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In the end, Eastern Europe's pro-EU elites were left with only one means of stirring enthusiasm for EU membership: general pronouncements about how the EU delivered peace and stability to a notoriously war-prone continent, as well as the promises of economic prosperity.
According to this vision, the EU’s inhabitants had the nation to lose and a continent to gain.
Ever since the 1986 Single European Act removed restrictions on working in other member countries, the continent has been a single labor market – at least in theory.
The Central Asian Human Development Report, recently launched by the United Nations Development Program, argues that the countries of Central Asia have a great opportunity to capitalize on their location at the center of a dynamic continent, their abundant natural resources, and their still-strong potential to forge a prosperous, stable, and cohesive region.
To label China a “colonizer” or “benefactor” does little to help us understand the true nature of its relationship with the African continent, let alone other regions such as the Caribbean.
The shift toward hiring more local labor is particularly notable, because, as recently as 2015, almost 40% of all Chinese overseas workers were on the African continent.
We were there to discuss how the digital economy can propel the kind of radical change the continent needs.
The continent has a great opportunity to develop new low-carbon energy strategies that build resilience and support growth that benefits everyone, reducing poverty faster.
With a tsunami of plebiscites bearing down on the continent, this may turn out to be a prescient metaphor.
The prize is something that has never been achieved in European history: the building of a liberal order that embraces the whole continent.
The Colombian government is committed to making every possible effort to realize the dream of a guerilla-free country – and continent – in 2013.
The continent's Euroskeptic political parties, on both the left and the right, are holding up Putin's authoritarian nationalism as a model for the type of illiberal regime they would seek to establish should the EU dissolve.
Russia’s history has been characterized by continuous expansion over the Eurasian continent.
What has made America so prosperous is the country’s ability to mobilize the natural resources of an entire continent, along with political stability and an extraordinarily rare combination of sensible government action and individual entrepreneurial innovation.
Next to nothing, though, is being said about the Commission’s more important, and more integral, proposal: the 20% spending commitment for projects and initiatives that can stimulate resource-efficient business, protect Europe’s collective, boundary-less environment, and ensure a better future for families across the continent.
Should we write off what more than two generations of Europeans have created – a massive investment in institution-building that has led to the longest period of peace and prosperity in the history of the continent?
To realize Nyerere’s vision of a strong, dignified continent, Africa needs a new era of liberation, one that is fueled by the economic empowerment of the continent’s women.
That is why we are launching the “Women Advancing Africa” initiative, which is part of our ongoing effort to amplify the voices of Africa’s underrepresented and to establish a pan-African women’s movement, in which women can come together to transform the continent.
The inaugural Women Advancing Africa Forum will take place this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and will convene more than 250 women leaders from across the continent.
In 1732, news swept through the Continent that a dead man from a Serbian village killed others at night.
In order to catch up with the rest of the Continent in wealth, Spain must remain daring in four big ways:- Regulators and competition authorities must be made formally and materially independent of government control.
South of the RevolutionPRETORIA – Over dinner in Algiers recently, we asked each other whether the youth-led revolutions unfolding in northern Africa presage the awakening of economic lions throughout the continent.
The continent also ranks first or second in world reserves of bauxite, industrial diamonds, phosphate rock, vermiculite, and zirconium.
We also need to strengthen social cohesion on the continent.
A high-powered Russian delegation recently arrived in Juba, the South Sudanese capital, with the proclaimed aim of “playing a more active role on the African continent.”
Yet the continent remains stubbornly inhospitable – politically, economically, and socially – to young people.
The success of African governments’ efforts to address this will be the single most important factor determining whether the continent prospers or suffers in the coming decades.
And Africa’s international partners have remained preoccupied with containing migration from the continent, rather than addressing its underlying causes.
One hopes that the growing recognition of the need to create opportunities for young people leads to effective, solidarity-based initiatives that address the barriers to youth empowerment on the continent, instead of erecting barriers to prevent young people from leaving.
European leaders cannot remain passive in the face of the dangerous populist tsunami now crossing the continent, and they know it.
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