Continent
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The importance of unemployment on the old continent, as against an America which created six million new jobs in the last four years, is sufficient to explain this independent attitude.
Countries on the
continent
that have invested heavily in agricultural development and smallholder farmers have been successful at avoiding famine.
The best news of the year is that, at long last, the
Continent'
s consumers seem to be emerging from their long depression.
Europe's relatively newfound fiscal discipline probably was a blessing in maintaining market confidence, and thus in immunizing the Continent, during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian financial panics.
There might be no free-trade agreement, no passporting rights for British banks seeking to do business in the EU, and not even an agreement on landing rights for British aircraft on the European
continent.
In a time of global uncertainty, a vision of “made in the Americas” prosperity provides a unifying agenda for the
continent.
And maybe there will be a realization on the
Continent
that European unification must move forward more quickly, because the world – and Europe’s neighborhood in particular – has turned out to be not as peaceful as many, above all the Germans, perceived it to be.
Was she prescient about the problems of European monetary union, or did she leave Britain isolated on the fringes of the
continent?
For example, Britain was the dominant world power in the mid-nineteenth century, but it let Prussia create a powerful new German empire in the heart of the European
continent.
The fact that certain "social rights" have made their way into some national constitutions on the
Continent
is no reason to impose them, as the present draft does, on the entire Union.
Now that Trump would feel quite at home almost anywhere on the continent, it is imperative to respond to the pan-Western anti-establishment rage that he represents.
By then a new division of labor between the US and Europe should be worked out, enhancing European responsibility for low-level conflicts in and around the
continent.
One might even add a fifth generation, in which technologies like drones and offensive cyber tactics allow soldiers to remain a
continent
away from their civilian targets.
That is why Europeans should hope that the wave of corporate restructuring and reformation, which many thought would follow inevitably in the wake of the creation of the single market, begins to crest across the
Continent
and change the way businesses are run.
Their loans were designed to perpetuate Africa’s role as a supplier of raw materials, while entangling the
continent
in an inextricable web of debts and dependency on the “aid industry.”
According to the US Energy Department, America’s annual oil imports from Africa will soon reach 770 millions barrels, bringing an estimated $200 billion to the
continent
over the next decade.
Civil war, famine, disease, the legacy of colonialism-all have been advanced as plausible reasons for the
continent'
s grinding poverty and economic backwardness.
Clearly, African countries, assisted by their development partners, need to develop the
continent'
s enormous energy potential as an integral part of their efforts to spur economic growth and reduce poverty.
Indeed, boosting its energy capacity will be critical to unleashing the
continent'
s economic and human potential.
Europe is the
continent
of Michelangelo and Montesquieu, but also of the guillotine and the gas chamber.
Europe’s Migration ParalysisBERLIN – For many centuries, Europe was a
continent
plagued by wars, famines, and poverty.
As European populations age and shrink, the
continent
urgently needs immigration.
In light of the fact that during the past millennium the EU’s members fought countless wars with each other, and that for forty five years a cold war split the
continent
into two hostile blocs, today’s Europe is a success of monumental historical significance.
Although more attention is being given to gender issues, inequality persists in every culture, country, and
continent.
Shards of EuropePRINCETON – As European leaders struggle after another failed summit, they should think hard about what their
continent
– and the world – might look like if they continue to produce unsatisfactory solutions to Europe’s financial and economic problems.
Many in Britain know exactly what they want: to impose controls on the movement of workers from the rest of the EU, thereby protecting the domestic labor market, but without losing access to the single market or passporting rights, which allow British firms to sell their financial services on the
continent.
It is now, when a new political and security order for the European
continent
is beginning to emerge, that we must clearly show our readiness to take our share of responsibility for peace and for the defense of human dignity with all the values that safeguard it.
Latin America’s Irrational ExuberanceMONTEVIDEO – Latin America is coming to the end of an extraordinary cycle of growth that has transformed much of the continent, especially its commodity-exporting countries.
As long as no politicians or parties offer programs that compete for votes in Germany and in Greece, in Finland and in France, and across the European continent, future crises are inevitable.
But the situation on the
continent
is no worse than that of the US in the 1780s.
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