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Ghana has recently announced free upper-secondary education for all, setting the pace for the continent.
If African governments embrace diversity in the way electricity is generated and distributed, they could provide modern energy to millions of people, while placing the continent at the forefront of a global energy transformation.
The Holocaust began with words, not mass killings We must remember how the poison of anti-Semitism and racism, projected through mass media, and through entire political, cultural and educational systems, led a continent into mass violence and genocide.
As the continent faces the most difficult challenges it has seen in more than a generation, neither Europe nor the UK can afford such a self-defeating distraction.
The Thirty Years War, fought over religion, laid waste to the Continent, killing one-third of Germany's population.
As these cultural connections grow, Africa’s soft power will continue to rise and extend far beyond the continent.
While the idea of a "return" expressed an idealised vision of the Europe of values and common heritage, its concrete expression was the desire to join the process of European integration successfully developed in the Western part of the continent.
Each step toward greater cooperation and unity on the continent is, on its own, an important one.
As long as Africa is full of such dubious men, applying “African solutions to African problems,” as they like to say, will do the continent no good.
We are the moral continent.
Yes, today's EU is a miracle for a continent where two modern totalitarian movements - Communism and Nazism - unleashed rivers of blood.
Outsiders, even admirers, have often wondered how the most globalized country in the world – a continent inhabited by people from every land – can be so irrationally insular on some issues.
To his mind, the country with more neighbors than any other country on the continent should not throw its weight around.
But right-wing populists have stoked fears and misconceptions about the number of people arriving in Europe – and about the effects of migration on our societies – to such an extent that their tactics are fueling political cleavages across the continent.
Unless there is a surprising breakthrough in the Brexit negotiations, which produces a future free-trade regime for both services and goods, a substantial relocation of financial activity to the continent, and to Ireland, will occur over time.
In Europe, the Internet of Everything is emerging as the single most promising way to revive a moribund economy and tackle the continent's stubborn unemployment problem, with companies, cities, and even countries positioning themselves as leaders in innovation, growth, and the creation of jobs.
Projects like these are being replicated across the continent, generating billions of dollars in value in terms of reduced costs, productivity gains, and increased revenues.
On a continent where youth unemployment exceeds 50% in some countries, there should be no problem finding young and eager people able to do these jobs, provided they receive the proper training.
The continent is already the world's largest economic bloc, with a GDP of more than €14 trillion ($15.2
Asia is the world’s most resource-poor continent, and overexploitation of the natural resources that it does possess has created an environmental crisis that is contributing to regional climate change.
And Asia has less fresh water per person than any continent other than Antarctica, and some of the world’s worst water pollution.
And, although aging populations are the rule in Europe, the challenges they pose extend far beyond the continent.
Washington identifies it as such, and welcomed the "new Europe" (which includes large chunks of the "old" communist Eastern Europe) helping to tilt the balance on the continent back in America's favor.
But acknowledging the East Europeans' dilemma is in no way to forgive Chirac's arrogant blow against the unity of the Continent as a whole.
Stock exchanges are being established across the continent.
Given the already high unemployment levels that exist across much of the Continent, and the already heavy pressures on government finances, European voters may be unwilling to accept more adjustments and the hardships they appear to bring, no matter the proposed long-term benefits.
Perhaps the Singapore-based strategist Kishore Mahbubani is correct to write off the West and tell us that the future lies in his own continent.
Felling seven million hectares of trees each year, South America clears more forests than any other continent.
But, if the continent can sustain its recent economic growth, that number will almost surely rise.
The transformation of the old European welfare state started in northern Europe, and it is proceeding to most of the rest of the continent.
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