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But the EU’s failure to devise a cohesive response has had another dire, if less commented-upon, consequence: As Europe’s leaders stumble from one inconclusive summit to another, they have handed the rest of the world an excuse for similar inaction.
Their integrity, however, will not be impugned by a gentle reminder that they, too, are human beings, susceptible to human passions and resentments; that the considerable power they wield tends, as all power does, to reach as far as it can; and that, as a consequence, they have become fully enmeshed in a campaign from which, invoking Montesquieu, they should strive scrupulously to hold themselves at a distance.
As a
consequence
of both the high US tax rate and deferral, US-based MNCs have a strong incentive to keep their foreign earnings abroad.
(That’s a
consequence
of the first law of thermodynamics: energy is always conserved.)
The United Kingdom, for example, has had a harder time than other countries for an obvious reason: it had a real-estate bubble (though of less
consequence
than in Spain), and finance, which was at the epicenter of the crisis, played a more important role in its economy than it does in other countries.
The most harmful
consequence
is the public's loss of trust in the system.
Roughly 18,000 children died daily as a direct or indirect
consequence
of malnutrition.
As a consequence, the borders of this Europe may sometimes be fuzzy; they cannot be determined either by glancing at an atlas or by studying the list of EU member states or the countries (Norway, Switzerland, Iceland) that could join the EU any time.
But the first
consequence
of Putin’s offensive – one employing methods tested in the two Chechen wars and not burdened, to put it mildly, by the precautions observed by Western armed forces – will be to increase, not reduce, the number of civilian casualties.
This expectation is an inevitable
consequence
of Turkey’s geography and history.
The possibility of such an asymmetrical global rebalancing – with China taking the lead and the developed world dragging its feet – could be the key unintended
consequence
of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan.
As a
consequence
of its welfare state and aggressive unions, Germany has had the highest hourly labor costs in the world for most of the last twenty years; only recently has Denmark taken the lead due to a revaluation of the krona.
But the riskiest countries already have been shut out of financial markets, so the possibility of a panic reaction is of limited
consequence.
During the last couple of years, the Franco-German relations have dramatically deteriorated; as a consequence, it has become visible that the revitalisation of this special relationship is the necessary (though not sufficient) condition for the EU to become a relevant player in world politics.
Indeed, I (and others) have argued that growing inequality is one of the reasons for the economic slowdown, and is partly a
consequence
of the global economy’s deep, ongoing structural changes.
Indeed, the debates’ high ratings had the unintended
consequence
of allowing the Socialist party to dominate France’s media landscape for weeks.
It is not simply a
consequence
of abusive Shia or Alawite regimes in specific countries, and it will not suddenly disappear if those regimes do.
The tensions between its increasingly open economy and its still closed political system and institutions (established during the Stalin era in the 1950's) make China the most conflicted nation of
consequence
in the world today.
One might be inclined to interpret this amazing emerging-market performance as a
consequence
of the growth in the amount of real stuff that these economies produced.
Another
consequence
of the freer flow of capital is a greater intertwining of different markets.
This has caught academics off-guard, because they have traditionally treated knowledge as something pursued for its own sake, regardless of cost or
consequence.
One exception is the Czech Republic, where the process of lustration (disqualification for state posts as a
consequence
of previous senior membership in the communist party or secret police) dramatically weakened the communist party organization.
America’s new pragmatism is also the
consequence
of a process of “reverse socialization.”
So the fall of the Berlin Wall less than half a decade later was a
consequence
of these thoughts.
A decision of enormous
consequence
– far greater even than amending a country’s constitution (of course, the United Kingdom lacks a written one) – has been made without any appropriate checks and balances.
A likely
consequence
is that the cost of capital will rise in the next few years, putting pressure on highly leveraged entities, including governments that have grown accustomed to a low interest-rate environment and may not see this shift coming.
The Ukrainian crisis may prove helpful, though that appears less likely now – which may be a good thing to the extent that one unintended
consequence
could be a loan to Ukraine that is larger than it really needs.
In addition to his adventurism in Ukraine, he has injected obstructionism into European politics through his support of populist and euroskeptic parties, escalated the conflict in the Middle East by his military intervention in Syria and, as a consequence, aggravated the refugee crisis.
The
consequence
is that in today’s Europe, democracy can be reaffirmed only by asserting national sovereignty.
The protests are much more about political and economic freedom than about material needs, reflecting a keen awareness that such needs are merely a symptom and
consequence
of the absence of political and economic freedom.
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