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Despite Brexit and the rise of far-right parties in Italy and other countries, the European Parliament election in May did not produce the feared populist landslide.
Before China joined the WTO in 2001, many feared that its membership could doom the organization in one of three ways.
Machiavelli famously wrote that, “It is better to be feared than loved.”
Xi is not feared so much as hated.
As Krastev, together with Mark Leonard and Susi Dennison of the European Council on Foreign Relations, put it, “The EU was created by societies that feared their past.
Whereas Israel maintains that it started the June 1967 war preemptively because it feared an assault from Egypt, Arabs dispute this and commonly refer to the conflict as an aggression against them.
The End of the EU’s Brexit BounceBERLIN – After the United Kingdom voted in 2016 to leave the European Union, policymakers and political leaders across Europe feared that they, too, would soon face a similar crisis.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had long been reluctant to proceed with impeachment, lost control of her caucus over the issue this summer and has ended up where she feared: in a bitter partisan fight.
But, because post-1945 Britain feared that stronger multilateral institutions would put even more anti-colonialist pressure on the country as it retreated from empire, we often remained at arm’s length.
Building Back a Better Transatlantic AllianceBERLIN – Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election has been met with a wave of relief across Europe, where many feared that a second term for Donald Trump would have threatened the very survival of the European Union.
Yes, populist forces gained ground, but not nearly as much as some had feared.
Young people feared they would end up where their parents had started a generation ago.
The story is similar in other Latin American countries, suggesting that the economic reversal feared by those protesting in the streets last December is already happening.
If a peso depreciation seems imminent, all rational holders of pesos will dump them for a readily available stable currency, thereby causing the rapid depreciation they feared.
The Debt Dogs that Didn’t BarkBERKELEY– Last March, when COVID-19 infected the world economy, many observers feared that emerging markets and developing countries would suffer the most, financially and otherwise.
Reassuringly, the impact of COVID-19 on developing countries, in Africa specifically, has been less than feared.
At first, she feared that his fishing trawler had sunk or been attacked by pirates.
Perhaps audience members feared a critical tweet or felt gratitude for a tax cut that benefited billionaires and large corporations at the expense of nearly everyone else (indeed, tax rates in the US will rise for some 70% of those in the middle).
Meanwhile, on the periphery of the Soviet empire, many feared that a potential collapse of the system would bring Red Army tanks back into streets and city squares.
Although China’s main aim was to punish and deter economic crimes on the mainland, the demonstrators feared – with some justification – that the proposed law would expose Hong Kong’s citizens to mainland definitions of crime and China’s illiberal justice system.
For example, before RCT evidence to the contrary, it was feared that cash transfers lead to conflict and alcoholism.
I feared that events on the ground would soon refute all my praise for the country.
In any case, the policy response should be flexible and reversible, in the event that the epidemic and its economic impact are less severe than feared.
For starters, it is feared that large ECB bond purchases could lead to high inflation.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his cronies feared that globalization, urbanization, and the Internet might endanger their dictatorship.
On one hand, the authorities clearly feared civil war and responsibility for starting it; on the other hand, the sympathies of ordinary people at the rally were with the opposition: they want a normal life and are afraid of violence.
Now, the electoral consequences that Macri feared if he made the hard choices have materialized precisely because he didn’t.
Many feared that India, which from its foundation has been a secular state, had turned a corner to becoming a Hindu Rashtra, a state of and for its Hindu majority.
For example, China’s economy is clearly slowing, although not as much as some had feared given the ongoing trade war with the US.
Many feared the consequences of a powerful state, especially once the democratic impulse was rolled back.
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