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According to the directive, every EU citizen has the right to a residence permit for up to five years in any member state, followed by the right to permanent residence.
For it was almost inconceivable that a citizen from a command economy could understand how markets distribute materials among millions of people for thousands of uses untouched by political hands.
Extending the EU’s area of freedom and democracy, peace, stability, and prosperity, especially throughout south-eastern Europe, is in the interest of every European citizen.
For example, public officials can use mobile applications to tag and respond to citizen complaints about the delivery of water and sanitation services, thereby enhancing transparency and accountability.
When people in a country begin to illicitly copy the intellectual achievements of a fellow citizen, IPR becomes a real domestic political issue dividing special interest groups.
When simply taking up the activism of a concerned citizen can land you in jail and fear of surveillance encourages mass passivity, single-issue politics is not a winning strategy.
Given this, governments should devote resources to reducing inequality, regardless of the shifting preferences of the average citizen.
More likely, Americans take these wars lying down because the costs are not experienced by the average citizen.
With the advent of citizen journalism and social media, even in poor countries, public-awareness campaigns are now more affordable than ever.
That is not – and cannot be – the job of every citizen.
The fact is that every head of state, every government, and every citizen has a responsibility to ensure that we achieve the SDGs.
If all else fails, there is always the “helicopter drop,” whereby the central bank prints money and sprays it on the streets to create inflation (more prosaically, it sends a check to every citizen, perhaps more to the poor, who are likelier to spend it).
Instead, they should have incited a desire to make the programs more 'democratic' -- meaning more citizen participation, more citizen control, more concern with the emancipatory potential of the measures, and so forth.
As a former citizen of a country – the Soviet Union – that was morally and politically corrupted by propaganda, I am well aware of the damage that can be done by weaponized “news.”
Meng’s abduction was particularly shocking, because many Chinese trumpeted his 2016 appointment to Interpol’s highest post – which made him the first Chinese citizen to lead a major global institution – as a sign that the country had finally arrived at the top tier of the international order.
In this model, informed and engaged citizens directly set the agenda for their representatives (though not with the Greeks’ narrowly circumscribed definition of who is a citizen).
Every citizen has a right not to be left too far behind.
Such an exercise in renewal would demand that EU institutions be granted real authority to create common fiscal, defense, and energy policies, while at the same time pursuing democratization (along the lines of “one citizen, one vote”).
The internal recession that followed the bailout was deep and long and left the ordinary Mexican citizen with a sharply reduced income facing higher prices for goods and services.
In short, for the average Russian citizen, there is simply more austerity ahead.
“If you believe you’re a citizen of the world,” she said, “you’re a citizen of nowhere.”
I spend more time traveling in other countries than I do within either country that claims me as a citizen.
The support of a multi-millionaire now counts vastly more than that of an ordinary citizen, making a mockery of the principle of “one man, one vote.”
A German citizen who served in World War I, he became a Frenchman when Alsace-Lorraine was restored to France.
A citizen who stays home, rather than voting for the candidate he or she prefers, is merely reinforcing the impact of the fat cat who donates to the opposing candidate’s campaign.
A vigorous new commitment to protecting the rights and freedoms of all citizens and residents and a zero-tolerance policy toward any state collusion with or tolerance of ethnic cleansing, torture, summary detention, citizen surveillance or other insults to democracy, is also necessary.
The fact that the king could sometimes be seen carrying his skis into the metro, like an ordinary citizen, was for me a source of admiration.
In fact, it can be easier to get a work visa for a British citizen than for, say, a Ghanaian with the same skills.
Ethnic Cleansing in the CaribbeanSANTO DOMINGO – I am a native-born citizen of the Dominican Republic.
Even so, one lesson I learned growing up was that any person born in the Dominican Republic is a Dominican citizen.
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