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Continent in sentence

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If countries like Poland, the Czech Republic and even tiny Slovenia start to feel that they could survive as independent nations in a peaceful Eurasian continent why should they subsume themselves in a multinational superstate?
This year alone, the world has faced unprecedented floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts on virtually every continent.
But what about Africa, the forgotten continent that has been conspicuously absent from Obama’s hectic agenda?
A fortnight before Obama’s Cairo speech, a delegation of the United Nations Security Council visited four African countries to express concern about the resurgence of unconstitutional change on the continent.
For as it does, China is using its colossal financial firepower to expand its strategic position on the continent, without linking aid and investment to pesky demands for good governance.
It is also undermining the opportunity to lay the basis for true democratic reform throughout the continent.
Centrifugal forces in the EU are stronger today than ever before, not only across the English Channel, but throughout the continent.
Given Africa’s still-low ICT penetration rate – the continent is one of the world’s only remaining regions that are far from saturation – there is plenty of room for rapid growth in this area.
We should deploy our aid, diplomacy, and peace-keeping capacity to support sustainable development, good governance, and regional collaboration on the continent.
This promoted and consolidated regime change without the use of weapons, thereby stabilizing the European continent.
If we cannot survive as hunter-gatherers in Africa, the continent where our species evolved, how did humans achieve such immense success relative to other animals and spread to nearly all of the earth’s major ecosystems?
By 1980, black Africans had taken over governance in every country on the continent except South Africa.
Europe needs structural reforms, but such reforms alone will not end the Continent's malaise, and some measures - those that weaken employment protection or the social safety net - may come at a high price, especially for people at the bottom.
But the continent still has a long way to go.
Without them, the continent is more likely to experience rising unemployment, widening inequality, social disorder, and, ultimately, conflict and chaos.
To be Western or Westernized, above all, is a mindset which does not coincide with any continent, nor with any specific nation or religion.
As of October, the continent has an operational European Stability Mechanism to purchase new Italian and Spanish government bonds if investors go on strike.
Regardless of whether the UK ultimately separates politically from the continent, the coming year will mark a turning point for Europe.
Paradoxically, given the initial Christian origins of anti-Semitism in Europe, the process of “dechristianization” on the Continent has played against Israel.
Eventually they will lead to sound political institutions across the Continent, even in the postcommunist states that are lining up to join the Union.
With dedicated support from governments, industry, civil society, and multilateral agencies, decentralized renewables can do more than illuminate a continent; they can also put it to work.
The growing strength of euroskeptic forces in many EU member states has raised the same issue on the continent, where many believe that the goal of a political union might overburden member states’ citizens and should be abandoned.
This challenge is most striking on trans-boundary rivers in Asia, where China has established a hydro-supremacy unparalleled on any continent by annexing the starting places of major international rivers – the Tibetan plateau and Xinjiang – and working to reengineer cross-border flows through dams, reservoirs, barrages, irrigation networks, and other structures.
Asia, the world’s driest continent in terms of per capita freshwater availability, needs a rules-based system to manage water stress, maintain rapid economic growth, and ensure environmental sustainability.
Anyone who lives within the European continent cannot – indeed, must not – be considered a stranger to its Union.
Morocco already provides expertise in finance, telecoms, energy, agriculture, and food security across the continent; indeed, it is now Africa’s second-largest investor, after South Africa.
In a new book, Confront and Conceal, David Sanger describes what he calls an “Obama Doctrine” (though he faults the president for not communicating it more clearly): a lighter military footprint, combined with a willingness to use force unilaterally when American security interests are directly involved; reliance on coalitions to deal with global problems that do not directly threaten US security; and “a rebalancing away from the Middle East quagmires toward the continent of greatest promise in the future – Asia.”
These economic problems have led to the emergence of Euroskeptic nationalist parties and movements across the continent.
They must be built with the knowledge that no fence, wall, or even an ocean or a continent can truly divide us from the problems of others.
Europe's lumpen outsiders are becoming insiders as the Continent's political pendulum swings to the right.
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