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This is especially true in countries with fragile political systems.
As long as these gaps persist, women will not be able to aspire to political and economic power on an equal footing with men.
These are the thorny problems, which combine political, strategic, religious and symbolic issues that transcend the human dimensions of what is to happen to the populations - Jewish and Arab - involved.
The weakening political positions of the leaders complicates matters even more.
But the Palestinians want all the settlers to leave, a political impossibility for any Israeli government.
First, there are political and structural risks to the EU if more member states leave.
The second doom loop applies to the UK’s domestic political economy.
The sect holds the northern political and religious elite in contempt, and does not recognize the authority of the Sultan of Sokoto, leader of Nigerian Muslims.
Indeed, they blame northern political and religious leaders for the region’s mounting economic and political problems, and have killed several in the past two years.
Ultimately, everything depends on individual member states’ political will.
The first is loyalty within the European People’s Party (EPP), a faction of center-right national political parties in the European Parliament.
The political winds in Europe are not blowing left.
As a result, disillusioned and disaffected voters in advanced economies are challenging established political parties to find solutions or cede power, while millions of people from poor countries, unable to envision a future at home, are risking their lives by crossing deserts and seas in search of economic opportunity.
Just as Obama and Brown led the way then, German Chancellor Angela Merkel must respond purposefully and powerfully to the widening divide between rich and poor, which has become an acute danger to the world economy, and to social cohesion and political stability.
The EU and CELAC heads of state can – and should – forge a close alliance and capitalize on favorable political conditions to advance a progressive climate agenda, one that mandates their negotiators to push for a fair, equitable, and ambitious agreement in December.
They are understandably reluctant to expend too much political capital by calling for a far-reaching deal.
Rebuilding the Asylum SystemNEW YORK – The European Union needs to accept responsibility for the lack of a common asylum policy, which has transformed this year’s growing influx of refugees from a manageable problem into yet another political crisis.
Its three pillars – private, voluntary associations, decentralization of the state, delegation political power to independent entities – can only be rebuilt patiently.
In the ten years of postcommunist transition our new political elites take either an apathetic stance towards rebuilding civil society or actively oppose it.
At the root of the argument that civil society is an attack on the political system, we find the well known unwillingness to share power.
Nonsense: political parties, democratic institutions, work well only when they draw strength and inspiration from a developed, pluralist civic environment and are exposed to criticism from that environment.
It is not the intention of civil society to circumvent parliament or political parties: it aims to enable them to work to the best of their ability.
Without a life-giving background in the form of a diversely structured civil society, political parties as well as political institutions wither, lose inventiveness, and are eventually reduced to dull, closed groups of political professionals.
To rely solely on the capacities of central state authorities or of central political bodies to always decide what needs to be done and how, equates power with truth, the most dangerous political conceit of this century.
Civil society protects citizens from being excessively affected by changes at the center of political power.
In this way, it actually facilitates political change so that a change of government does not seem a windstorm leaving nothing in its place.
South Korean leaders spent a lot of domestic political capital negotiating the KORUS, and they were willing to do that because they trusted the US to act in good faith.
A Customs Union for the BalkansThe fall of Milosevic does not cure the political woes of the Balkans; indeed, it raises their urgency.
Improved economic prospects and the strengthening of institutions, in turn, would have a positive impact on the political climate throughout the Balkans.
Despite the Iranian opposition’s continuing efforts to contest the outcome and advance political liberalization, Ahmadinejad and his allies have largely succeeded in consolidating their hold on power by using brute force to repress the reform movement.
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