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...When the discussion officially ended, Bush moved around the room, talking with us individually or in small groups for another hour. I could see that his staff was anxious to whisk him away (Cabinet appointments were being made that week and there were key departments yet to fill). Yet he lingered and continued to ask questions. At one point, he turned to me and said, with what I could only read as complete sincerity, "Jim, I don't understand poor people. I've never lived with poor people or been around poor people much. I don't understand what they...
...Orange forces, however triumphant, know that the unity they've worked so hard to restore is still fragile. Yushchenko had promised Tymoshenko the premiership on the expectation that she would win some 22% of the vote, and hoped to preserve most key Cabinet jobs for his own OUPD. But Tymoshenko's apparent success allows her to insist on appointing all the ministers herself. Yushchenko is known to be unwilling to accept that: he wants to have his own Foreign, Defense and Interior ministers...
...formal process of forming a government begins with constructing a majority coalition. Then the coalition asks the President to nominate the Premier, who in turn forms the Cabinet. Said Tymoshenko to TIME: "Now we have not only to contemplate the Cabinet's first steps, but also watch very carefully how the coalition will be shaping up." This time, comments Nebozhenko, the process will be turned inside out: the President and his Premier may have to make a deal on the cabinet first before building a coalition. Fighting over the Cabinet jobs is where the Oranges are very likely to fall...
...finish first. In this case, though, "makeweights" of the Lytvyn block and the Communist party who is also making it to the Rada will still be insufficient to outbalance the joint Orange forces. Then, Yanukovych will likely be waiting until his Orange rivals break up fighting over the Cabinet positions - and seek a coalition with Yushchenko, who had prudently left this option open as well...
...Last Friday, the Dutch cabinet decided not to hold a referendum on the new Reform Treaty for the European Union (EU). European media outlets criticized the decision as an undemocratic move to push through a decision that would not pass in popular vote. They are probably right. And yet, the Cabinet is acting in the people(s) of Europe’s best interest...