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"It concerns whether the big countries are willing to sacrifice any measure of national sovereignty for the European good," said one influential ECB official.
The so-called Umbrella Agreement puts in place safeguards regarding data transfers for the purpose of law enforcement and addresses long-standing European concerns about the right to privacy.
It is our responsibility to listen to their voices and respond to their concerns.
The only significant demand expressed by Prime Minister David Cameron in his recent letter to the EU concerns internal migration.
Yet, at least for the time being, public concerns and government priorities differ.
Piketty’s theory concerns what economists call the functional distribution of income, or the split between providers of labor and owners of capital.
But the maldistribution that causes so much unease in Latin America concerns the personal distribution of labor income – that is, the split among wage earners.
In a hybrid socialist market economy, it seems, credit-driven growth need not be constrained by concerns about debt sustainability.
Concerns about the MDGs do not stop there.
The first change concerns China’s pattern of economic growth, which so far has been achieved mostly by rapidly increasing factor inputs – labor, capital, and energy.
The escalating US-China trade war is a response to three concerns that American leaders have long articulated: job losses, competition over technology, and a perceived Chinese threat to US national security.
Yes, there are legitimate technical concerns that QE is distorting asset prices, but bursting bubbles simply are not the main risk now.
In any case, with so little confidence in the financial system, and credit constrained by concerns about falling housing prices, the usual transmission channels from the policy rate have been blocked.
The reference point for such an effort should be parallel implementation of the 2002 Arab Peace Plan, which addresses Israel’s security concerns, and a regional disarmament mechanism based on United Nations Security Council Resolution 687, adopted in 1991 to enable the elimination of WMDs from the entire region.
Whatever concerns the opposition has about Iran’s allegiances, the country is undoubtedly part of the Syrian equation; indeed, its involvement is critical to reaching any accord.
Furthermore, the majority did not think democratization would hurt the economy, although there were clear concerns that political instability could arise from China's intervention in Hong Kong affairs.
The left’s concerns about labor and the environment were accompanied by fears about excessive benefits for corporations: protection of the intellectual property of pharmaceutical and other companies, and the mechanisms used to settle disputes between investors and states.
Recovering the Golan Heights and protecting Syria’s vital interests in Lebanon are not only major strategic concerns for Syria’s president; they are also crucial to the regime’s drive for national legitimacy, and to Bashar’s assertion of his own leadership.
The US record is marred by denial and absence of leadership, except when American strategic interests (Kosovo) or a president's domestic political concerns (eventually, Bosnia) become imperiled.
The second change concerns Kim’s successor.
International concerns have been compounded – certainly for the APLN leaders – by the shrillness of Romney’s statements on China and Taiwan, as well as his extraordinary identification of Russia as America’s “number one geopolitical foe.”
Pressing security concerns and the need to ensure domestic and international stability made policymakers more willing to challenge longstanding economic orthodoxy.
Instead, economic and financial issues tend to be discussed in intellectual silos, by specialists who give little mind to security concerns or the interplay between national and international objectives.
What is needed is careful consideration of how best to balance humanitarian imperatives with security concerns, domestic social welfare with international legal obligations, and member countries’ duties to one another with their responsibilities to their own citizens.
Similar concerns will no doubt be raised in the coming French presidential campaign.
These are valid concerns, but the alternatives – half measures or no reform at all – would only make a bad situation worse.
Given concerns about security and the fate of the democratic transition, economic issues were essentially put on hold in both elections.
A third set of lessons concerns international support.
In the past, the Western allies’ participation in NATO and its Nuclear Planning Group accommodated their concerns and prevented them from becoming mere objects of US strategy.
Local governments worry about how far from the coast new residential areas should be built, amplifying concerns about the future for people who are being forced to live with strangers in temporary housing in an unfamiliar area.
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