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Serious crises are defining moments in history.
Thus, a dramatic decline in the real economy, following the collapse of the financial house of cards, will have serious consequences for Germany and the EU.
In fact, doing so could be a serious mistake.
Pulling Europe Back from the BrinkDAVOS – In 2007, the United States caught a serious – and highly contagious – economic cold.
In July, Robert W. Merry wrote that Trump had “yet to score anything approaching a serious legislative victory – or to demonstrate any serious political momentum.”
Even after the international community adopted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, the fossil-fuel industry managed to block meaningful progress – to the point that, if serious action is not taken soon, the entire process could unravel.
After all, disorder there is a serious threat to their security, with Europe at risk owing to its geographical proximity and countries like China and India facing the prospect of energy-supply disruptions.
In 1994, Hobsbawm believed that there could “be no serious doubt that in the late 1980s and early 1990s an era in world history ended and a new one began.”
Overall, then, there is good reason to believe that Trump’s renegotiation has done serious damage indeed.
But a more pertinent thought of his came to mind during those days of decision: war is a serious means to serious ends.
But another point made by Gates is far more serious: lack of political will.
A decision was made to engage militarily in a situation of arguably marginal interest, but now all of the allies must understand that they are using serious means to a serious end.
The Iran deal has turned into one of the most serious crises of trust ever in the United States’ relations with its Middle East allies.
Both sides deeply mistrusted the other, even though the government’s five-point “road map” for a peaceful resolution implicitly acknowledged the existence of serious socioeconomic problems and included an early general election this November – a concession to the protestors, who argue that the government lacks legitimacy because it was never elected.
For the US, this means recognizing Russia for what it is: a large, still-important country with a hybrid political system and serious domestic economic, demographic, and political challenges.
But it is critically important that the new administration pay serious attention to other foreign-policy issues right from the start.
Nowadays, many start-up companies – particularly Internet start-ups – are raising serious amounts of capital for their stones alone.
Instead of highlighting the country’s real needs – serious land reform, an anti-corruption drive, and freeing the economy from oligarchic control – she may instead be drawn into defending an unpopular minority.
But the 2008 global economic crisis, from which the world has yet to recover fully, has cast serious doubt on this approach.
Since it does not include equations or statistical tables, they would argue, it is not serious work that is worthy of scholarly attention.
We can be confident, however, that our knowledge of basic biology will deepen, and that our growing ability to manipulate living organisms will confront us with increasingly serious ethical considerations.
If the global business elite is serious about action on climate change, it should advocate for an international agreement to impose a carbon price on conventional jet fuel, whether via an explicit tax or through a green-fuel mandate requiring a gradually rising proportion of zero-carbon bio or synthetic fuel.
The events of 2007-2009 made it clear that there were serious gaps and inconsistencies that needed to be addressed.
Aside from a few countries in West Africa, it suffers from a serious shortage of energy resources, whether coal or oil or hydroelectric power.
With all of the advanced countries confronting serious fiscal constraints, and emerging markets weakened by lower commodity prices, paying for global public goods has become all the more unappealing.
All of this has taken a serious toll on the region’s marine life.
But the harsh tone publicly adopted by President Barack Obama’s administration raised serious concerns among some in Abe’s government who question Obama’s commitment to the alliance and suspect that he was using the Yasukuni issue as a pretext to signal a weakening of America’s defense commitment.
And both believe that only when China is convinced that such probes will yield no lasting benefit can serious negotiations about a comprehensive security structure for Asia take place.
Australia, too, is grappling with serious droughts in the agricultural heartland of the Murray-Darling River basin.
The Mediterranean Basin, including Southern Europe and North Africa is also likely to experience serious drying as a result of climate change.
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