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But Russia is not interested in joining, at least not on Europe’s terms.
Or they can decide to move toward Europe, perhaps in the distant future joining the EU as its largest – and perhaps most influential – member.
If, instead, Russia and Ukraine had been encouraged to work toward joining the European Economic Community and were invited to join NATO, the arc of history would have been bent in a much more peaceful direction.
To strengthen high-seas governance, the Global Ocean Commission is joining the call for a new agreement under UNCLOS to protect biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction.
Joining the euro was certainly ruinous for Greece, but there is always “a great deal of ruin in a nation,” as Adam Smith remarked 250 years ago, when losing the American colonies seemed to threaten Britain with financial devastation.
It can mean two or more countries joining forces to face a potential enemy more efficiently; or, on the contrary, to invade and gain control over some other country.
In the 1990’s, in the run-up to joining the eurozone, Greece achieved substantial gains on this front.
By joining the euro, Italy surrendered monetary sovereignty to an external, independent decision-maker, the European Central Bank.
If joining the EU is a matter of economic gains and losses and no longer necessary for national survival, perhaps it is not desirable?
But if a significant group of large and prosperous west European countries, including Britain, Sweden, Italy and Spain remain outside this new federation, there will be less pressure on eastern Europe to accept the costly conditions and restrictions on national sovereignty which joining the Franco-German federation entail.
Instead of joining the highly regulated and integrated Franco-German core of Europe, they can remain part of the flexible, diverse and deregulated periphery to which historically and geographically they have always belonged.
Ordinary people everywhere have been working hard to halt projects inconsistent with a climate-safe future, whether by protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline in the United States or the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline System in Canada; by joining the blockade by “kayactivists” of drilling rigs in the Arctic; or by using local referenda to stop oil and mining projects in Colombia.
By opposing the Prespa agreement, it may be hoping to prevent Macedonia from joining the alliance.
In principle, workers can seek remedies by joining a union and bargaining collectively.
Instead, countries are committed only to enforcing their own labor laws, which often seem designed to prevent workers from joining a union.
The beneficiaries are not just the affluent, but people who in the old days would not have dreamed even of joining the dreaded waiting lists.
To achieve its goal of joining the world’s high-income countries, the government has rightly urged a “decisive role for the market.”
For half a century, the process of European integration proceeded – sometimes with setbacks, sometimes with giant steps forward – joining formerly separate markets by creating very close trade relations.
Countries contemplating joining the bandwagon of sovereign-bond issuers would do well to learn the lessons of the all-too-frequent debt crises of the past three decades.
But there is nothing wrong with joining the AIIB.
Villagers whose crops shriveled and whose livestock died in a prolonged drought saw joining the Taliban as an economic opportunity.
Ireland has been a major beneficiary of EU subvention since joining in 1973, and, in 2007, it was still receiving a net total of €500 million from the EU budget.
Britain’s motive was mainly economic – to escape the EEC’s external tariff against British goods, by joining a more dynamic free-trade area.
Remainers conveniently forget that when Britain voted in 1975 to remain a member of the EEC – after joining in 1973 – the referendum was based on the lie that membership had no political implications.
In countries like Greece, Finland, Italy, and Portugal, joining the single currency ran against the interests of some industrialists, who viewed the devaluation of the national currency as preferable to better but tougher choices aimed at maintaining and improving competitiveness.
Finding a strategy that credibly contains the North Korean threat is the only way to ensure that South Korea and Japan do not make the regrettable choice of joining the nuclear club.
Though the US Senate initially rejected Wilson’s vision, particularly his support for joining the League of Nations, Franklin D. Roosevelt revived liberal internationalism after 1933.
She agreed, joining an increasing number of people who donate their kidneys to strangers.
This huge funding has so far saved the Greek banking system from collapse, and it constitutes the key advantage of joining a real monetary union as opposed Argentina’s ‘quasi-monetary union’ with the USD.
Today, however, with Asia’s giants, India and China, joining the global economy, prices for oil, gold, wheat, and virtually every other commodity are exploding.
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