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In principle, no human in this day and age should die from rabies, and yet, according to a 2015 study, the virus kills 59,000 people annually.
Remarkably, Greece’s creditors seem unable to appreciate this sound financial principle.
Issuing Eurobonds would mean replacing the current eurozone strategy of “every man for himself” with one based on the principle “all for one and one for all,” which would enable joint borrowing by euro countries.
Kohl's unease with Nato enlargement became visible in January 1994, when Nato's leaders accepted the principle of enlargement.
They established the principle that their new fiscal agency, the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF), should be responsible for solvency problems, but they failed to increase the EFSF’s size.
Perhaps most worryingly, Europe finally recognized the principle – long followed by the IMF – that countries in bailout programs should not be penalized on interest rates, but the same principle was not extended to countries that are not yet in bailout programs.
To that end, the OECD will focus this week not just on defending the principle of international cooperation, but also on discussions about what must be improved.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in her customary prudent and deliberate manner, has emerged as the most effective champion of those values, making it clearer than ever before that demonstrating respect and dignity for all is a core principle of the European Union.
The ECB governing council has already agreed, in principle, to use the first of these policy tools.
This reversal became apparent in June, when Britons – including those who benefit significantly from the existing open economic and financial system – voted to leave the European Union, based on what might be called the sovereignty principle.
As a general principle, liberal centrists are strongly in favor of the international movement of people and goods.
In principle, foreign demand, especially in high-growth emerging markets, could make up some of the difference.
But customers received only a small saucer for this feast, and the principle of the smorgasbord - all you can eat - was jettisoned.
France also agreed -- in principle -- with other NATO members on the creation of multinational forces, such as the one organized to separate the warring parties in Bosnia, and on the idea of a "European defense identity," implying reactivation of the European Defense Union, created in 1955 but dormant since.
It emphatically reaffirmed the principle of non-interference in states' internal affairs and this principle's primacy over the rights of individuals enshrined in Article 1 of the Charter.
The non-aligned movement also stood for the principle of including in the UN, as a matter of right, all sovereign countries.
Walter Hallstein, the first president of the European Commission, repeatedly stressed that the union is based on the principle of a community of nations under the rule of law (Rechtsgemeinschaft).
In principle, the Commission ought to be slimmed down after enlargement, with fewer Commissioners than member states.
It seems evident that this principle will be effectively binding on all member states, and all candidates for membership.
This is as much a matter of principle as of cold, strategic calculation, and it is here where the ESDP has much to offer: a long-term view, supported by a powerful economy with the assets needed to carry out humanitarian operations, conflict prevention, crisis management, and security support.
The main distinction between the two is that capital is something you can buy, own, sell, and, in principle, accumulate without limit, as the super-rich have done.
In principle, there are four ways to do something meaningful about the refugee problem.
The ECB also pays interest on deposits, so it, too, can in principle prevent higher reserves from leading to an unwanted lending explosion.
In principle, the answer is straightforward.
But at a time when the European Union is making large integrationist strides forward, in the shape of the single currency and the negotiations that will begin on expansion eastward, it must in principle be obvious to any democrat that there must be some counterbalancing strengthening of the democratic factor.
This is why this week’s attempted censure vote in the European Parliament should not be deplored as a reckless act of irresponsibility, but should rather be recognised for what it is, and therefore welcomed, as a necessary and unavoidable act in support of the democratic principle.
If the democratic principle is not strengthened, it is most unlikely that the European Union will be able to deal satisfactorily with any of the massive challenges lying immediately ahead: making a success of the Single Currency, revising the Union’s spending policies, and reforming the Union’s existing policies and institutions.
But the Commission cannot in the long run be vigorous unless the Union’s democratic principle is strengthened.
Even when Americans and Europeans agree in principle, such as on trade, this does not always translate into practice.
The treaties signed in 1648 concluded nearly a century of religious warfare by enshrining the principle of cuius regio, eius religio (“whose realm, his religion”).
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