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Even some of the ostensibly “responsible” members of the eurozone are facing higher interest rates.
Companies are facing growing pressure to behave ethically, and unethical business behavior is at last being punished.
But, when facing a disease that kills up to 70% of those who are infected, and no accepted treatment yet exists, patients could reasonably refuse consent to a trial in which they might receive a placebo, rather than an experimental treatment that offers some hope of recovery.
For an EU country to be considered “normal,” it should be subject to the scrutiny facing countries that were never bailed out.
The tribunal and the local courts imprisoned 13 of those who gave the orders, as well as 17 execution-squad members; 11 more men, four of them leaders, are facing their reckoning.
But Serbia’s authorities, facing economic turmoil, cannot harbor him much longer if the United States and the European Union exert adequate pressure.
Yet, in facing a worsening problem of home-grown terrorism, Western countries are often unaware of this radicalization process.
Third, the EU is confronting, in more severe form, a problem facing much of the developed world: powerful forces operating beyond the control of elected officials are shaping citizens’ lives, leaving them feeling powerless.
He no longer understands the problems facing the country, and therefore has no idea what needs to be done.
The list of pressing issues facing Russia is already long, and their resolution can no longer be delayed.
But US efforts to encourage Europeans to adopt their pragmatic and discretionary approach to economic policy inevitably lead to frustration: the issues confronting the European economies are different from those facing the US--as are perceptions about the challenges.
While there is a laudable international effort to help Africa grow out of heavy donor dependency in the next decade, the equally momentous economic-development and human-security challenges facing Central Asia is generally not fully understood.
Bringing the World Health Organization Back to HealthCAMBRIDGE: Many life and death issues facing developing countries can only be addressed by international joint action.
The EU is now facing its own civil war, though one that, fortunately, is free of physical violence.
The internal recession that followed the bailout was deep and long and left the ordinary Mexican citizen with a sharply reduced income facing higher prices for goods and services.
Germany agreed to relinquish the Deutsche Mark on the condition that the new currency area would not lead to direct or indirect socialization of its members’ debt, thus precluding any financial assistance from EU funds for states facing bankruptcy.
One would prefer to see Mexico’s presidential candidates offer platforms with ideas and proposals that respond to the challenges facing the country, but this substance deficit occurs everywhere now, almost all the time.
It was the tsunami, caused by the largest earthquake ever to strike Japan, that killed more than 16,000 people, destroyed or damaged roughly 125,000 buildings, and left the country facing what its prime minister described as its biggest crisis since World War II.
Then there are the complex technical difficulties facing policymakers, to which US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke referred in his refreshingly candid manner, acknowledging that “We don’t have a precise read.”
Two visions of Europe – the diplomatic and the demotic – are now facing off against each other.
In steps the Bush Administration, facing a divided Congress and a cloud over its legitimacy.
But weakened by the financial crisis, deeply indebted to foreign countries, bogged down in Iraq, facing major challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and feeling psychologically humbled, the US may no longer be in the same unrivalled position to lead the international community, even under the inspiring leadership of Barack Obama.
The main challenge facing the OAS – if it survives the departure of the radical left – is to close the loopholes in its basic documents regarding the collective defense of democracy and human rights.
Major TV networks depicted upper middle class Argentines facing hard times.
Even if the stars were in perfect alignment and the US was not facing a saving constraint, it stretches credibility to seek a formulaic bilateral solution to America’s multilateral problem.
Whatever the immediate outcome, the Kuwaiti government is facing a new political horizon.
The US financial sector received an unconditional bailout – and is not now facing any kind of meaningful re-regulation.
The new moral dilemma facing economists is perhaps most stark within international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, where economic mandarins with significant influence over public policy earn their living.
These could include higher capital or provisioning requirements as buffers for more difficult times, or the stipulation of liquidity standards and special requirements for systemically important banks in order to avoid a recurrence of the “too big to fail” dilemma that many countries – not only in the EBRD region – have been facing.
Colombia’s Eternal AgonyColombia is in better shape today than it has been for years, thanks largely to President Alvaro Uribe’s leadership, but it remains a bizarre place, one facing strange and intractable challenges.
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