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Why have demands by the EU’s new member states for freer access to Western Europe’s labor and services markets, and for the right to compete with “old Europe” for investment, been stigmatized as social dumping?
Shia have an interest in supporting the central government because they believe that their demographic weight (60% of Iraq’s population) means that representative democracy will guarantee them the right to rule and protect them from Sunni demands and attacks.
Recently, the Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander, delivering his first annual address to Parliament, said, “Our labor market and system of public services no longer fully meet the demands of the twenty-first century….The classical welfare state is slowly but surely evolving into a participation society.”
Euthyphro insists that the gods will approve of his action, because he is doing what piety demands.
But, just as with medicine, this demands an accurate diagnosis of a problem’s causes.
The US government has provided some $600 million through UN agencies and non-governmental organizations to meet immediate humanitarian demands.
The demands that defined the Arab Spring – for democracy, good governance, human rights, transparency, gender equality, and social justice – will continue to shape the regional agenda.
But should universities now reduce their demands in order to meet the needs of the larger society, not least in terms of their carbon footprint?
But cries for political inclusion are different from demands for direct democracy.
A third widespread challenge that awaits emerging leaders is the inescapable reality that citizens’ demands increasingly overwhelm the capacity to satisfy them.
Demands are mounting at the same time as the ability of governments to satisfy them is diminishing.
Demands and protests - the Democrats huffed - will get you nowhere.
The goal of openness implied by immigration is worth preserving, especially if both its demands and its promise apply across the board.
It is within each European country, between the need for a meritocratic administration of public goods – a task with which EU institutions were once entrusted – and citizens’ demands for a greater say in national and European affairs.
But a sufficiently bold climate strategy demands courage and political commitment from leaders.
Within Germany, Merkel’s demands have calmed the electorate, which was unhappy with the Greek bail-out.
Another issue that demands diplomacy is North Korea, which is developing nuclear weapons and the intercontinental ballistic weapons needed to deliver them.
Greece has met its creditors’ demands far more than halfway.
As the example of Greece has shown, they will do only what short-sighted electoral politics demands.
They thought they were looking beyond the short-term demands that usually preoccupy political leaders.
Resolving such conflicts requires, at a minimum, some baseline rules of the game, which can be developed and implemented only on a multilateral basis, not in the unilateral way that China demands.
People in senior leadership positions, it was believed, face higher risks of coronary disease because of the demands of their jobs.
After five years of an average annual economic growth of 9%, economic claims are strikingly absent, as are all socialist and even social demands.
The United States, Egypt’s main ally, while stopping short of siding with the protesters, is holding the regime to Mubarak’s promise of a “better democracy,” and demanding swift action to meet the people’s legitimate demands.
Ideally, this should come about in a manner similar to democratic transitions in Latin America in the 1980’s, when authoritarian, army-backed rulers yielded to popular demands for radical, democratic regime change.
A much smaller number even disclose information that embarrasses the authorities and make explicit demands, often at great personal risk.
The CCP might try to eliminate all mention of what happened at Tiananmen Square for fear of triggering renewed calls for human rights and democracy; but, though this anniversary will pass without official acknowledgment, the protesters’ demands have not gone away, and they cannot be suppressed forever.
All parties agreed that there could be no renegotiation of the treaty, because that would open a Pandora’s box of demands from all sides.
The risk is that fully satisfying all the myriad demands for public services would require a public sector so big that it might well crowd out innovative activities in the private sector.
India’s economic future lies in maximizing its private sector’s dynamism, which demands an acceleration of institutional reform, including privatization at both the national and state level.
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