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Rather than describing current government spending as “austere,” it would be more correct to view it as an end to years of fiscal profligacy, culminating in 2013, when the government’s budget deficit reached 12.3% of GDP and public debt climbed to 175% of GDP.
Adaptation funding from public sources reached $23-26 billion in 2012-2013.
World leaders should recognize this – and establish adaptation as an integral part of the global climate-change agreement to be reached in Paris.
Eurozone leaders’ temptation to revert to earlier, discredited models of European relationships was bearable for a time, but it has now reached the limit of its tolerability.
Central-bank balance sheets have swelled, and policy rates have reached their “near zero” lower bounds.
If no deal is reached, the same imbalance will emerge, only the costs to the UK will be even larger – a reality that British Prime Minister Theresa May, declaring that the UK will walk away from negotiations that don’t go its way, refuses to recognize.
But, three months ago, the Macedonian and Greek governments finally reached an agreement to resolve their bilateral disputes.
Indeed, until a final agreement is reached, Colombian law-enforcement authorities will continue to confront forcefully all illegal armed groups whose members insist on threatening the peace and lives of the Colombian people.
I must hope against hope that the agreement reached in Minsk, unlike the accord signed there in September 2014, succeeds.
Busy with the Sochi Olympics and wary of an international debacle, Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained almost complete public silence as Ukraine’s crisis reached its bloody crescendo.
The housing boom in the United States might never have reached the proportions that it did if homeowners had been unable to treat interest payments on home loans as a tax deduction.
By then, the corpse of one of France’s two major parties, no longer merely supine, had reached an advanced state of decomposition.
In Poland’s case, the annual funding gap, which had to be covered by more government borrowing, reached 2.4% of GDP in 2010.
Since 1999, the accumulated PAYG deficit reached 18% of GDP, about one-third of Poland’s entire government debt.
A long-term alternative requires some capacity to write down debt where it has reached excessive levels.
In fact, support for Trump in Israel reached a record high after his decision to withdraw from the JCPOA, and following Israel’s massive military strike against Iranian targets in Syria.
Juncker might like to think that immigration has since slowed, owing to the agreement that the EU reached with Turkey in early 2016.
In the United States, the 30-year Treasury bond yield reached a record low (since the Federal Reserve series began in 1972) of 2.25% on January 30.
Lobbying was fierce, and is said to have reached into the White House.
The Islamic State’s European StrategyLONDON – Terrorist attacks by Islamic State (ISIS) affiliates and sympathizers over the past year have raised alarms in Europe, but they have not yet reached the frequency Europe experienced in the 1970s, according to the Global Terrorism Database.
As a result of a current-account surplus and an interest-rate differential of 3-4%, foreign reserves reached $70.3 billion by the end of 2002--enough to cover almost 15 months of imports--up from only US$4 billion in 1990.
And in 2016, he reached enough swing-state voters to clinch a victory – a scenario that could well happen again in 2020.
Obviously, neither the US nor Britain has reached that point.
Despite this, at its most recent meeting in November, the ECB continued to describe current interest rates as “still appropriate”-- signaling that the bank has not reached the required threshold for action.
Trade between India and American is increasing, and reached $26 billion (11% of India’s total trade) in 2006.
But the torturous conclusion to this year’s talks in Doha – in which nearly 200 countries agreed to extend the Kyoto protocol – has merely set the stage for more dramatic negotiations in 2015, when a new comprehensive agreement must be reached.
But there was an immediate problem: the existing tax system had reached its limits, and no more revenue could be raised without ending time-honored privileges and immunities.
The fact that the Cold War is over, and that NATO ceases to be geographically defined by the agreements reached by Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Yalta, seemingly so long ago, brings with it the need for the Alliance itself to truly recognize that it has undergone a substantial transformation.
Europe’s Battle on Four FrontsLONDON – With Germany’s election over, Europe has reached the end of a season of continuous political upsets.
This is the point that French voters arguably reached in April when they elected Macron, and a similar turning point is rapidly approaching in Britain, as the risks and contradictions of Brexit become ever clearer.
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