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At the very least, the Turks have threatened that, if the EU opens negotiations with the existing Greek Cypriot government, then the government of Ankara will make the division of Cyprus permanent, by incorporating northern Cyprus into Turkey.
In 1987, however, when Turkey applied for full membership of the European Community, the Commission gave it the thumbs down: Turkey was too poor and too populous (before the unification of Germany, it was bigger than any member state); its human rights record was unacceptable; and it was disqualified by its invasion of northern Cyprus in 1974.
Their choice of Romano Prodi as the President of the new Commission has been explained by some in cynical terms: Jacques Santer, the outgoing President, was a Christian Democrat from a small Northern member state (Luxembourg); the next President had to be a Left-of-Centre politician, from a large member state in the south of the EU.
And, perhaps worst of all, terrorists and extremists have been targeting schools, blowing up their buildings and threatening their teachers, particularly in the northern part of the country.
Soon, Hezbollah rockets supplied by Syria and Iran were striking northern Israel.
Germany and some of the other northern European countries, demonstrating an unseemly lack of European solidarity, have declared that they should not be asked to pick up the bill for their profligate southern neighbors.
If Germany and the other northern European countries continue to insist on pursuing current policies, they, together with their southern neighbors, will wind up paying a high price.
If the US did shirk its collective-defense responsibilities, South Korea would still have plenty of recourse against its northern neighbor.
For example, an unofficial poll recently showed that 89% of residents in Italy’s northern “Repubblica Veneta” back independence.
Two former Nigerian presidents, Generals Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida, publicly oppose Obasanjo’s constitutional meddling, and several governors of Nigeria’s Muslim-dominated northern states have made clear that they are determined to see Obasanjo off when his term expires in 2007.
If all this turmoil weren’t enough, the discovery of avian flu in the northern provinces further undermines political stability.
Northern governors could, for example, offer the southern states a larger share of Nigeria's oil revenue in exchange for their support for a northern president.
In November, nearly 30 Haitians perished when their boat ran aground on its way to the United States – the third case in the northern Caribbean since October.
Adding substance – and striking symbolism – to the rhetoric, Obama and Gillard announced the creation of a training base in northern Australia for 2,500 US Marines, a significant new capability within easy reach of both South East Asia and the Indian Ocean.
That agenda is “Islam,” which many imagine to include all the terrible things that we can read about in the press every day: the stoning of adulterous women under Sharia law in northern Nigeria, the amputation of thieves’ hands in Saudi Arabia, honor killings of women who refuse arranged marriages in Pakistan (or even northern English cities like Bradford and Manchester), the willingness to justify suicide bombings.
Only China was left, and North Korea’s dependence on its northern neighbor is now almost total.
The world could continue to close its eyes to global warming and hope for the best: a slightly warmer climate that produces as many winners (on the Siberian, Northern European, and Canadian prairies) as losers (in already-hot regions that become hotter and dryer), and that the Gulf Stream continues warming Europe, the monsoons are not disrupted, and that the Ganges delta is not drowned by stronger typhoons.
While some northern countries relish the prospect of extracting minerals from an ice-free Arctic Ocean and using the Northwest Passage, global warming is not good for most of the planet.
We can easily tally the costs of individual conservation efforts like saving the northern spotted owl.
In Nigeria, on February 26, three Christians were killed and dozens wounded after a car bomb exploded close to a church in the northern town of Jos.
At least 500 people have died during the last year in attacks attributed to the violent Islamist group Boko Haram, which has called for all Christians to leave northern Nigeria.
Now, however, the specter of devaluation has disappeared from northern European countries.
The transformation of the old European welfare state started in northern Europe, and it is proceeding to most of the rest of the continent.
In northern Europe, the transformation of the welfare state started in Denmark in 1982.
The second shock was EU integration, including the northern and southern enlargements.
When Monti took office in November 2011, M5S and the Northern League (as it was then called) were polling below 10% combined; today, that figure is well above 50%.
It suffers from less inequality than many advanced industrial countries (though more than Canada and the northern European countries), and it has had a longer-standing commitment to environment preservation.
But can he translate this achievement into an extended ceasefire, peaceful elections, and consolidated PA rule in Gaza and the northern West Bank?
Coupled with all this is northern European discontent with the central bankers, specifically with the ECB and the euro.
Europe needs a monetary policy that views aiding employment growth in northern Europe as more important than continental price stability.
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