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The other major advantage of such regional groupings has been their ability to attract foreign direct investment.
When it comes to exchange rates, the members of Africa’s economic groupings would be better off linking their currencies in regional monetary systems to prevent large fluctuations relative to one another.
I saw great interest in Somalia at the African Union’s recent summit in Addis Ababa, and at a meeting in Djibouti of more than 40 governments and regional groupings that belong to the International Contact Group on Somalia.
The EU may well have avoided significant constitutional tensions had its member states' governments initiated such programs much sooner;restructuring of existing regional and continental groupings in order to give priority to increasing the volume of intra-Regional trade.
Can regional economic groupings, such as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), help increase trade and bolster growth?
ASEAN’s pursuit of deeper integration follows a global trend toward using regional groupings and partnerships to gain economies of scale and enlarge “home” markets.
So the next step for the EEAS should be to sit down with Europe’s major business groupings to define and prioritize problem areas.
People say that liberal democrats held power during the Yeltsin years, and that this is the reason why liberal groupings, such as the Union of Right Forces of which I was the leader, could not garner mass support.
On one hand, it illustrates the maxim that “all politics is local”: parties are deeply rooted in national traditions, and pan-European groupings are only loose, non-influential federations.
Both groupings actually seem clueless when it comes to empowering disenfranchised working-class citizens, whereas the proponents of identity politics offer at least the guise of a response.
Until now, the EU has primarily fostered cooperation in the area of research and development, while various country groupings have worked to establish different defense and security capabilities.
It neglected the fact that groupings like the EU began with small, practical steps forward.
Europe was divided into eight broad zones, comprising individual countries like Germany, France, and Italy, or groupings of smaller countries such as Benelux and the Nordic area.
These divergences help to explain why a number of new acronymic groupings have since been carved out of the N-11, including the MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey) and the MIST (swapping in South Korea for Nigeria).
I didn’t devise these groupings, but I have come to be associated with them, having produced a BBC radio documentary on the MINT countries in 2014.
In this case, the problem comes down to a lack of commitment, with the EU choosing the convenience of informal and ad hoc groupings over the challenge of reforming key institutions like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank, which are essential for effective multilateralism.
The opposite is true for regional groupings in Africa and in the Middle East where trade with the outside world is more important than intra-regional trade.
And evidence of worsening antagonisms among disparate social groupings and classes is mounting.
That mandate remains with current supervisors and international groupings, such as the Financial Stability Forum.
Finally, one can envision a system in which the attempt to establish global rules is abandoned, but regional or like-minded country groupings formulate their own sets of rules.
There certainly is room for regional groupings or for like-minded countries to organize themselves.
Yet, to this day, most regional groupings remain too weak to solve their members’ pressing problems.
Conservative groupings, whose origins lay in Francoism, actually served as vital building blocks of Spain’s democracy.
The other would be a request for veto-restraint by at least 50 member states, including at least five members from each of the recognized geographical groupings.
First, the G20 should call on other international groupings to conduct analyses of their investment policies to ensure alignment with the bloc’s nine principles.
With the establishment of ECOWAS, the Franc Zone countries created two sub-regional groupings, WAEMU and CEMAC, in a bid to curb British, American, and Nigerian influence.
With care, such groupings may become the building blocks, rather than the spoilers, of global consensus.
Most Western countries recognize that the core aspects of sovereignty - the ability of a society to maintain the liberty and prosperity of its citizens - are best secured within alliances and groupings like Nato and the EU, not by going-it-alone.
It would also be responsible for overseeing the banking union, and it would represent the eurozone in all international financial institutions and informal groupings.
Never mind that the heads of four European Parliament groupings responded by calling for Czarnecki’s removal from his post, or that Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, defended Czarnecki.
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