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But the greatest obstacle that must be confronted if Russia is to wage war on terror effectively is the rampant corruption in the security forces.
The more important obstacle is Germany’s reluctance to admit publicly that ECB liquidity support for government debt markets can be crucial in maintaining financial stability.
A demand of this kind was not made of Egypt or Jordan when Israel signed peace agreements with those countries, and it constitutes an entirely useless obstacle on the road to peace with the Palestinians.
His All Holiness also said that the real obstacle is probably “the deep state” — a reference to Turkey’s Kemalist state establishment that considers itself above any elected government and democratic law.
The absence of a European public sphere presents an obstacle to such a discussion.
The main obstacle to an agreement has been insufficient political will on the part of the US to push for the needed compromise.
The greatest obstacle to implementing such a strategy is the EU’s largest economy and its putative leader: Germany.
The main obstacle is that German politicians remain mired in a “can’t do” mode.
In fact, those who advance this view – which is the most powerful obstacle to radical ECB action – have their analysis upside down.
Kemalism always saw the Ottoman legacy as a burden, an obstacle to modernization.
Egypt’s major obstacle is Hamas’s insistence on an end to the Israeli siege and targeted killings as part of a ceasefire agreement.
Before the crisis hit, however, redistribution of wealth (and the tax and social security payments that make it possible) was considered the biggest obstacle to economic efficiency.
Particularly by guaranteeing highly indebted countries’ sovereign bonds, the ECB has actually weakened the willingness to reform, particularly in the larger European Union countries, whose decrepit economic structures are an obstacle to potential growth, and where more room must be given to private initiative.
AlsoMoreover, the European public itself has become a formidable obstacle to reform, because it has developed a vested interest in cheap prices for medical services.
But Mexico’s real obstacle is a political system unable to achieve any consensus on essential economic reforms.
Young people view the regime as outdated, and Putin himself as an obstacle to the changes – such as increased investment in social programs – needed to raise living standards.
Belarusians currently pay €60 for an EU tourist visa, which is a major obstacle in view of low wages.
Another obstacle to a peace agreement has been the division between Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Fatah-controlled West Bank.
In the latest round of negotiations, however, this division has not been a major obstacle, because Hamas remained on the sidelines – neither participating nor seeking to play a spoiler role.
So the Soviet authorities moved to eliminate this obstacle through forced collectivization of agriculture.
Because excessive entry regulation serves no other purpose, reforming governments should act: eliminate the obstacle course.
But progress is slow, and Brexit is a further obstacle.
A different obstacle appears on the Israeli side, where any territorial concessions must be ratified, according to a law passed in the waning days of the Netanyahu government (and recently toughened), by a referendum.
But there is a major obstacle to easing tensions: the proposed $6.5 billion sale by the United States to Taiwan of 30 Apache attack helicopters and 330 Patriot missiles.
This might prove to be an insurmountable obstacle to realizing the Obama administration’s vision of a nuclear-weapons-free world.
That failure remains the main obstacle to addressing the many other outstanding problems between the parties to the conflict.
But, assuming that the obstacle thrown up by Ireland’s voters can be overcome, experience has shown that the EU’s future evolution will be marked by increasingly centralized power in Brussels and the retreat of individual states.
But these features constitute an obstacle to the Socialists’ becoming the party of government, and were reflected in their electoral program, which was full of uncertainty and indifferent with respect to Europe and the broader international context.
But none of these proved a serious obstacle to China’s long boom.
In addition, the controversy over who should rule Western Sahara remains an obstacle to full normalisation of Algerian-Moroccan relations.
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