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They may also grow more confident that their skills will be properly deployed in a fast-growing economy, further spreading the prosperity that many fellow citizens have only recently started to enjoy.
Macron delivered this very message earlier this month while addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg , where he declared that “European democracy is our best chance,” and called for a “new European sovereignty” that would protect and provide for the European Union’s citizens.
In his Strasbourg speech, Macron set out a potent agenda: the EU must convince its citizens that it deserves their support, by engaging with them directly and offering a compelling narrative that emphasizes the Union’s unwavering commitment to liberal democracy.
Indeed, for many Baltic citizens, suppressed visions of torture, deportations, and flight – all experiences from our recent history – are once again bursting into our consciousness.
If one nation -- say, Yugoslavia -- is otherwise inclined to abuse its citizens, it will perceive no reciprocal benefit from compliance with an international norm that requires greater respect for human rights.
Third, the EU could foster aggregate action in high-priority areas by implementing schemes to support individual citizens, companies or public entities, access to which would be conditional on national policies fulfilling minimal requirements.
But the capacity of the state to look after the welfare of its citizens has been severely impaired by globalization, because capital can escape taxation much more easily than labor can.
Given this folly, European citizens accurately sense that Europe’s security interests are no longer closely aligned with those of the United States.
So what Trump is doing is not about economics – or at least not about economics as most academics, political leaders, and citizens know it.
Some Romanian officials, including President Traian Basescu, have bandied about the idea of distributing Romanian passports to as many as a million Moldovan citizens, a quarter of the entire population.
Of course, the Moldovan government balks at any attempt to lure away its citizens.
Success in international negotiations will hinge on how parties – and the citizens they represent – consider a few vital equity principles, especially historical responsibility and equal per capita rights.
Ethiopia’s government is not alone in seeking to consolidate political power by restricting what citizens say online.
But citizens are not helpless.
Although the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution to protect online freedoms is not binding, it offers a starting point for ensuring that governments allow citizens to use the Internet as a tool for maximizing political participation.
Whether governments bar citizens from gathering in public, signing petitions, or accessing the Internet and posting on social media makes no difference.
All such measures are designed to strip citizens of their rights.
But French citizens have an ingrained habit of demanding that government solve every problem, no matter how trivial and this is costly too.
Unless and until Europe's leaders shed their confusions, and speak plainly to their citizens about their thinking and their purposes, Europe's economic malaise will likely lead to a dangerous brew of monetary muddle and social unrest.
On both sides of the Atlantic, market economies are failing to deliver for most citizens.
Driving this trend is the sense that globalization has gone too far, and is now squeezing ordinary citizens, while enriching a select few.
If stronger EU-level economic institutions are to work properly, stronger EU-level political institutions will be needed to hold them accountable and give citizens voice.
If governments fail to respond to these basic demands, citizens take to the streets, often destructively.
This summer in Guinea, for example, citizens’ frustration with widespread poverty and weak institutions, memories of ethnic persecution, and distrust of unfamiliar democratic processes fueled violent protests.
This will make it more difficult to implement the deal – brokered by German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier this year – that gives Turkey financial support, and its citizens visa-free travel to the EU, in exchange for its cooperation on containing refugee flows.
But protracted economic crisis has changed their citizens' perspective, with a rising proportion viewing EU membership as more costly than beneficial.
Sovereignty has thus become a particularly seductive concept for citizens of the southern member countries, who have increasingly come to believe that the EU's “rigid" structure has been imposed upon them.
At the root of both beliefs is the fear and uncertainty generated by globalization, with citizens concerned for their security and unsure of their place in the world.
And what should it offer its citizens?
But the additional work done does not necessarily involve only government employees, and citizens can have some voice in how the expenditure is directed.
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