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Despite recent crises and the hard blow dealt by the Brexit vote, the EU may well be the world’s best line of defense against today’s most serious threats: isolationism, protectionism, nationalism, and extremism in all forms, all of which are once again growing in Europe and beyond.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, growing ever stronger, is acting with impunity.
The third new development on the peninsula is a growing awareness among North Koreans of their country’s dire situation.
Similarly, growing connections between groups within the Soviet bloc and the West played a major role in bringing about the 1975 Helsinki Accords.
At the company level, a growing body of evidence shows that more gender equality is good for bottom lines.
But, in this case, the crisis kept growing bigger, and the authorities ran out of road when Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled out additional guarantees beyond the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) without the consent of the Bundestag.
There is growing opposition to illegal entry, but no consensus about what to do about those who have been in the country illegally for years or those who want to come to the US in the future.
Yet when the actual budget proposals are made, there will be a growing backlash.
There is the growing clout of Muslim-majority countries, such as Turkey, the Gulf States, and Indonesia, which means that global problems – from security to the economy to humanitarian relief (where I will be devoting my energies starting in September) – can no longer be addressed without powerful partners in the Muslim world.
Nevertheless, the fundamental imbalances between creditor and debtor countries remain – and, in some cases, are growing.
It stands in the way of a restructuring of its decision-making process that would better reflect developing countries’ growing importance and dynamism.
Today, there are growing concerns about third parties accessing and manipulating Facebook user data; and before that, there was a raging debate about whether the government should be able to unlock devices belonging to suspects of terrorism or other crimes.
But their growing fortunes stand in stark contrast to decades of slow wage growth, which is creating a political backlash.
China’s booming economy has brought growing interaction between China and the Mekong’s underground economies.
The key will be so-called “second-round effects” – whether growing crude prices lead to higher wage demands from trade unions.
The economic, social, and political costs of prolonged economic meltdowns are massive and growing.
But pushing down the price of power and making it available across growing cities and vast territories remains a daunting, and yet central, task.
The Nuremberg Trials and, in parallel, the creation of the United Nations and its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signaled the growing importance of law in international relations.
Beyond the direct danger of further casualties, there is the growing fear among populations, which populist politicians are eagerly attempting to exploit.
England’s chief medical officer, Sally Davies, has warned that, if left unchecked, the growing impotence of drugs could be catastrophic.
Even leaving aside other important dimensions of the issue – such as fear of globalization, growing ethical doubts about contemporary technologies, and concerns about the environmental consequences of growth – redefining progress is a challenge of daunting magnitude.
But it is an uncertain outcome in the longer term, given the coalition’s considerable political baggage, and it is a bad outcome for democracy, especially at a time when populist forces are a growing threat.
Whatever success the SPD has had playing the coalition game, the party’s participation in yet another Merkel-led government stands to cost it growing numbers of lower- and middle-income voters.
The United States generously subsidizes production of ethanol from maize, with output there currently growing 12% annually and almost 10% worldwide.
A growing body of evidence shows that vaccines’ benefits extend beyond preventing illness and death.
Clearly, “Chinese power is growing,” but he does not “see the Americans retreating from Asia.”
He notes that it is currently “sucking the Southeast Asian countries into its economic system because of its vast market and growing purchasing power.
Despite growing concerns about China’s corporate debt – which is now close to 170% of GDP – and its ability to escape the middle-income trap, rapid digitization will allow the Chinese economy to continue moving up the value chain.
Recognizing the blatant injustice – not to mention the destructiveness – of this state of affairs, a new initiative, launched by the Carbon Levy Project and supported by a growing number of individuals and organizations, has emerged to demand compensation for vulnerable developing countries from the big polluters.
And there are other risks stemming from humanity’s greater collective impact on the planet, and from the growing empowerment of individuals.
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