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But, since Hamas will not simply disappear – nor will Hezbollah – so the key point is to defend Israel and its citizens as they pursue their normal lives.
Clearly specified fiduciary responsibilities and governance would help to ensure that publicly held assets were managed to maximize long-term risk-adjusted returns, with the state and citizens as beneficiaries and the market as the arbiter of efficiency and innovation.
This process can be visualized as a champagne coupe, with a broad, shallow bowl mounted on a long, thin stem: an ever-slimmer base of young people supports an ever-increasing number of senior citizens, placing social-security systems under growing strain as the ratio of pensioners to the working-age population rises.
The statue of General Lee on his horse has been there since 1924, a time when the lynching of black citizens was not a rarity.
Around the world, citizens are demanding that their governments listen to them about environmental issues and put their needs and priorities first.
This crisis – and others like it – provides an opportunity for citizens to take control and deploy innovative solutions that might inspire others.
Chile’s government set a precedent in the region by meticulously mapping citizens’ priorities on the environment and climate.
This poll, along with those from Chile and Costa Rica, shows that citizens understand that climate change will affect them.
For that reason alone, it is crucial that governments make their citizens’ concerns the top priority.
Economic development must be accompanied by respect for ordinary citizens.
And the program he envisages offers a viable opportunity – the best in recent memory – to reform France’s economy in ways that will foster innovation-led growth while offering better social protection and education to French citizens.
The Questions of EuropeIn the weeks since France and the Netherlands rejected the European Union’s proposed Constitutional Treaty, the EU’s leaders have been busy pointing fingers at each other or blaming French and Dutch citizens for misunderstanding the question they were asked.
To be sure, French and Dutch citizens did not respond to the question that they were supposed to answer.
Only a new European debate that embodies the common action of European citizens and institutions can combat “alter-Europeanism” effectively.
Seventy years ago, Japan had been reduced to ashes, and each and every month, citizens of the United States sent and brought gifts like milk for our children, warm sweaters, and even goats.
Swaraj has developed a reputation for responding on Twitter to citizens’ appeals for the foreign ministry’s services.
Just 32% of citizens believe that “things are going in the right direction” for the EU, whereas 42% think the bloc is on the wrong path.
The reason is simple: Americans’ longstanding suspicion of “big government” morphed into a kind of political self-hatred, with policymakers and citizens alike led to believe that government is at its best when it does not govern.
Most Irish citizens would also reject the notion that their country has been austerity’s model patient.
Debt, however, is a burden imposed by current citizens on future generations.
Some governments are afraid to allow their citizens easy access to information.
For example, China is exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) and big data can be used to monitor everything from social media to credit-card spending, and it plans to assign all citizens a social-reliability rating to weed out potential troublemakers.
Higher leverage allows bankers to earn more money, but it can easily become excessive for shareholders – because it makes the banks more vulnerable to collapse – and it is terrible for taxpayers and all citizens, as they face massive downside costs.
In China, collective decisions are not legitimated by citizens’ explicit consent, and people generally have fewer enforceable rights against the government, particularly when it comes to surveillance.
Moreover, in this case, the Egyptian army appears far more interested in protecting its enormous economic interests than it is in securing the benefits of a civilian government responsive to its citizens.
Politicians and economists have been stoking fears among German citizens about the massive costs of the influx of refugees, which has intensified the struggle over high and rising levels of inequality in wealth and wages.
These gifts were bought with money taken unjustly from ordinary Ukrainians, so ordinary citizens have a right to them.
Its citizens, who live on top of the world’s largest oil reserves, are literally starving and dying for lack of food and medicine.
And then there is Japan, a member of the six-party talks and a steadfast US ally, which was angered by the recent delisting of North Korea, because the North has yet to satisfy fully Japanese inquiries into the abduction of its citizens by North Korean agents decades ago.
If she speaks out for the Rohingya, her appeal among Buddhists, the vast majority of Myanmar’s citizens, may be dented enough to preserve the army’s grip on power.
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