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In Britain, in particular, the spectacular surge of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) can only strengthen the government's long-standing latent Euroskepticism.
The real question is whether Europe retains the political will to continue to do so, and whether EU countries can strengthen the institutions necessary to reap the full benefits of financial markets.
The adverse distributive effects of market-based finance may serve to further strengthen anti-market forces in Europe, especially in southern Europe.
To minimize that risk, euro-area countries must fundamentally re-work and strengthen the institutional architecture for coordinating long overdue structural reforms and for safeguarding public finances.
Surplus countries, too, must adopt measures to strengthen the domestic economy by creating incentives for investment and employment.
Without structural reforms to strengthen employment and growth, even the most earnest efforts to foster recovery will come to nothing both economically and politically.
Expanding such channels, especially during a period of potential political change, will strengthen US leverage.
SOFIA – At a time when the ongoing European debt crisis is fracturing public faith in the continent’s political and economic institutions, one would expect Europe’s leaders to strengthen as many unifying symbols as they can.
Russia Stays HomeMADRID – Just three days before his return to the Kremlin as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin met behind closed doors at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, outside Moscow, with US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, who was there to transmit President Barack Obama’s renewed determination to strengthen cooperation with Russia.
To be sure, the first part of the move was probably motivated largely by the desire to strengthen markets’ role in setting the exchange rate, which promises to boost long-term stability and improve the renminbi’s chances of becoming a global reserve currency.
But, as the recent devaluation showed, the shift, coming after years of efforts to strengthen the renminbi, could fuel a sharp increase in volatility in world currency markets.
Given the scale of these challenges, we have no choice but to cooperate internationally and strengthen global and regional institutions and frameworks such as the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the G20, which will meet in Hangzhou, China, next month.
Of course, when Obama arrives in Beijing, he must continue to strengthen cooperation with China.
To strengthen this new institutional balance, Sarkozy is considering providing the opposition with a formal status, thus turning it into a real alternative power, and he wants to review the constitution’s Article 16, which gives excessive power to the president in times of crisis.
A special report on semiconductors – essential to US national security and economic competitiveness – for President Barack’s Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) provides some answers.The report, written by a nonpartisan group of business and academic leaders (I was a member), proposed that the US work with its allies to enforce international law, push China to comply with its World Trade Organization obligations, and strengthen export controls and inward investment restrictions.
The report, written by a nonpartisan group of business and academic leaders (I was a member), proposed that the US work with its allies to enforce international law, push China to comply with its World Trade Organization obligations, and strengthen export controls and inward investment restrictions.
The key issue is to convince governments of NATO member states – especially the Europeans – to improve their awareness of the current and future challenges and to strengthen their political resolve to implement some of the recommendations.
To make this case, health-care providers will need to improve their collection and analysis of data on surgical outcomes, which would increase transparency on mortality and morbidity and strengthen overall accountability.
Populist politicians who happen to be in office (think Donald Trump or pro-Brexit Tories) will claim credit for the recovery, and that will strengthen their political hand.
In view of this, it is essential to seek better systems of checks and balances as well as to strengthen and sharpen public control of the executive.
After the 2008 financial crisis – a crisis that unambiguously originated in the US – the safe-haven effect caused the dollar to strengthen as capital inflows rose.
It is now equally important to strengthen the moderate members of the new Ukrainian government and to reduce the influence of right-wing nationalists who would trample on the rights of Russian-speaking Ukrainians.
Europe must also strengthen its financial footing.
Other actions are taken by citizens “from below,” to give a voice to excluded groups, improve access to voting, and strengthen democratic processes.
Such a government would have taken more action to strengthen levees.
That task has already begun, and the LDP’s recent election victory will strengthen Abe’s ability to complete it.
Bridging the Transatlantic Digital DivideBRUSSELS – On September 8, after four years of painstaking negotiations, representatives of the United States and the European Union initialed a transatlantic agreement to strengthen data protection.
Most significantly, Italy is leading an effort to repair relations with Russia after the Ukraine confrontation and to strengthen cooperation over Syria.
China’s moves to strengthen its African ties have three objectives: to consolidate secure energy and mineral supplies, to curtail Taiwan’s influence on the continent (which harbours six of the 26 countries with which it maintains full diplomatic relations), and to augment China’s burgeoning global authority.
Trump has promised to strengthen the US military and national-security regime, and to aggressively pursue the Islamic State and jihadist threats around the world.
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