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Instead of looking at the wrong model – that of a single state – the EU and its member states should focus on the conditions required for the proper functioning of a currency union that has no common budget to compensate for asymmetric shocks.
The Treaty will be essential not only to the proper functioning of Europe’s institutions, but also to their further “deepening” – something that many call for without necessarily really wanting to achieve.
If the Obama administration and EU officials cannot figure out the proper mix between economic engagement and protecting national security, investment capital from China will go elsewhere.
And, alarmingly, only one in six patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis currently receives proper treatment.
Indeed, the proper functioning of EU institutions requires that no important constituency (left or right, East or West, and so forth) feels left out.
Egyptians’ collective determination will ensure that, in the revolution’s second year, the country will get a new constitution, hold proper presidential elections, and benefit from a functioning and representative parliament.
We should not wonder at the difficulties that other cultural and linguistic groups must experience in gaining a voice and proper acknowledgment in science.
Reaching a proper answer to these questions requires extensive economic modeling, with different variables calculated and regional differences analyzed.
For most of the people surveyed, the costs of voting – including lost wages from time off work, transport to the polling station, and the need to secure proper identification (such as a driver’s license or passport) – were simply too large.
At the same time, local governments’ difficulties are having an adverse effect on provision of clean water and proper sanitation, which are vitally important for polio eradication and public health more broadly.
Conflicts drag on without proper action from the body created to resolve them.
Objections are also voiced against the fact that the Crown Prince’s plan does not mention the right of exiled Palestinians to return to their homes in the West Bank and Gaza, as well as Israel proper, and that Arabs must tailor their diplomatic initiatives to the taste of the American media.
Lately, a new consensus seems to be developing: that emerging-market countries should proceed cautiously with capital market liberalization until they have more of the prerequisites – sound banking systems, proper supervisory structures, and reasonable and transparent accounting and reporting systems – in place.
The Kingdom’s traditional interpretation of Islam construes political legitimacy in terms of a ruler’s proper application of Islamic law.
But, as much as refugees need proper food, shelter, and health care today, they also need the knowledge and tools to build new lives and contribute to society tomorrow, whether in their home country or in a new one.
Yet the UK government has now decided that these long-time British citizens are not citizens at all, because they lack the proper documentation.
The norms of a colonial and militarist regime have begun to infiltrate the governing organs of Israel’s democracy, perverting their proper activities.
Similarly, we should focus on at least halving malnutrition, because there is robust evidence that proper nutrition for young children leads to a lifetime of large benefits – better brain development, improved academic performance, and ultimately higher productivity as adults.
Here the EU can also play a prominent role by recognizing Russia’s special interest in proper pipeline maintenance and a proper accounting for the gas they carry.
The EBRD would safeguard the legitimate interests of all parties (including Russia), ensuring the proper operation and maintenance of the pipelines and overseeing the distribution of transit fees.
But the proper course of action is that taken in Nuremberg, The Hague, Sierra Leone, and after the Bosnian conflict: prosecute those who designed, approved, and implemented the policy of torture and rendition, however high the chain of commission goes – including the lawyers who justified legal perversions that led to torture and murder – rather than targeting those farther down the chain of command.
Given the life-and-death choices involved, the proper choice seems clear.
Short-term pressures will always be present, but they can be overcome with the proper tools: improved pricing of environmental risks, climate-sensitive credit ratings, environmental lender liability, and efforts to mitigate the environmental risks to financial stability.
On the contrary, compared to what is needed (given the current state of the economy) or to what a free-market, flexible-price economy in proper equilibrium would deliver, interest rates are too high and inflation is too low.
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Not only have the wounds of the 1930’s failed to heal, but China and Japan have conflicting visions of Japan’s proper place in Asia and the world.
There would be too many freeloaders and defectors in a purely geopolitical game, but in a two-pronged approach each member state could find its proper place.
This is especially galling in countries where much of the population is poor and deprived of decent schools or proper medical services.
The urgency of the needs, with a billion people lacking access to drinking water and two billion without proper sewer systems, together with the vast number of diseases that result, underscore the need to recognize such a fundamental human right.
The proper response to the outflow of skilled manpower from poor countries, especially those in Africa, is to be found in a different direction.
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