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What the EU is facing in the Mediterranean isn’t primarily a currency problem; first and foremost, it is a strategic problem – one that requires solutions urgently.
Facing up to that reality will be the main challenge for Europe’s leaders in 2013.
BUCHAREST: Romania is facing a fundamental question that many thought buried alongside Nicolae Ceausescu: Is it right to achieve just political ends by suspect or outright undemocratic means?
Perhaps the patient is isolated, lonely, suffering from depression, out of work, or facing some other personal or family calamity.
And, as if conditions could not be worse, the country is facing a polio outbreak.
Property sales have fallen, particularly outside the largest cities, and slower construction growth has left heavy industry facing severe overcapacity.
In short, the existential challenge facing farmers lies within Britain’s own borders.
Indeed, if nothing is done to address the water challenges facing the MENA region, those challenges may fuel future wars.
But perhaps the biggest challenge facing Macron will be to persuade Germany’s next chancellor, to be elected in September, to work with him to reform the eurozone.
Panic about terrorism and climate change doesn’t blind us entirely to other problems facing the planet, but our fear does distort the lens through which we see the big picture.
That is the quandary facing those who must grapple with the fallout of “advanced predictive algorithms” – the binary building blocks of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).
Over the last 30 years or so, skill-biased technological change has fueled the polarization of both employment and wages, with median workers facing real wage stagnation and non-college-educated workers suffering a significant decline in their real earnings.
The most critical issue facing Brown is whether he chooses to distance himself from Blair’s self-satisfied and delusional claim that the invasion of Iraq was “the right thing to do.”Britain has already reduced its forces in southern Iraq, and is on course to reduce them still further as they hand over “security” to the Iraqi police and military.
The choice facing Brown is whether to cling silently to the existing policy, in the futile hope that the problem will go away, or explicitly recognize Britain’s share in the disaster.
But the massive scale of the challenges facing Afghanistan should not overshadow the opportunities for positive change.
Latin America’s Anti-Corruption CrusadeMEXICO CITY – Even as much of Latin America engages in almost hyperbolic celebrations over the renewed diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States, the continent is facing two major challenges.
In Chile, Michelle Bachelet is facing the most important political crisis of her presidency, and perhaps since the return of democracy in 1989.
More than 42,000 government officials on average were investigated for corruption every year from 2002 to 2005, with more than 30,000 per year facing criminal charges.
Facing economic crisis, widespread unemployment, and rising competition from developing economies, Europe must adjust to technological advances and new modes of working – all while an aging population puts increasing strain on exhausted public budgets.
That is the real challenge facing Europe.
As a result, Europeans, facing uncertain environmental consequences while receiving none of the revenues, tend to oppose fracking nearby.
Global processes like the IPCC are crucial, but the issues must also be “brought home” to the conditions and challenges facing each country.
Turkey would be facing the same risks even if it were integrated into a European context, but its priorities would then be completely different.
It is always dangerous to give the impression of being the first to blink when facing authoritarian regimes.
There, as well as in Jordan and Turkey, local residents are facing financial ruin as rents and prices soar, unemployment rises, and salaries fall.
Fortunately, in facing the difficult adjustment challenges that lie ahead, China’s $3.6 trillion in foreign-currency reserves can serve as a buffer against unavoidable losses.
My own experience highlights the dangers facing environmental crusaders.
Our Double-Dip FutureNEW YORK – We are at a moment when the range of uncertainties facing the global economy is unusually wide.
A more precise understanding of the distinct problems facing Europe is vital to resolving them.
This is the cultural challenge facing democracy today, and those who wish to maintain the freedom and promise of democratic societies ignore it at their peril.
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