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As the boom turned to bust, the losses threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the Spanish state, and the problem became European, because it threatened the very survival of the euro.
Independence for a small
state
outside of a political and economic group like the EU would be risky nowadays.
What if a region’s secession leaves behind a rump
state
that is no longer viable?
Within the EU, this is less of an issue, given that small states – in theory – still benefit from free trade within the Union; but, outside of the EU, the situation of the remaining
state
can be dire.
If other remedies fail in such a situation, secession might be justified as a last resort, even if it imposes heavy costs on the rump
state.
All states have an interest in stability, so it is hard to imagine that, in the absence of widespread, grave, and undeniable human rights violations, other states would recognize a region that, after being part of a
state
for many centuries, declared itself independent without the acquiescence of the country from which it secedes.
The role of a referendum in a region seeking to secede can therefore only be a form of persuasion aimed at the government of the existing
state.
Bureaucrats must not be allowed to spend the huge donations collected and
state
relief funds allotted in an arbitrary manner.
As we saw in Yugoslavia and are now seeing in the Arab Spring revolts, a multiethnic or multi-religious society and an authoritarian regime can be a recipe for
state
implosion.
Ultimately, the Québécois rebelled against the separatists’ delusion that the
state
from which they wanted to secede would cheerfully serve their interests.
The central
state
always has its own nation-building responsibilities.
Although foreigners often idealize Sweden's welfare state, its economy has been losing ground steadily for 30 years.
But Swedes have shown that still like the welfare
state.
Business Must Listen – and LeadWASHINGTON, DC – Once again business, political, and academic leaders from around the world descended upon Davos for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, where they had much to discuss with respect to the current
state
of the world and how to improve it.
The weakening of World Bank safeguards might also trigger a “race to the bottom,” pitting private or
state
investors, new financing institutions, and a deregulated World Bank against one another, while provoking a popular backlash.
Throughout the region, a history of conflict and a legacy of poor governance have fueled a deep distrust of governments and
state
institutions, as indicated in a 2012 Afrobarometer survey.
And most people are still employed by the
state.
Well, what it meant was to build a state, a democratic
state.
We established democratic institutions, replaced five-year-plans with markets, privatised most
state
assets.
So our task was not only to reconstruct the state, but society too -- its family values, its national traditions and cultural heritage.
When the US – an Arctic
state
with a strong interest in the region – assumed the chairmanship of the Arctic Council in April, it emphasized its readiness to cooperate with all of the organization’s members, including Russia.
The US government regarded non-alignment with distaste;Eisenhower’s secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, notoriously declared that “neutrality between good and evil is itself evil.”
After the supply-side shocks of the 1970s dissolved the Keynesian consensus of the postwar era, and progressive taxation and the European welfare
state
had gone out of fashion, the vacuum was filled by market fundamentalism (also called neoliberalism) of the type championed by Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
One advantage for China, however, in pursuing an FTA strategy is that it is still an authoritarian state, and thus could overrule domestic opposition far more easily than could governments in Japan or South Korea.
On one hand, they want to achieve a comprehensive political solution with the Palestinians based on creating a Palestinian state, in exchange for real, lasting peace.
Stimson warned that “the world in its present
state
of moral advancement compared with its technical development would be eventually at the mercy of such a weapon.
In November 1961, the UN General Assembly declared that “any
state
using nuclear and thermonuclear weapons is to be considered as violating the Charter of the United Nations, as acting contrary to the laws of humanity, and as committing a crime against mankind and civilization.”
Imagine further how, wherever homosexual relationships are lawful, the obstacles to gay and lesbian marriage would vanish if the
state
did not require the spouses to
state
their sex.
A new M5S/League government would most likely demand changes to the EU’s Dublin Regulation, according to which the EU member
state
where an asylum seeker first sets foot is usually responsible for processing his or her claim.
But Obasanjo’s adversaries have joined the battle, and the president lacks the two-thirds majority needed in both the federal and
state
legislatures to remain in power after next year.
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