Heres’s the third in a series of background briefs from Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office on issues that delegates from around the world will grapple with at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December. This brief focuses on reform of the Clean Development Mechanism, which will be negotiated in Copenhagen.
“The CDM is one of three flexible market-based mechanisms [...]
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A Conversation with Sir Christopher Meyer
Sir Christopher Meyer, a member of Fleishman-Hillard’s International Advisory Board and career veteran of the British diplomatic corps (he closed out his career in 2003 as Ambassador to the United States), was here in Washington today to share his views on emerging international trends. We’ve captured some of his thoughts in the following series of [...]
A Miracle
The Global Times, the international newspaper of the Chinese Communist party, editorialized very positively on the U.S. China meetings that just concluded in Washington. In keeping with President Obama’s assertion that the history of the 21st century will be defined by the relationship between the US and China, the Chinese see these talks as a [...]
The Echo Chamber Assesses The White House
If you ever want to get a sense of the latest thinking of the Washington policy wonk echo chamber (not that there’s anything wrong with that), The National Journal regularly goes back to a panel of about 100 prominent Democratic and Republican politicos and asks them about any number of issues.
This time the magazine has [...]
Chinese Food Safety Law Sets High Bar for Food Companies and Communications Professionals
The Food Safety Law of China is scheduled to go into effect on June 1, 2009. For the first time in Chinese legal history, the new Law specifically states that food companies are the first party of responsibility in the food safety chain, unequivocally stipulating that strict compliance with the law is the top priority [...]
We’re not in Kansas anymore, Mr. Prime Minister
Most people wouldn’t associate The Wizard of Oz with economic policy.
But during a lecture at the Scottish Tory Party conference last Friday sponsored by Fleishman-Hillard Edinburgh, former Scottish Secretary of State Lord Michael Forsyth did just that. Applying the popular movie’s storyline to British economic policy, Forsyth interpreted the iconic tornado that sends Dorothy to [...]
How Members of the European Union Parliament Use the Internet
The Internet is generally having a positive effect on the discourse between citizens and Congress, or at least that is what a large majority of congressional staff reporting from the U.S. believe: “79% percent believe the Internet has made it easier for citizens to become involved in public policy; 55% believe it has increased public [...]
The Obama Doctrine
“IT IS BETTER TO BE FEARED THAN LOVED, if you cannot be both.” So said the lovable 16th century political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, known for his full-throated support for the exercise of raw political power.
With the Obama Administration, we’re seeing a test of whether Machiavelli was right. Obama has pretty noticeably departed from Machiavelli’s doctrine [...]
Obama Gets Green Light to Go Abroad
As President Barack Obama embarks today on his second trip abroad within the last few weeks — he’s going to Mexico and meeting with leaders of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago — one might wonder if this is good for him politically. After all, many of his predecessors (I can think of GW Bush [...]
Obama Abroad: An Assessment
Barack Obama’s just-completed overseas tour was much more of a communications program – a political campaign in miniature – than it was a policy-making enterprise. Sure, he hammered out some agreements at the G20 economic summit in London, and there were probably some discussions of addressing the world’s security concerns at the NATO meeting in [...]
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