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Yet, as China takes minuscule steps forward, Russia takes giant steps backward.
Moreover, the Lisbon Treaty will probably start being implemented during the French presidency, with nominations for the future EU leadership, including a permanent president, and steps to shape the future European External Action Service, essentially an EU foreign ministry.
Suspicions about Russia’s intentions have lately ballooned, as the country allegedly steps up its aid to the Assad regime, a longtime ally, and calls increasingly loudly for cooperation with the regime to combat the Islamic State.
The UN General Assembly cannot end its 70th session without taking decisive steps toward effective negotiations – and an effective solution.
But Europe can take other steps to redress or adapt to the looming demographic imbalance.
These six steps require a comprehensive and coordinated change in behavior, and will require government at all levels to cooperate, invest at scale, share ideas, replicate best practices, and plan for the long term.
But a newly hired neurosurgeon with 27 years of education may have to read a thick user manual, attend tedious classes, and accept periodic tutoring from a “change champion” to master the various steps required to use his hospital’s IT system.
The Return of RepressionBERLIN – Governments around the world are taking draconian steps to suppress civil-society organizations, with measures ranging from restrictive laws and bureaucratic burdens to smear campaigns, censorship, and outright repression by intelligence agencies or police.
The rich countries, together with China and the Middle East oil exporters do indeed need to take bold steps to help out emerging markets, and the Fund has a useful role to play.
All of the steps taken so far have resulted in more European integration, not less.
This week’s anniversary of UNCLOS is a reminder of the great things that countries can accomplish when they work together – and of the significant steps that remain.
It would also facilitate a return by Congress to more normal economic governance – whether passing an annual budget, something not accomplished in four years, or finally taking steps to enhance rather than impede growth and job creation.
These steps would go a long way toward erecting safeguards that create a more stable system.
Yet what of Portugal, Ireland, and (especially) Spain, all of which have taken significant steps toward reform since the crisis?
But, when it comes to the banks, I am afraid that the eurozone’s leaders are contemplating some inappropriate steps.
But unless officials of all the countries involved, including the United States, admit that Afghanistan is dangerous and unprepared to absorb the Big Return, they cannot start taking steps to remedy the situation and guarantee that repatriations will be both safe and voluntary.
Either it could take steps to boost tax revenues, such as by improving property-tax collections (currently extremely low), or it could reduce the level of any basic income it introduces.
Early steps toward interest-rate liberalization and hints of reform of the antiquated hukou (residential permit) system are also encouraging.
Though these measures are certainly positive steps, no country acting alone can ensure adequate protection of shark populations.
Though steps toward democracy are possible, when the euphoria of the moment passes, political contenders will realize that, if only in self-defense, they must restrict their opponents’ freedoms.
This drive for peace remained, quietly, the key motivation behind further steps toward Europe’s economic integration, which was regarded as the vehicle for achieving political integration.
For half a century, the process of European integration proceeded – sometimes with setbacks, sometimes with giant steps forward – joining formerly separate markets by creating very close trade relations.
Turkey’s Nation of FaithsANKARA – After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities, and thus to guarantee that the rule of law is applied equally for all Turkish citizens, regardless of individuals’ religion, ethnicity, or language.
The authorities have taken many other historically and symbolically important steps as well.
At the Millennium Assembly in 2000, the US promised to pursue reduction of global poverty, yet it has taken few steps in that direction.
But the reforms needed to make these countries eligible for membership can and should be accelerated, with interim steps that have credibility with the region’s people.
The US can take four practical steps to help negotiations move forward immediately.
The EU needs a comprehensive regional approach, focusing on the remaining steps that would lead each country towards membership.
It is vital that Trump takes these steps quickly, so that his administration can hit the ground running.
That list includes, just in the last few weeks, America’s loss of its sacred AAA rating; its political flirtation with a debt default; mounting concern about debt restructurings in peripheral European economies and talk about a possible eurozone breakup; and Switzerland’s dramatic steps to reduce (yes, reduce) its safe-haven status.
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