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As late as June 3, Putin had declared himself sure of Russia’s “swift joining of the WTO.”
With 12 million more people joining the country’s labor force every year, the potential of that dividend is huge.
The Muslim Tatars – roughly 15% of Crimea’s population – strongly oppose joining the Russian Federation and may become a permanent thorn in its side, along with the 25% of Ukrainian-speaking Crimeans who have been silenced over the past ten days.
Unlike joining the EU, which can provide important development funds, joining NATO means only sacrifice.
Moreover, joining NATO means subsuming Romania's military and intelligence services under NATO command (i.e.
So, it is not joining NATO the military alliance that will benefit Romania.
Having borrowed far too much after joining the eurozone in 2001, New Democracy and PASOK let their citizens down when adjustments and reforms were needed after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Italy’s increasingly assertive resistance to German economic dogmas may not be surprising: The country has suffered from almost continuous recession since joining the euro.
In the contemporary American workplace, employers use their court-protected free-speech rights to spread millions of dollars worth of anti-union propaganda, to intimidate individual workers, and to persuade employees that joining a union would mean losing their jobs.
Another unexpected outcome of the election is that the SPD’s leaders are now arguing for joining the opposition – as if participation in the government were a curse to be avoided at all costs.
While Putin managed to stop Georgia from joining NATO, his Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) is a poor replica of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), which included all of the countries of the Eastern Bloc and a few other socialist states.
A poll conducted by the International Republican Institute in September 2007 indicated that 81% of Georgians support joining the EU.
The Arab Spring’s Unintended ConsequencesDENVER – Yemen’s renewed violence is just the latest sign that the Arab Spring may be joining the list of those historical contagions that, in the fullness of time, did not turn out well.
Mental-health problems tend to arise early in life, with the first episode occurring during adolescence or early adulthood – a critical phase of development, when people are completing their education, joining the work force, building key relationships, and forming health habits.
Although Schmitt is notorious for joining the Nazi Party in 1933, it would be a mistake to dismiss him for that reason alone.
He implacably opposed joining the European Union (then the European Economic Community) on the grounds that doing so would compromise British identity and sovereignty.
If and when Britain votes on joining the Euro, the result will most likely tell us all sorts of things about Tony Blair and about the European Union, but little about the merits of the common currency.
The same might be said about joining the EU: if you can only become a member by living up to the standards of the Union, you will never become a member, since you need membership to entrench those standards.
If the 2012 conference is conceived as yet one more opportunity to pressure Israel to join the NPT – possibly in exchange for the Arabs joining the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention – the conference might soon reach an impasse.
In Syria, the ground is being prepared for a similar outcome, with a growing number of radical Islamists crossing into Syria and joining the opposition.
Our success with Operation Artemis, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the EU intervened in 2003 after violent clashes and a humanitarian crisis in Bunia, helped prepare us to mount our EUFOR operation in Chad and the Central African Republic and EUNAVFOR Somalia, which South Africa has expressed an interest in joining.
There, the takeoff point for joining Asia’s great production chains was not just the country’s low wages, but a decision to redress past government omissions: trade liberalization, creation of a more favorable investment climate, and infrastructure improvements.
Many of Africa’s most ambitious and entrepreneurially minded young people are joining others in migrating north.
France is thus joining the cohort of countries that, over the past half-century or so, have developed within their legal culture a judicial form of constitutional review of legislation.
But, by 2040 some 55 countries will be struggling to manage an older population, with the US, China, Singapore, Thailand, and Puerto Rico joining the ranks of the super-aged.
Just as the UK repositioned itself in 1973 by joining what would become the EU, the US and Canada have pivoted toward Latin America and Asia.
China will thus be joining the ranks of the advanced countries in providing an export market (and jobs) for countries at earlier stages of economic development.
Joining the US dollar, the British pound, the euro, and the Japanese yen in the SDR club would be symbolically significant.
More important, as with China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, which required substantial reforms, fulfilling the conditions for joining the SDR promises to speed progress toward full capital-account liberalization – and thus toward a fully convertible renminbi.
But now that it has risen to the top of the global economy, it must adopt the necessary reforms to become fully compliant with the international rules that it accepted upon joining the World Trade Organization in 2001.
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