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Add to that the destabilizing effects of Brexit and a US president who is openly hostile toward the EU (and supportive of Brexit and Le Pen), and the stakes of the upcoming elections become starkly apparent.
The stakes could hardly be higher.
As the review research shows, the stakes of inaction on antimicrobial resistance are high.
The stakes are great, as economic growth and social cohesion depend on getting this right.
The Governments would then turn around and sell their stakes in the banks, seeking foreign as well as domestic investors.
Making matters worse, national and European leaders have allowed – even encouraged – citizens to believe that integration is inevitable, lowering the stakes for European elections.
To be sure, President Vladimir Putin has outlined some important constraints on these potential sales: the government will not sell majority stakes; the deals cannot be financed by loans from state-owned banks; and the buyers cannot be registered outside of Russia’s jurisdiction.
Putin’s insistence that the government will retain majority stakes in state-owned companies has helped in securing the cooperation of CEOs like Sechin, as it assuages incumbent managers’ concern about a shake-up at the top.
Of course, this approach will also weaken the privatization plan’s structural impact; but even the sale of minority stakes promises to improve transparency and corporate governance.
And, by not privatizing the majority stakes, the government may also fail to enhance economic efficiency.
The stakes on this issue have now been raised two notches higher.
The chancellor played for high stakes, seemingly against the odds, and hit the jackpot.
It raised the stakes for the island’s pro-independence camp and increased the risk of a cross-Strait military conflict.
The stakes are now so high that the struggle may reach a turning point.
With the EU’s survival on the line, the stakes are higher than in any election in the history of the Fifth Republic.
The stakes for Indonesia are high.
The commercial stakes are growing as it becomes possible to test for predisposition to common diseases such as breast cancer and heart disease where the potential market is immense.
The stakes are too high for it not to try.
So the stakes for the IMF, which is charged with ensuring global financial stability, are high: if other countries eventually lose confidence in an increasingly indebted US, the potential disturbances in the world’s financial markets would be massive.
In fact, he opposes all kinds of cross-shareholding arrangements, which enable families with minority stakes to maintain control over their empires.
The stakes could not be higher – or the prospects more exciting.
Shaky Cyber Trigger FingersVIENNA – A media storm centered on the “emerging cyber threat” has turbocharged the public debate on cyber security in the United States – and raised the stakes in bilateral relations with China.
The choice in Copenhagen will be stark, and the stakes could not be higher.
So the stakes in righting the world economy could not be higher.
In Russia, employees have been awarded majority stakes in newly privatized state enterprise.
The stakes could be even higher in Mexico.
For all the parties involved, including the coalition government and its Western allies, the stakes are much too high for a return to “business as usual.”
For Europe, the stakes over the Greek debt crisis could hardly have been higher.
But now he is playing for higher stakes.
The stakes could hardly be greater.
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