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High-speed broadband Internet access can improve everything from transport management, environmental protection, and emergency services to health care, distance education, and agricultural productivity.
Given the Balkan emergency the enlargement process to the stable, consolidated democracies would be downgraded or slowed down.
Those measures were far from perfect; they had to be formulated on the fly, in the context of an unexpected emergency.
The fiscal problem could be dealt with by issuing generally guaranteed European bonds, which might be a temporary measure, restricted to the financial emergency.
After all, there was no immediate emergency, and everybody would have understood if Sarkozy had waited another two or three years before risking his reputation on reviving the idea of a European constitution.
The world spent $15 billion on its emergency response to the SARS epidemic and $40 billion on its response to Ebola.
Had countries spent more on mitigating the risk of such disease outbreaks – for example, by fortifying their health-care systems and promoting responsible use of antibiotics – those huge emergency payouts may not have been necessary.
In response, European governments, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund arranged a €700 billion emergency eurozone rescue program to calm the financial storms.
Revealingly, the Fund, not the European Union, has taken the lead in negotiating emergency assistance packages for Hungary and Latvia.
Their problems are part of the development emergency we face.
We have helped people affected by severe flooding in Southeast Asia, and by drought in the Horn of Africa, where 14 million need emergency help.
SRM might be needed in a planetary emergency – say, if continued warming rapidly accelerates ice-sheet melting and sea-level rise, or if it accelerates methane and CO2 emissions from thawing tundra, which would then accelerate the warming itself.
Zika was declared an international public-health emergency.
The US had no effective navy, a weak army, and insufficient ability to mobilize in the face of an obvious national emergency.
Reform does not require a state of emergency, as is often argued.
In the Dominican Republic, which has invested in hurricane shelters and emergency evacuation networks, the death toll was fewer than ten.
Ride-sharing companies get a lot of press nowadays, but when people needed to make their way safely out of areas where attacks were taking place, it was Paris taxi drivers who responded to the emergency by making their services available for free, supplementing public transportation.
And the people companies helped so capably and generously during the emergency in Paris are the same people they betray and conceal information from at other times.
While Draghi’s promise, embodied by the ECB’s “outright monetary transactions” program – as well as its long-term refinancing operation and emergency liquidity assistance program – has bought time and lowered yields, the eurozone’s banking crisis persists.
But what was an emergency remedy has become a long-term policy, because there is no economic activity to take its place.
Argentina is a country that lives in an almost continual state of emergency.
Fourth, the eurozone needs a proper emergency financing mechanism.
On September 12, the court will determine whether the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Europe’s permanent emergency fund, complies with Germany’s constitution.
In fact, guidelines were established last September, when the court ruled on which aspects of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) – the precursor to the ESM and the eurozone’s current temporary emergency fund – were unacceptable, and laid out criteria that any potential solution must meet.
As a result, decisions taken by European politicians during their regular or emergency meetings may be reversible, particularly if they would undermine the German parliament’s fiscal authority.
A few dozen emergency workers who battled the fire at the reactor succumbed to acute radiation sickness.
During the financial crisis, the monetary authorities were called on to assume temporary emergency powers, including massive purchases of government and private-sector bonds.
There is widespread agreement among governments, development partners, and relief agencies that in a crisis like that caused by Ebola – or any other health emergency, for that matter – strong financial management is critical.
In Europe, while Greeks may grumble about the terms of German backing for emergency financing, the period since World War II has seen enormous progress in knitting countries together.
The wheels of Philippine justice need retooling, so much so that the country’s Chief Justice himself recently called for an emergency summit to discuss a rash of extra-judicial killings that have the claimed the lives of leftists, human rights workers, and journalists under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
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