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The troika – the IMF, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission – encouraged the Greek government to insert the collective action clauses.
Without collective efforts to combat it, corruption will continue to erode public confidence in institutions and governments, impeding economic, political, and social development.
Surely this involves a collective miscalculation of the longer-term costs.
To avoid turning Greece, Portugal, and Spain into collective “correctional houses,” Hollande reasoned, people need hope beyond the ever-receding horizon of spending cuts and austerity measures.
Collective economic mismanagement would only dent it further and fuel already-rising economic nationalism.
The collective cost of a temporary inflation overrun is dwarfed by that of a premature recession resulting in permanent scars and a political backlash against economic orthodoxy.
There, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government has proposed a law enshrining the collective primacy of the country’s Jews – legislation that destroys in spirit and form what little is left of Israel’s founding commitment to equality under the law.
Arguments within the Japanese government concerning collective defense received greater focus.
The alternative could be a Le Pen victory, and a further step back toward the 1930s, when too many countries turned their back on international cooperation and collective solutions to shared problems.
The commission argues that “top bankers dodged accountability for failings on their watch by claiming ignorance or hiding behind collective decision-making.”
Even in collective tragedies and extreme situations, the writer is searching, through his own vision, strategy, and style, for the destiny of the individual, for the human specificity of weakness and resilience and dreams, for the ambiguities and limits and surprises of individuality caught in the social deadlock.
Death isolates every individual, because there is no such thing as collective dying.
That task must belong to the European Union, the one institution with the collective means, skills, resources, and – potentially – the leadership to relieve NATO and ISAF of burdens for which they are not suited.
Finally, we must recognize that the refugee crisis is a collective international responsibility.
The most effective way of dealing with a newly assertive Russia will be for Europe to issue a collective refusal to accept a bipolar Europe of distinct Russian and EU spheres of influence.
More women in work – particularly in the technology industries that are shaping our collective future – would be good news for all.
Kazakhstan achieved independence at a time when international cooperation, free trade, and collective security were encouraged, and it has long worked to support these principles.
In fact, in a context of weak global governance, regional associations – including security cooperation, shared rules, and collective endeavors – become even more important.
In order to bring some semblance of stability to the Middle East, the US must think beyond the framework nuclear agreement with Iran and develop, with all stakeholders, a collective security regime – an initiative that will require the US to regain the trust of its allies in the region.
The adverse economic effects of non-inclusive growth grow and multiply slowly over time, and will continue to do so in the absence of collective action – usually but not necessarily manifested through government – to shift prevailing distributional patterns.
Bringing together people who disagree or even distrust one another is the first step toward building a foundation for collective action in the future.
But global leaders’ collective resolve has since waned, as they have found themselves increasingly captive to – and battered by – financial markets.
Participating in the collective life of the international community of states implies bearing others in mind and, when necessary, giving up certain prerogatives of sovereignty.
But it is becoming increasingly difficult to determine the difference between purely domestic matters and those that require international collective action.
They empower citizens to cultivate their collective energy and develop their potential, and thus become drivers of their countries’ growth and advancement in the world arena.
In the past, there have been doubts as to whether India would go along with the collective global effort embodied in the Paris agreement.
Our collective challenge is to translate a nice-sounding slogan into reality.
And there are other risks stemming from humanity’s greater collective impact on the planet, and from the growing empowerment of individuals.
Being together in physical space can create a sense of collective capacity.
The Western countries’ collective knowledge is no substitute for a collective wisdom about Libya’s distinct history and rhythms.
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