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Countries compete for investment, talent, growth, and opportunity in a globalized world, and those that are pushed out of the running surrender the greatest prize of all: human development, prosperity, and happiness for their people.
Given Europe’s fiscal deficits and the economic impact of reducing them, that is a huge potential prize.
True, Barroso offered Barrot the symbolic title of Commission Vice-President, but this is a mere consolation prize that doesn't fool anyone.
For Turkey, the biggest prize was the EU’s commitment to lifting visa restrictions on Turkish citizens traveling to the Schengen Area, a move scheduled for June.
The immediate aim was to secure the British position by extending control over the whole of Lower Mesopotamia, although Baghdad was always seen as the ultimate prize.
In 1991, Nadine Gordimer was the first woman in more than a quarter-century to receive the literature prize; now, women receive it every 2-3 years.
Paradoxically, too, the “greening” of America – an America that discovers late but with passion its responsibility for the planet’s survival – may lead to a competitive transatlantic race for first prize in ecological good behavior.
The Cochrane-REWARD prize is working to maximize the use of research funding, an estimated $170 billion of which is wasted each year.
Even if European leaders offer some criticism, this is likely only to highlight deepening divisions in the event that the US doesn’t back them – a consolation prize for Putin.
If an American citizen won some lottery jackpot, she would not care whether her prize dollars were deposited in a bank domiciled in Nevada or New York.
For most countries, trade with the US was the biggest prize, but the fact that the TPP granted access to 40% of the world economy gave the US more bargaining power, not less.
Consider Mexico, where officials were more willing to engage in a conversation about modernizing NAFTA when the prize included US-backed access to Asian economies through the TPP.
We know the challenge is great, but the prize is worth the struggle, and Europe should know that this is our goal.
His group was awarded a major environmental prize from Ford Motor Company in 2006, and in 2008 the Chinese government described him and his organization as “an extremely beneficial supplement to the government’s environmental protection work.”
The possibility of a brighter economic future should be a prize large enough to evoke the same type of leadership through which Europe rose from the ashes of World War II.
In announcing the prize, the committee explained how “the work of the EU represents fraternity between nations.”
That is why the prize has invited comparisons to an Oscar lifetime achievement award that comes only when the recipient is nearing death.
China complained loudly, refused to allow Liu to collect the prize, and even threatened Norway with financial repercussions.
The country’s rural and elderly population – like those in other former Soviet countries – appears to prize economic stability and social order over democratic development.
Nor can he invent his own performance standards – especially if they prize personal loyalty over knowledge and experience.
One casualty is truth: the prize goes to arguments that cement group identity, not to arguments that stick to the facts.
The fifth lesson is that Trump will probably continue to prize loyalty above all else in his administration, just as Berlusconi has.
The prize is a fitting measure of the role that the UN now plays and must continue to play in promoting a successful and peaceful globalization.
One can only guess what the prize would be for finding such a treacherous link.
Indeed, Hirschman’s seminal contributions have now been recognized by the United States Social Science Research Council, which this year established a prize in his honor.
When Liu learned that he had been awarded this year‘s Nobel Peace Prize, his first reaction was telling: “This prize is given to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre.”
Today, many individuals and countries are demonstrating their support for the Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s decision to award the prize to Liu.
Indeed, Havel and a previous laureate, Desmond Tutu, were consistent advocates of awarding the prize to him.
Liu’s prize is a rebuke to the regime, because it rejects the dogma that nothing but the pursuit of economic interest matters.
The Dissident and the MahatmaNEW DELHI – With the Nobel Peace Prize presented this month in the absence of this year’s laureate, the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, it might be wise to think of a man who never won the prize: Mahatma Gandhi.
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