| Reading the Government's plans to liberalise the licensing laws could be enough to make anybody turn to the bottle. |
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| He wanted to liberalise the Soviet economy without corresponding political reform. |
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| The Government approved changes to currency legislation to further liberalise capital outflows. |
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| The EU has a well-tried formula for helping to reform and liberalise economies from the former Soviet block. |
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| To oversimplify, countries should liberalise unilaterally to enhance their economic welfare. |
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| The World Trade Organisation is put forward as a solution in order to liberalise agriculture. |
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| This will further liberalise trade in goods and services, and provide greater economic opportunities in the region. |
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| Africa has shared in this phenomenon, and has seen the birth of an obligation, born of popular demands, to liberalise political life. |
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| The most important task is to liberalise the road haulage sector by changing its very characteristics. |
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| Brussels might relent and push Athens to liberalise other markets as a way to achieve the same end. |
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| The Commission also proposes three alternative scenarios to liberalise international regular services, currently subject to authorisation. |
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| The latter move could liberalise a host of industries from shipping to finance. It is now America's turn to be the laggard. |
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| Considerable efforts are needed to liberalise the market for postal services. |
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| However, the actual lack of compliance with the law is, in itself, not a sufficient argument to liberalise the law. |
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| This was without reckoning with the Commission and the governments' firm desire to liberalise and then to privatise all of our public services. |
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| We will, for example, liberalise the student number controls that are imposed upon each institution. |
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| In particular, the return from exile of political opponents was a clear signal of the new regime's will to liberalise and democratise. |
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| The Lithuanian government's efforts to liberalise its capital markets have met with success in some areas. |
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| Of late we have heard from Judi Dench, Mike Leigh, Kathy Burke and good old Sting about the allegedly pressing need to liberalise the drug laws. |
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| The other is a draft law to liberalise the economy, unveiled on December 10th by Emmanuel Macron, the economy minister. |
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| He plans to liberalise the 35-hour week by exonerating all overtime from payroll charges and income tax. |
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| We are examining directives on rail, air transport, and on nautical and technical services next week, all aiming to liberalise these sectors. |
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| In the same manner, international organisations ask national authorities to first liberalise their operations by terminating monopolies before privatising them. |
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| It is simply not the case that the workers in our regions and constituencies are forever waiting with bated breath for us to liberalise previously protected sectors. |
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| Pitroda further underscored the need to liberalise India's languishing education sector. |
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| Singapore's prime minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged countries in southeast Asia to fully liberalise air travel. |
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| Under the Gandhis, Congress became a party of thieves and sycophants, though in a brief moment of national economic desperation after 1991 it started to liberalise the economy. |
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| The only aim of this political and media stage show is to make people forget about the u-turns performed by the PSE which, together with Mr Jospin, helped liberalise the Post Office, EDF and France Télécom. |
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| Neither do I believe that it is sensible to indulge in a kind of yo-yo' system: first we liberalise and deregulate and then we intervene once again. |
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| The Court seized this opportunity to dismiss the widely held view that a technical rule whose purpose or effect was to liberalise trade did not need to be notified. |
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| Market force The plot thins Quiet time ReprintsPlaying with blocksThe second concern, perhaps even more important, is that regionalism will impede efforts to liberalise trade worldwide. |
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| Regionalism refers to the reaction by governments to liberalise or facilitate trade on a regional basis, sometimes through free trade areas or customs unions. |
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| I am firmly convinced that the best way of halting migration flows is to create prosperity in the countries of origin, to liberalise world trade and to dismantle protectionism. |
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| The absence of single market framework for this business is anachronistic, particularly when one considers parallel steps taken to liberalise underlying commodity and energy markets. |
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| French reforms are parcelled out between Mr Macron, who is already pushing through a law to liberalise product markets, and François Rebsamen, the labour minister. |
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| The talks between Athens and its creditors have centred on the readiness of the Tsipras government – a coalition of radical leftwingers and populist rightwingers – to liberalise the economy. |
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| Governments can also liberalise previously highly regulated sectors, such as utilities, to increase efficiency and reduce prices to the benefit of industrial and household users of these services. |
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| In a number of sectors of the euro area economy there have been ongoing efforts to liberalise markets in order to ensure that firms are operating on a commercial basis and in a competitive environment. |
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| The future of the European economy depends on the convergence of the common agricultural policy with the WTO in order to liberalise trade in our highly competitive areas. |
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| The IMF status reform adopted at this time essentially consisted in eliminating the reference to the Gold standard, to introduce floating exchange rates and completely liberalise capital movements. |
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| So we set up the mechanisms we needed to pass a series of bold laws, in particular to curb corruption, cut through bureaucracy, revamp education, overhaul the police force and liberalise the economy. |
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| South Korea today benefits from healthy public finances, major investment in research and development and efforts to liberalise the economy, as well as recent political changes designed to improve transparency. |
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| This is all the more true in the case of the new Member States, where there is often a need to implement instruments that enable people to move house for work-related reasons, to liberalise the housing market, etc. |
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| Indeed, many countries rely heavily on exporting agricultural products and seek to liberalise trade. |
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| A WARWICKSHIRE Euro-MP has assured county councillors they should not worry about plans to liberalise international trading. |
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| John Pratt, managing partner at Pinsent Curtis Biddle, said the ruling announced in Luxembourg would not affect proposals to liberalise UK law. |
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| It emerges the pair had been long-time penfriends, although attempts by Kim to encourage Ms Hart to liberalise her views had been unsuccessful. |
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| To minimise the negative consequences of Switzerland's isolation from the rest of Europe, Bern and Brussels signed seven bilateral agreements to further liberalise trade ties. |
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| Whichever view you take, it could be disastrous to liberalise the drug laws in this country without corresponding measures taking place everywhere else in the European Union. |
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| It made Sri Lanka the first South Asian country to liberalise its economy. |
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| This lacuna has been addressed by the recently passed Directive on services in the internal market which aims to liberalise the cross border provision of services. |
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