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If not, the ECB will stop supporting the Greek banking system, and the government will run out of money to service foreign debts and, more dramatically, to pay Greek citizens their pensions and wages.
As a result, their citizens will enjoy quick access to new medicines, and their researchers will find it easier to participate in global clinical research, a boon to domestic industries.
But, if implemented correctly, sound regulation can strengthen countries’ growth capacity, while protecting citizens and improving their long-term living standards.
The Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, whose position seems similar to that of the million Arabs who are Israeli citizens, eventually revolted against the dominant Protestants, with decades of violence resulting.
But in most countries today, even those with few Christian citizens, the festival offers the chance for a holiday and a binge.
To strengthen Russia’s position, Nicholas I looked to the Orthodox populations in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, with his naval minister, Alexander Menshikov, demanding in 1853 that Russia be named an official protector of the Ottoman Empire’s 12 million Orthodox citizens.
The declaration calls for girls to be given access to quality education and age-appropriate health services and information; be counted as equal citizens; have meaningful economic opportunities; and benefit from laws that protect them, rather than discriminate against them.
Cost-benefit analysis shows that freer trade is the single most powerful way to help the world’s poorest citizens.
In any case, Russia’s veto in the Security Council is a tacit admission of guilt, opening the door for the Netherlands – which lost the most citizens in the attack – to push for additional sanctions.
Democracy is about normal citizens electing normal men and women to lead them for a limited period according to established rules.
To ensure the future prosperity of the Middle East, its governments and citizens must ask themselves if new technologies are being designed and adapted to meet real social needs, or if they are simply ushering in change for its own sake.
For starters, focus should be placed on systems rather than on any individual technology; only by observing how divergent technological, social, and economic forces interact with one another can any country’s leaders and citizens determine and predict how business, society, and economics may change.
Rather than pursuing their own interests, foreign-funded organizations have largely based their actions on concern for Russia and its citizens, and on the belief that what is good for Russia is good for the rest of the world.
Such organizations have worked with Russian institutions and ministries to smooth the country’s post-Soviet transition, responding to needs that Russia’s citizens and leadership have defined.
By considering safety, economics, and aesthetics, the right approach for a particular area can be developed – and local citizens, businesses, and the environment can be defended.
With almost daily terrorist attacks, ordinary citizens victimized by shell and gunfire or misconceived bombing, the abuses of Iraqi prisoners, and the hostility of Iraq's Shiites - on whom the US had pinned high hopes for the peace process - American policy is in jeopardy of failure.
With no institutions left to ensure a peaceful political transition in these countries, violent groups had an advantage over ordinary citizens, and a crude fight for power ensued.
The lessons from any trial of Milosevic should be taught to Serbia's citizens by Serbian judges, within a normative system that most Serbs accept as legitimate.
In France, too, citizens have no illusions.
More than 80% of French citizens voted in the presidential election.
Watching on their televisions the solemn, dignified, peaceful, and transparent transfer of power from the president they had defeated to the president they had elected, French citizens could only feel good about themselves and privileged to live in a democratic state.
The appeal of a UBI is rooted in three key features: it provides a basic social “floor” to all citizens; it lets people choose how to use that support; and it could help to streamline the bureaucracy on which many social-support programs depend.
A UBI would also be totally “portable,” thereby helping citizens who change jobs frequently, cannot depend on a long-term employer for social insurance, or are self-employed.
The best response to intolerant extremism is to cultivate an open and pluralistic society that treats all those who live within its borders as full citizens.
In particular, they need to establish a strong reputation as good corporate citizens, in addition to making a positive economic contribution to their host countries.
If I had suggested to my superiors at that time that the UN would one day observe and even run elections in sovereign states, conduct intrusive inspections for weapons of mass destruction, impose comprehensive sanctions on the entire import-export trade of a member state, or set up international criminal tribunals and coerce governments into handing over their citizens to be tried by foreigners under international law, they would have told me that I did not understand what the UN was all about.
From 2001 when Thaksin first became prime minister, to 2007 under military rule, Thailand’s corruption ranking plunged from an already low 61 to 84, which puts the country in the same league as Gabon and Swaziland, two countries notorious for violent and corrupt leaders who routinely trample on their citizens’ rights.
For many Western citizens, entities such as the EU, no less than the rise of major emerging economies such as China and India, are perceived as agents of this decline, rather than as a source of leverage to influence global power shifts and react in accordance with its values and interests.
First and foremost, it must be made clear to millions of Europe’s citizens where the real power within the EU lies: not in Brussels and Strasbourg, but in the hands of national governments.
In many organizations and firms, EU citizens comprise more than 40% of employees.
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