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France never engaged enthusiastically in the enlargement process, while the creation of the euro led to serious Franco-German tensions between1993 and 1999.
The other is that they will resort to neither, and that no alternative growth engines will have been started, leading to an extended slowdown with unpredictable political consequences at home and serious economic consequences abroad.
Beyond that, more inclusive growth depends on the completion of the urbanization process that underpins the creation of a modern economy; addressing corruption and unequal access to market opportunities; and aggressively mitigating well-known and serious environmental problems.
Davis’s death sentence was carried out despite serious doubts about whether he was guilty of the crime for which he received it.
None of this bodes well for a serious program of eurozone reform, which would have to include a genuine banking union, a limited fiscal union, and much stronger mechanisms of democratic accountability.
The European Financial Stabilization Facility (EFSF), hurriedly established in May 2010 in an effort to stop the rot, will shortly be able to call on some €500 billion in the event that any more eurozone countries face serious liquidity problems.
Having low to moderate levels of public debt is important, because debt levels that reach 80-90% of GDP become a serious drag on economic growth.
They immobilize fiscal policy, lead to serious distortions in the financial system, trigger political fights over taxation, and incite costly distributional conflicts.
If the world is serious about mitigating the worst effects of climate change, especially its disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities, both the public and private sectors should support efforts to extend microfinancing to SMEs.
With the contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the slow improvement of living conditions for the poor fomenting social tension, a serious backlash is in the making.
To fill a prescription for a drug with a known pharmacogenomic profile, a customer can get rapid genotyping to determine appropriate dose, drug, or predilection for serious side-effects.
True, a freedom agenda will not change people’s attitudes overnight, but if pursued consistently, over time, with bipartisan support in the US – and more constant support in Europe – it will have a chance to make serious headway.
Given the breakdown of the Right, there is a strong chance that Jospin's failure may usher in a period of serious French social upheaval and/or an even stronger rise by the National Front, the most determined enemy of Europe.
As President of the American Economic Association for 2016, I felt a moral obligation to use our annual meeting earlier this month as a setting in which to bring attention to serious economic problems.
Trump’s protectionism-tinged trade policies are likely to take a serious toll on global economic growth.
NATO is currently confronting serious challenges.
But African policymakers confront a serious problem: they do not know how many people they are dealing with, where they live, or how they earn a living.
The result is a profound cleavage that carries serious risks.
We now know that this is wrong, but there was never any serious reason to believe it.
But the debt levels of some European countries relative to their income raise serious questions about whether their bonds really are risk-free.
Not in countries like Czechoslovakia, where the music – more than the posturing – was an expression of serious rebellion.
But at the moment, onerous spending rules and weak financial commitments are tying the hands of those working to prevent the next serious disease outbreak.
Since those occasions, Hollande has been embroiled in a damaging debate about revoking French terrorists’ citizenship; and he committed a serious PR blunder by candidly commenting on the French political scene for a book by two Le Monde journalists, appropriately titled A President Shouldn’t Say That.
At those moments, the EU looks more like the Habsburg empire – a complex vessel of nationalities where satirists joked that the situation was desperate but not serious.
Unless recent trends can be reversed, the growing economic and demographic gulf between India's North and East and its South and West will pose a serious political threat.
That’s why there cannot possibly be a serious Kremlin plan – relying on cyber or other means – to help orchestrate it.
After some years of such a Saudi protectorate over the Palestinians, serious negotiations - more or less based on Crown Prince Abdullah's proposals for an overall agreement - could be re-launched.
What is still needed, however, is sufficient reward money – perhaps $100 million from governments, NGOs, foundations and the pharmaceutical industry – to stimulate serious investment.
On the contrary, the lack of product-focused discussion is symptomatic of a far more serious problem facing businesses of all sizes in nearly every industry.
The Making of a Murder in PakistanThe assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the first Muslim woman to lead a Muslim country, is a serious blow to Pakistan’s prospects for democracy and, indeed, its viability as a state.
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