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He persuaded the European Union and the United
States
to allow continued UN oversight in Kosovo while gradually permitting self-governance – all without triggering dangerous confrontations with the two
states
which oppose its breakaway, Serbia and its close ally, Russia.
He tackled the issue at the Bali Conference of 2007, made it one of his central concerns at the UN, and will attempt to forge a new agreement among all global
states
at the UN Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Ban, in turn, has openly chastised member
states
for not giving him sufficient resources.
Adjusting for the lack of data from
states
like North Korea, Yemen, and Zimbabwe, the total cost of eradicating poverty based on the latest available data appears to be somewhat less than $100 billion actual dollars.
That first war among socialist
states
shattered the myth of inviolable “fraternal” bonds between the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Eastern Europe.
Countries should draw on the example of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, a successful program of collaboration on nuclear security among the United States, Russia, and ex-Soviet
states.
Though Kazakhstan’s government, like other young
states
in the region, has lagged in advancing democracy and human rights, it has at least avoided foreclosing them entirely.
But those campaigning for Brexit overlook the fact that Europe has become a truly open free market, something that the UK has always wanted, and that the UK was one of the few EU member
states
not to limit the entry of workers after the EU’s eastward expansion of 2004.
The most visible concession he was able to obtain in negotiations with the EU’s other 27 member
states
is an agreement to limit access to social benefits for citizens residing in a country different from their own.
There is also a different order of priorities between weak and strong
states.
Adding to Africa’s story of divergence will be continued political fragility in a number of states, including the Central African Republic, Burundi, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Somalia.
Given that infrastructure investment is a key element of his agenda, and that devolution of powers to the
states
is popular among US Republicans, there certainly seems to be space for such an approach.
The US has supported police
states
in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Central Asia, because the alternative is thought to be worse.
The greater the repression that religious parties face in secular police states, the more extreme their politics are likely to become.
Would
states
have reintroduced trade barriers, ending the single market?
The gap in per-capita income of the EU15 (the membership prior to the accession of mainly post-communist
states
in 2004) relative to the United
States
– taken as a reference in many targets – is unchanged at 30-40%, depending on the adjustment to purchasing power parity.
The so-called “blue-card” process has so far been largely unsuccessful, because there was no incentive for individual
states
to coordinate their policies.
The member
states
do not seem ready to make the necessary reforms and bear the costs of enlargement.
The re-nationalisation of the priorities of the member
states
became clear at the Berlin summit earlier this year.
The negotiations on the so-called 'Agenda 2000' were marked by squabbling between the member
states
defending their vested interests.
The candidate states, on the other hand, have, in order to qualify for membership of the EU, to swallow 80 000 pages of rules and regulations known as the 'acquis communautaire'.
Nor is this straitjacket of regulations the best way to equip free market economies to compete if parts of it are not implemented by existing member
states
themselves.
Yet, they are authoritatively imposed as a condition sine qua non for new candidate
states
feeding frustration and potential resentment in Central Europe in a process where the ends seem to have been confused with the means.
Failed
states
of south eastern Europe are being transformed into formal or informal protectorates implying deep involvement of Europe in the creation of security for the whole region.
Governments of the member
states
have no desire to see a weakening of the Commission.
The outgoing President, Jacques Santer, had been prime minister of Luxembourg; but the original choice of the member
states
five years ago, until vetoed for stupid reasons by British prime minister John Major, had been Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgium’s prime minister.
There is only one answer: the losers, in this crisis, can only be the member states; either directly; or indirectly, through the weakening of the independence of “their” national Commissioners.
What is clear, is that EU member
states
do not have an inspiring political project of their own in mind.
First and foremost were the referenda on marijuana legalization in the US
states
of Colorado and Washington on November 6.
Just as important, however, was President Barack Obama’s reaction to the Colorado and Washington votes – both
states
that he won easily in his re-election bid.
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