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Thus, all the countries bordering the new member states will be closed to migration from the "New Europe."
Public transport was halted, trains to and from the city were stopped, shops and business closed, and citizens were told to stay home.
Case closed, according to some advocates of pricey investments.
The case for enforcing copyright laws was strengthened by the details that emerged following the arrest in New Zealand last month of Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz), founder of the Web site Megaupload (now closed down by the FBI).
After all, no financial market is either completely open or completely closed forever; the degree of openness at a given moment depends on policy choices.
By keeping bidding on BRI projects closed and opaque, China often massively inflates their value, leaving countries struggling to repay their debts.
Structural reform, however, is a more difficult proposition, with strongly entrenched interests and cultural values militating against change and opening up a partly closed economy.
Brazil’s economy is large and relatively closed, so a competitive real exchange rate is less crucial for growth than it would be in a small, open economy.
To a visitor, this is evident in sleek but empty airports and bullet trains (which will reduce the need for the 45 planned airports), highways to nowhere, thousands of colossal new central and provincial government buildings, ghost towns, and brand-new aluminum smelters kept closed to prevent global prices from plunging.
Another way in will be to join groups – most likely closed groups – that allow free messages among members.
The surge of refugees in Europe, especially Syrian asylum-seekers in 2015, led to an explosion of populist sentiment, with political leaders increasingly calling for borders to be closed.
No matter what criterion one uses, Japan's economy remains the most closed among OECD countries and one of the most closed in the world.
The closed nature of Japanese society and the dearth of ideas are partly attributable to the linguistic barrier.
No such assumption can be made about Japan, where an aging population will intensify the closed and intellectually arid nature of its society.
But this chapter is now being closed, meaning that it is time for the EU to think outside the box, and make an ambitious offer to Britain.
The assumption underlying such nationalist bombast – that a country’s interests are better served by being closed rather than open – is extremely dangerous.
The subtext is that Cameron and Obama have closed ranks in identifying Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and not the ayatollahs, as the primary wildcard.
With thousands of schools closed in an effort to stem the spread of the virus, five million boys and girls have been left without any means of advancing their education.
The case for transforming West Africa’s closed schools into open, safe schools is strong.
Making that difficult passage from closed to open society was a necessary step for the states of Central and Eastern Europe to become candidate members and - perhaps soon - full members of the EU.
In a closed economy, there is a debtor for every creditor, so whatever creditors lose from ultra-low interest rates, debtors should gain.
These gaps between politicians and scientists, and among scientists themselves, must be closed if we are to overcome the risks that we face.
Even if serious dialogue with Uzbekistan is taking place behind closed doors – and the Pentagon’s new initiatives suggest that it is – its low, almost undetectable, profile sends mixed signals that fly in the face of the open, transparent, and collective ethos of America’s big OSCE push.
Indeed, the captain, Gigi Buffon, sang with his eyes closed, as though in prayer.
If bankers know in advance that insolvent banks will be closed, and that lobbying to keep them open will not work, they will take fewer risks and the likelihood of their activities giving rise to a full-blown banking crisis will be reduced.
For example, Argentina is worried about keeping the Chinese market open for soybean oil, after it was closed earlier this year.
This is why I am hopeful that something really significant might come out of the deliberations currently taking place behind closed doors.
A wide-ranging system of transfers now assures that these funds find their way to the North; when some routes are closed off, new ones are opened up.
In its suit, Al Jazeera alleges that its offices were closed, its transmissions and broadcasts were jammed, its license canceled, its local branch liquidated in a compulsory procedure, and its journalists subjected to harassment, arrest, and detention for political reasons.
We now live in a world with 7.5 billion people, and yet the share of people living in absolute poverty has declined rapidly, while the gap between rich and poor countries has steadily closed.
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