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Simply put, the idea of European integration transformed our continent.
Unless all Europeans remain devoted to integration and the creation of an open Europe, the Continent's dark past may once again become its future.
The heart of this miracle is that it benefits all - Europe's citizens, its states, the whole continent, and the world.
This is why, having regained their democratic regimes, Central and Eastern European countries unequivocally voted to join the continent's integration process.
But lack of progress in such countries threatens to make Europe a continent divided: half a fortress of the rich, the other a volatile cauldron of the poor.
By the 1890’s, Germany was the strongest power on the continent.
Chronic sluggish growth is insufficient to create opportunities for the continent's masses of unemployed and underemployed young people.
But, given limited interregional transfers and labor mobility, this means that the continent has far less ability to absorb disparate shocks through the operation of so-called automatic stabilizers.
By recognizing that, and implementing the following series of mutually reinforcing policies, the continent can move beyond its current torpor.
These averages are depressing enough, but some parts of the continent are in far worse shape.
A smart strategy would avoid involvement of ground forces in major wars on the Asian continent.
Latin America’s Military FactorBUENOS AIRES – In 2009, Latin America scored an unrecognized achievement: the global economic crisis did not affect the continent as dramatically as it did other regions.
A British exit – or Brexit – would cause severe damage to the entire continent.
In a continent of loud-mouthed leaders, Patricio Aylwin, who led Chile from dictatorship to democracy in 1990, was an oddity: a soft-spoken professor whose great love was the study of the more abstruse aspects of administrative law.
On the other side of the debate, Europe's desperate reformers see no way to trim, roll back or blow up the Continent's obsessive bureaucracies and consensual politicians.
Unlike in the English-speaking world, liberalism has never been really popular on the European continent, and the conservatives have always appealed to the patriotic and religious feelings of their supporters.
In this light, Haider may not be a historical leftover somehow unearthed in the mountains and valleys of Carinthia, but an augury of the future of the right across the European continent.
In Germany’s view, European military intervention should be limited to the continent, and should not include combat operations.
But it must be resisted, because domestic peace depends on mutual respect for cultural plurality, because Europe's changing demographic profile demands more open borders, not a gated continent, and because the new right's inherent chauvinism is irreconcilable with the EU's survival and success.
Though the continent is responsible for only 4% of greenhouse-gas emissions, it is suffering more than any other continent from climate change, as rising temperatures, shifting seasons, and proliferating droughts deplete biodiversity, destroy ecosystems, and undermine security and stability.
This jeopardizes not only the tremendous economic progress that the continent has made in recent years, but also the basic rights of tens of millions of Africans.
Last October, Yar’Adua joined South Africa and Libya in opposing US plans to deploy AFRICOM, its new African regional military command, on the continent.
The continent is home to nine of the world’s ten most polluted countries, according to Yale University’s 2014 Air Quality Ranking.
Africa’s Stake in the Climate-Change DebateMAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE – Across Africa, there are growing concerns, which the three of us share, that the continent is being marginalized in the major debates leading up to the COP15 climate-change summit in Copenhagen this month.
Perhaps the world needs reminding that Africa is the continent that contributes least to climate change, but must now live with its most serious consequences.
Weather patterns are changing; the rains, in certain areas, have been failing; and great swaths of the continent have been suffering unusually severe drought.
While international attention has been understandably focused on events in Darfur, Somalia and Zimbabwe, countries across the continent including Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Liberia have been quietly turning their economies around.
The global economic crisis threatens the progress in my country and elsewhere on our continent.
Under the Cold War “balance of terror,” Western Europe organized an economic, political, and cultural community that has now brought about a modern era of “perpetual peace” on that continent.
The US backed up its stance by deploying nuclear weapons on the European continent, and by stationing troops on the front lines in Germany as a “trip-wire”: an attack there would trigger US participation in any war the communist side might begin.
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