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For China, problems are judged according to the country’s own history and from the standpoint of domestic policy – all the more so the closer the problem is to its borders.
Each of the three major conglomerates will be closer to its goal of achieving domination of the seed and pesticide markets – at which point they will be able to dictate food products, prices, and quality worldwide.
But the second message is quite different, and it is a straight continuation of the tradition of Franco-German support for closer political integration.
In addition they call for an action plan for closer integration in interior ministry and judicial affairs.
While debate about Piketty’s work has focused largely on the advanced economies, this fundamental concept fits China’s recent experience, and thus merits closer examination.
As he moves closer to solidifying the Democratic Party’s position in US politics, Israel will continue to construct settlements and become increasingly isolated.
In the modern, more productive parts of the economy, productivity (while typically still low) is much closer to what we observe in the advanced countries.
But on closer inspection, it turns out that this was largely due to the economic performance of the last two decades.
The closer to zero they fall, the more problematic monetary policy becomes.
Almost seven decades of closer European integration and the absence of war have been made possible by the maintenance of social peace.
In this context, the Central Asian republics are already hedging against Putin’s irredentist ambitions, by pursuing closer ties with the EU and China.
China is already closer to ASEAN and a key player with respect to Myanmar, North Korea, and other sticky issues.
European plans for a Common Foreign and Security Policy and for closer defense cooperation seemed brutally discredited.
Creating a closer link between benefits and past contributions for workers who have moved from one country to another will be essential to the long-term integrity of the common labor market.
But we could have gone a step further and paid closer attention to the areas where we could achieve the most good.
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So it is doubtful that closer economic-policy coordination will prevent new bubbles from emerging.
In addition, the Egyptian military gave a $1 billion loan to the government, and another $1 billion was received through grants from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, bringing the loss of reserves since December 2010 closer to $22 billion.
In Europe’s peripheral economies, ten-year yields are edging closer to 1%, as the European Central Bank pursues a €1.1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) quantitative-easing program.
Haircuts would contain this risk by encouraging closer alignment of each country’s interest-rate spread with its creditworthiness – the essential tool by which markets impose discipline on debtors.
Similarly, Oman, dominated by Ibhadis and Sunnis, has a closer relationship with Iran, with which it shares control of the vital oil-shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, than it does with Saudi Arabia.
In Asia, however, Japan’s leaders are not waiting for the Seoul summit to take a closer look at South Korea.
The EU, now confronting a wave of populism and Euro-skepticism, could revive its sense of purpose by committing itself to closer transatlantic cooperation and coordination on trade, to be carried out by the European Commission.
While DiEM25 advocates a democratic union, we certainly reject both the inevitability and the desirability of “ever closer union.”
So if the Union wants to get closer to citizens it must undertake a galvanizing initiative: the writing of the Union's principal law.
As technology continues to progress, with robotization becoming more accessible, companies that once relied on cheap labor and manufacturing exports increasingly need to produce goods and services closer to domestic consumers in open and globally competitive markets.
Though support for Georgia’s continued pursuit of closer ties with the EU remains much higher, at 68%, Georgian Europhiles are alarmed by the shift.
In terms of football at least, the Hispanic community’s influence has brought the United States closer to Europe (though not, of course, in its team’s performance on the pitch).
That was once an attractive proposition for countries like the Soviet Union, which was closer to the world of George Orwell’s own dystopian novel 1984.
But a closer look reveals that that message had no substance; indeed, it was barely coherent.
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