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Continent in sentence

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Further, the Continent will undoubtedly need some transformative changes of its economic institutions to establish high-performance economies.
This is precisely why Europe should be debating about the Continent's real problems, not locking their economies into corporatism by enshrining the "social market economy" into the emerging EU constitution.
Over the past two decades, nearly 700 institutions of higher education on every continent have signed it.
If we compare ourselves to the rest of Latin America, the truth is that we have done things very well, especially in the last 25 years, during which we went from being one of the poorest countries on the continent to having the highest per capita income in the region.
After all, when the walls had come down all over Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990 this Alliance of Western Europe and North America had seemed victorious and, when the Soviet Union fell apart a year later, could proudly claim to be the only functioning multilateral security organization on the continent.
Europe does not increase its influence by berating the US for acting in its national interest;2. showing some understanding for the view of some in the Bush administration that the US should not be bogged down by a continent that is soft, decadent and moralizing.
That hardly seems a rational policy for a continent in profound transition.
The introduction of the euro was supposed to spur the less dynamic and competitive European economies, mostly in the south of the continent, to drive down their costs and increase their competitiveness.
A decade later, it is worth considering whether the continent is any closer to finding the next global genius.
Across the continent, there is a growing consensus among governments that education and research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is critical for economic growth and development.
Eventually, it will stretch from the oil and import/export center of Bandar Abbas in southwest Iran all the way across the continent to Shanghai.
The consequences for Nigeria’s 114 million people, for the rest of the troubled continent of Africa and for the international system would be catastrophic if Nigeria disintegrated.
Indeed, today’s enthusiasm for currency unions ignores the poor track record of previous attempts on the continent to establish them through peaceful means.
Instead of the “ring of well governed countries” the European Union envisaged in its 2003 Security Strategy, the continent has come to be surrounded by a “ring of fire.”
It is a shocking observation: as recently as in 2009, European politicians and commentators lambasted the US for being at the root of the financial turmoil and hailed the euro for protecting the continent from it.
It also filled a geopolitical vacuum at the heart of the continent, placing a check on Germany and Russia.
Certainly by the time of the West’s military intervention in Bosnia, this strategy was based on the assumption that the European continent after the end of the Cold War should not allow itself to have a divided security system – that is, if security and peace were to be permanent.
And yet, as critical as the EU’s relationship with Turkey may be, bringing peace to Cyprus would have even greater resonance across the continent.
And there is no reason to believe that the storms of populism blowing across the continent will not make landfall in the UK.
Worries over migration and the spectacle of a divided, dysfunctional Europe have benefited xenophobes and extremists across the continent.
Just as Lula’s 2002 election signified a sea of change in a highly class-conscious, socially stratified society, Silva’s election would shake up the racial order in a country – and indeed continent – where racism has not been eradicated.
Implemented across the EU, the comprehensive program that we propose could close the output gap and return the continent to a sustained annual growth rate in the 2-3% range over the next decade, fostering investment of €250 billion to €550 billion per year, and creating more than 20 million new jobs.
Some 70% of Africa’s population is under 30, and the continent is home to half the world’s primary-school-age children who have been deprived of the opportunity to study.
In 2013, African goods and services accounted for just 16% of trade within the continent, and just over 3% of world trade.
The continent is well placed to build diversified economies based on low-carbon, sustainable infrastructure.
The United Nations estimates that the continent will account for more than 40% of global population growth through 2030, with the working-age population expected to surpass that of China by 2040.
But, throughout the continent, market opportunities for consumer-facing companies are concentrated more in cities than in particular countries.
Africans need visas to travel to more than half the countries on their own continent.
Still, Latin Americans know how to resist and how to create social movements to fight the "axis of evil" - militarization, foreign debt, and the Association of Free Trade for the Americas - that seeks to subject their continent to re-colonization by the US.
The progressive deepening of EU integration has brought dynamic vigor to the European continent; despite Europe’s current difficulties, it still boasts extraordinary overall strength and international influence.
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