Holding the rotating Council Presidency includes both advantages and
disadvantages for member states; The opportunities include:
Not exact matches
Unshackle Upstate is a
member of the coalition, which argues that the toll hike
for commercial vehicles with three or more axles will put the
state's tucking industry and all the businesses that use trucks to haul goods at a «competitive
disadvantage».
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was a leading
member of the school choice advocacy community, and Donald Trump has called
for a congressional bill that would fund school choice
for disadvantaged youth,
stating that «families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right
for them.»
The Obama administration's proposal to make federal funding
for disadvantaged students contingent on
states» adoption of reading and math standards that prepare students
for college or a career has drawn sharp criticism from groups representing grassroots educators and
state lawmakers, even as some governors and
members of Congress appear open to the idea.
One evident
disadvantage for participants in a composite tax return is that
states often compute the tax
for each
member at the highest marginal tax rate.
While it is no perfect solution either (and there probably is none), the Advocate General's solution of doing exactly the same thing the other way round — offering the action
for damages as consolation
for the party that has previously benefitted from an erroneous transformation of EU law by the
Member State and now pays the price because of horizontal direct effect excluding the application of a norm of national law they had relied on — has at least a somewhat more equilibrated approach towards sharing the burden of advantages and
disadvantages.
«The Government must also rethink changes to legal aid, which are going through the House of Lords today, which could further
disadvantage carers resulting in a nonsensical situation where some family
members can not afford to obtain a permanent secure legal order
for a child, who could otherwise end up in
state care, at a significantly greater cost to the exchequer.»