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No one can predict whether the SNP might end up in the paradoxical position of joining a coalition with Labour to govern a country that it was campaigning to leave in last September’s independence referendum.
South Africa’s governing political party, the African National Congress, entered the post-apartheid era playing the neo-liberal game – joining the World Trade Organization, repaying odious debt to international investors, and safeguarding private assets by renouncing its commitment to nationalization.
I was working for a very large American bank at the time, and I can still remember joining frequent transatlantic conference calls to discuss Italy’s debt-to-GDP ratio.
An estimated 23 million more young people will be joining African labor markets this year, and the continent’s total workforce is expected to increase by 910 million from 2010 to 2050.
In order to achieve this, countries joining the program would pledge to devote at least 0.02% of their GDP toward the effort.
By joining a new Alliance for Torture-Free Trade, governments will agree to establish national export bans on products used for torture or executions, while further empowering their customs authorities to enforce the prohibitions.
Denmark’s government has done just this and seems to be bringing the Danish public around to the idea of joining the euro.
Prime Minister Tony Blair is apparently convinced of the strategic desirability of joining the euro, but because a Yes vote in a referendum now looks so implausible he is unlikely to try.
But merely joining conversations or showing up for meetings is not enough.
Cyprus now becomes a key issue athwart the road of Turkey eventually joining the EU.
It should also be recalled, however, that when Slovenia entered the eurozone in 2007, many people suggested that the country was somehow joining “Old Europe.”
More mayors are joining our cause every year, and our determination to pursue nuclear disarmament will only deepen in the years ahead.
This is not nearly as desirable an outcome as Pakistan joining what should be a common international effort.
(Those interested in joining the course can register here.)
At first, Turkey seemed to support Syria’s Alawite leadership under President Bashar al-Assad, then switched sides, joining a coalition of Sunni Arab states in the so-far disastrous effort to remove Assad.
SHANGHAI – China is increasingly debating whether or not the renminbi should be internationalized, possibly joining the US dollar and the euro as an international vehicle currency (IVC) – that is, a currency that other countries use to denominate the prices of their traded goods and international loans.
Joining the customs union would limit Ukraine’s ability to negotiate its own trade agreements.
To start, the dispute over Ukraine’s prospects of joining NATO must be definitively settled.
To help chart a path for companies to hire, retain, and promote female employees, we are joining more than 400 global business leaders and government representatives in Santiago, Chile, this week for the Fourth Global Forum on Business for Gender Equality.
In other cases, joining NATO could create less security: Finland, a member of the EU remains outside NATO for this reason; its existing modus vivendi with Russia is a stable and satisfactory one.
The strength of this reaction would probably be commensurate with the extent of enlargement: Prague or Vienna joining would draw a weaker backlash in Moscow than a similar move in Tallinn or Kiev.
Joining Great Britain with them in a Club of Three would be a good idea, but it is out of the question nowadays.
But in so infringing basic human rights to freedoms of association and expression to such a degree, Turkey’s restrictions on veiling are now, paradoxically, imperiling one of secular Turkey’s great ambitions: joining the European Union.
In addition, the prospect of a democratic Russia eventually joining Nato might be openly acknowledged.
Back in the 1990s, I campaigned against Greece’s entry into the eurozone, just like Britain’s Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, campaigned in the 1970s against joining the EU.
This approach has been integral to ASEAN’s economic strategy from the beginning, and continues with the soon-to-be concluded Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership joining ASEAN with China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, and New Zealand.
In Georgia, the country where support for European and Euro-Atlantic integration has historically been the most solid, a recent poll showed that 31% of respondents supported joining Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pet project, the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) – up from 16% just one year ago.
And they naively assumed that the mere dream of one day joining the EU would ensure countries’ loyalty, even in the face of Putin’s hard-power threats.
On April 4, my mother gave me 18 knocks on the head for joining the Young Pioneers (the communist youth organization) without her permission.
An exaggerated fear that Muslims are about to destroy the West appears to be their main motive for joining the far right.
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