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While reducing such capabilities might seem like an expedient way to cut costs, European governments must not lose sight of their long-term security priorities.
Of course, specific priorities vary by country.
The Right Priorities for the G8In the run-up to the G8 meeting in Scotland on July 6-8, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called on the international community to set the right global priorities, which he has unequivocally stated should be Africa and global warming.
Blair is right in challenging us to set priorities.
While we should accept his challenge, we should also get our priorities right.
Political leaders rarely espouse clear priorities, preferring to seem capable of giving everything to everybody.
But not talking about priorities does not make the need to prioritize go away.
So what should be our top global priorities?
Given that these problems are most acute in Africa, Blair’s priorities have some merit.
Now is the time to get our priorities right.
If we are serious about solving the world’s most serious challenges, we owe it to ourselves to set the right priorities.
Having established itself as the main broker in the conflict, the European Union has many urgent priorities in Georgia itself.
They may mitigate the consequences of peak prices, but they are inadequate to avoiding the recurrence of shocks, which can be accomplished if the G-20 acts on eight priorities.
In both 2008 and 2012, Copenhagen Consensus projects focusing on global development priorities concluded that policymakers and philanthropists should make fighting malnourishment a top priority.
There is also a different order of priorities between weak and strong states.
This distinct genealogy contributed to the fact that after 1989 the real priorities of the Union was not the rapid reunification of Europe but rather deepening integration of its western half, and protecting itself from possible destabilizing effects of radical geopolitical changes.
The re-nationalisation of the priorities of the member states became clear at the Berlin summit earlier this year.
The relatively modest list of concrete priorities issued by Juncker and Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans is a good start.
Though the threat is substantial, it is not immediate, so governments continue to pursue other priorities, allowing the threat to grow, largely out of sight.
At the top of their list of priorities was treatment of tuberculosis, which kills about 80,000 Bangladeshis annually – one in every 11 deaths in the country.
Providing a price list helps elevate the conversation about priorities.
Finally, if anything good comes out of this global financial crisis, it will be a reassessment of our basic values and priorities.
We need to change the standard business model so that incentives and priorities align with responsible corporate citizenship.
Viewed through the traditional ODA prism, with its one-year budgets, public-finance constraints, and competing national priorities, there seems little cause for optimism.
In September, when UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes a summit in New York to renew the drive toward reaching the MDGs, the world leaders in attendance should endorse their use to address MDG priorities in areas other than health.
In this context, South Korea’s traditional linear defense planning – assessing the environment, identifying specific threats, formulating options, evaluating priorities, and defining core objectives, strategy, and policy – may no longer be sufficient.
Policy design has been driven by technocratic considerations that ignored or was simply uninterested in ordinary people’s priorities.
Around the world, citizens are demanding that their governments listen to them about environmental issues and put their needs and priorities first.
When national and municipal governments ask people about their priorities and needs, the answer is clear.
Chile’s government set a precedent in the region by meticulously mapping citizens’ priorities on the environment and climate.
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