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Many have the impression that the continent is entering what the political scientist Colin Crouch has called a “post-democratic” era.
Passionate grassroots protest and surging populist parties across the continent are the result.
The priority for Africa and the international community must be to ensure that the continent weathers the global financial storm, preserves the significant achievements of the past decade, and continues to make decisive progress in combating poverty.
Economic integration has advanced so far that a return to the national rivalries that twice led the continent into suicidal warfare is unthinkable.
Some African countries are comparatively stable and prosperous, and the Continent possesses a youthful population that will soon top one billion people, abundant mineral reserves, and an inherent dynamism.
Such programs must recognize and tackle the acute challenges the continent faces.
Indeed, growth rates vary widely across the continent, and not all Africans are benefiting.
Beyond its massive natural-resource endowments, the continent has a favorable demographic profile (its rapidly growing population means that it will soon have the world’s largest workforce) and high urbanization rates.
My numerous meetings with African leaders and visits to dozens of countries across the continent have convinced me that Africa is committed to industrialization.
And in Europe, the crypts of nationalism have been opened; in time, they will once again release their demons upon the continent – and the world.
Central Europeans must understand that moving to Europe’s periphery will harm their own vital interests, by undermining their ability to influence the future of the continent.
Counting Africa’s Invisible WorkersYAMOUSSOUKRO – The billions of dollars in aid delivered to Africa annually may do the continent much good, but it cannot deliver a solution to poverty.
That should be a boon for economies across the continent.
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa reports that, though the continent boasts 60% of the world’s uncultivated land, it spends $60 billion per year on food imports.
As a result, long-term adversaries like France and Germany were reconciled within a region-wide project – first a coal and steel community, which expanded to become the European Economic Community and, ultimately, the European Union – that integrated the continent politically and economically to such an extent that violent conflict was rendered unthinkable.
In 1990, at the White House, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev unexpectedly suggested that NATO membership for a reunified Germany would stabilize the continent.
A graying continent needs dynamic young workers to do jobs that locals spurn (or for which they lack the skills), pay for and care for the old, start businesses, and pursue spark new ideas that boost economic growth.
They must demonstrate their efficiency, capacity to innovate, and ability to invigorate the continent with renewed dynamism and drive.
Moreover, it is clear that Africa is the soccer continent of the future, whereas Latin America is the continent of the past.
As a result of Germany’s decision, its annual carbon emissions are now expected to rise by as much as 10% – at a time when European Union emissions are rising as the continent shakes off the effects of the financial crisis.
Merkel’s Next CrisisBERLIN – With Europe bogged down by the financial crisis and its national governments failing or being voted out of office across the continent, Germany has looked like an island of prosperity and stability.
Having visited every South American country in my tenure as Defense Minister, I am convinced that, the most effective deterrent on the continent is cooperation.
Asked during an interview in September 2007 whether European governments should liberalize their countries’ labor codes, former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan responded that Europe’s labor-protection laws significantly inhibited economic performance and resulted in chronically high unemployment across the continent.
Bernie Sanders’s “political revolution” in the US, Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the UK’s Labour Party, DiEM25 (the Democracy in Europe Movement) on the continent: these are the harbingers of an international progressive movement that can define the intellectual terrain upon which democratic politics must build.
And the European idea has become a focus of political opposition across the continent.
Europe is seen as akin to a medieval fortress, with the countries of the continent either inside its walls and safe or outside, isolated and vulnerable.
Being inside Europe is thought to require full membership in the continent's two most important organizations, the EU and NATO.
Will Europe rise to the occasion and seize the opportunity created by America’s daring and exhilarating choice to prove to itself and to the world that the old continent can exist as a power and a united actor?
In 2012 alone, the continent experienced 99 extreme weather events, which is double the long-term average.
The continent also seems poised to gut the important “one-stop shop” principle, which would have allowed companies to deal with the data protection authority in the country where they have their main European base.
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