, that expansion period concluded, for a while at least. The league's 30th team will settle in Charlotte, becoming the 20th club since to join MLS and the 14th new team to join the league since Two of those teams, Inter Miami and Nashville, will begin play in Charlotte will then join Austin in before St.
Louis and Sacramento will kickstart in Garber had previously left the door open for the league to reach 32 teams, and it was easy to see why. Part of the reason that fee was so high was simply market value. The league has grown rapidly over the last few years, and franchise values are indicating that. The other reason? There were plenty of competitors for this slot, with Phoenix, Las Vegas, Indianapolis and Raleigh all listed among the hopefuls and, at some point, someone needed to win out.
Those cities had a head start, as they lobbied MLS for years while Tepper's group really entered the picture just over a year ago. I was very much afraid that there would only be 30 teams here and I thought that Charlotte was an ideal place for MLS. When you talk about the last two entries, they were in this stage three years.
This hasn't been a three-year process. This was 20 months ago or 18 months ago coming in here and saying what we're going to do and then trying to do it. With his removal, king Salman is the only remaining obstacle on his way to the throne. It has never happened before, but it is exactly what took place in Qatar in June , when Shaikh Hamad ceded the throne to his son Tamim, thereby preventing a challenge from other powerful princes. It might very well be the beginning of a reign lasting 40 or 50 years while the previous kings have ruled for a decade or thereabouts.
Given the ambitions already displayed by Mohammed bin Salman, it might indeed change significantly the face of the Middle East. He has also, in coordination with his mentor, the UAE crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed, led the blockade of Qatar since 5 June [3] by several Arab countries. On 22 nd June, this group has given a 10 day ultimatum to Doha to comply with 13 demands, ranging from withdrawing the Qatari ambassador from Tehran to shutting the Aljazeera satellite TV channel to normalize relations.
In fact, for Qatar to accept the Saudi demands would have the effect of making its foreign policy subservient to Saudi Arabia, which it cannot accept. This is why Kuwait and Oman, who believe they will be the next targets on the Saudi list, refused to be part of the sanctions against Qatar. Kuwait, in fact, has embarked on a so far ineffective mediation which, surprisingly, has not been rejected outright by the Saudis.
But the Pentagon and the State Department, who view Qatar as an important asset in the region 10, US troops are stationed in the emirate and are key in the fight against the Islamic State clearly differ.
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