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In the Baltic states, people are increasingly worried that geopolitical competition over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany will affect writers’ freedom of speech to opine on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime.

For a half-century, any book that was critical of the communist regime was banned in the Baltic states and was not published in Finland, either.

Within an integrated economy, there are divergent categories of actors, such as creditors and debtors, or manufacturers and agricultural producers, the combination of which can affect the outlook of states and regions.

These representatives know that their states are net winners of the union, ultimately benefiting from giving two dollars to some of the weaker states for every dollar that they pay in federal taxes.

School revenues slumped, and from 1974 to 1979, California fell from ninth place to 44th among the 50 US states in per capita spending on public high schools, with California’s students soon slipping down the rankings as well.

The worry is that such a council could legislate in ways “friendly” to neighboring states, which might compromise Japan’s national security dramatically.

At the G-20 summit in early September, for example, US President Barack Obama struggled to convince ten states to sign a declaration on Syria that did not even mention the use of force.

But this new, bottom-up framework, in which states determine the conditions for a multilateral agreement, lacks an authority to establish standards.

Japan’s diplomatic isolation strengthens those in the Chinese leadership who have long sought to marginalize what is economically and militarily still Asia’s most powerful nation, while sucking other states in the region deeper into China’s shadow.

This is a high-stakes issue, as it will determine the capacity of states to remain fiscally solvent in increasingly digital economies.

Nonetheless, the Republicans hold a slight majority in the Senate, where each state is represented by two senators, regardless of the size of its population, because they tend to win their seats in less populous states, whereas Democrats prevail in the major coastal and Midwestern states.

Indeed, at the EU level, the divisions and debates among national governments came to the fore as leaders struggled to reach an agreement on a quota system for the distribution of refugees among member states.

Another notable feature of the election was Jonathan’s concession to Buhari, which came as the results from Nigeria’s 36 states began to trickle into the election commission’s headquarters in the capital.

With wide support in the north, as well as votes from the Yoruba southwest and several states in the middle of the country, Buhari was able to carry the day.

We need a single legislative council, a bicameral European Parliament, with one house representing member states, and the other the European electorate.

The tax package is primarily about redistribution from middle-income households – particularly those in high-tax, Democratic-leaning states such as New York and California – to the richest Americans.

And Latin America is the first or second most important trading partner for 37 of the 50 US states.

In other words, weak, unstable, corrupt, and poor states are states where women’s status is low.

Vertical subsidiarity concerns the distribution of powers among different levels of government and sovereignty: the EU, national states, regions, and municipalities.

The Stability and Growth Pact must remain the cornerstone of the EU’s budgetary framework, and effective surveillance and peer support will be vital to help member states work towards balanced budgets once the economy rebounds.

Of course, that some rogue states ratify human rights treaties should not call the treaty system as a whole into doubt.

We cannot yet fully grasp its implications, but it is fundamentally transforming the nature of power in the twenty-first century, in which all states exist in an environment that even the most powerful authorities cannot control as they did in the past.

While the information revolution could, in principle, reduce large states’ power and increase that of small states and non-state actors, politics and power are more complex than such technological determinism implies.

Governments and large states still have more resources than information-empowered private actors, but the stage on which they play is more crowded.

States, too, should be held accountable for their deeds – hence, in 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

With EU member states failing to agree on how to secure external borders, much less what to do with the refugees who have already arrived, an effective, unified response has proved elusive.

Most urgently, the wealthy Gulf states should provide more funding to the countries that are hosting the most refugees, thereby enabling them to begin improving living conditions for those seeking safety.

Even if all of this is achieved, a truly sustainable solution to the refugee crisis will not come until Syria is at peace, and order is restored in failing states across the Middle East.

Islamist terrorism, savage conflicts in the Middle East, failing states, and the refugee crisis imply risks for all Europe.

The ECB’s decisions lead to a massive redistribution of wealth and risk among the eurozone’s member states, as well as from stable countries’ taxpayers, who have little stake in the crisis, to global investors directly affected by it.

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