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On migration, for example, it must work as one to strengthen its own borders, while helping, through development assistance and security cooperation, the countries from which people are fleeing.
For example, the US could strengthen the review processes carried out by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
That would only jeopardize the operations and strengthen the enemy.
On the contrary, it will strengthen the euro and thus exacerbate the competitiveness problems of the south.
It is bound to strengthen anti-European sentiment.
Most notably, the EU has tripled the budget of Operation Triton, designed to strengthen border security; launched an EU-wide naval operation against human smugglers and traffickers in the Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR Med); and allocated additional funds to overwhelmed frontline member countries.
At the same time, efforts are needed to strengthen deterrence near and en route to Europe’s borders, through partnerships with major source and transit countries.
The only alternatives to a Jamaica coalition are a CDU/CSU minority government or a new election next spring, which would probably only strengthen the AfD’s position.
A unique opportunity to strengthen the world’s financial infrastructure and increase economic efficiency for many years to come could be slipping away.
Indeed, he insists that the government’s job is to strengthen civil society based on the rule of law.
In fact, his efforts to strengthen Ethiopia’s health system played a crucial role in more than doubling the percentage of Ethiopian women with access to contraception, and in reducing maternal mortality by 75%.
The fear is that weakening Assad will strengthen ISIS, and that a Syria overrun by ISIS would be worse for the West, for other countries in the Middle East, and arguably for Syrians.
In the meantime, US forces must support Iraqi efforts to strengthen the country’s own military and security forces, while simultaneously disbanding all militias.
Elsewhere, it is right to strengthen South Korean and Japanese defenses, but obviously wrong to threaten a nuclear war.
This brings me to the third, and most fundamental, factor that is likely to cause the euro to strengthen substantially from its current level: global economic conditions require the eurozone to have a substantial trade and current-account deficit so that it becomes a large net importer of funds from the rest of the world.
Whether America is able to strengthen its global influence in the future will depend not so much on its moral esteem, but on the extent to which it succeeds in revamping its economy and forging new alliances.
For example, it would strengthen the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program’s transport and trade facilitation strategy, which operates under the auspices of the Asian Development Bank with contributions from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.
Putting America’s Recovery to WorkBERKELEY – America’s economy grew much more rapidly than expected in 2013 and appears poised to strengthen further this year.
It is working hard to strengthen ties to South and Central America, both diplomatically and through energy politics.
Righting China’s Property RightsNEW YORK – China recently adopted new guidelines to strengthen protection of property rights.
Even so, to be responsive to Xi’s call to strengthen and expand existing SOEs, it makes sense for the guidelines’ drafters to propose more measures to minimize risks stemming from poor corporate governance.
But eurozone members that currently benefit from exceptionally low borrowing costs – Germany, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, and, to a lesser extent, France – maintain that Italian and Spanish borrowing costs largely reflect these countries’ failure to reform their economies and strengthen their public finances.
What US authorities should do is strengthen protections for the overnight money market for US Treasuries, which aren’t subject to panics and bubbles, while rolling back most of the legal advantages enjoyed by short-term, overnight financing of mortgage-backed securities.
The Meiji Restoration created a powerful military under the slogan “Enrich the country and strengthen the military.”
It is pointless to attempt to divine whether China’s effort to establish the AIIB reflects a desire to strengthen its global standing or is aimed only at advancing the country’s narrowly defined commercial interests.
The EU has an agency called Frontex to coordinate and strengthen national border-control policies.
While these resources have helped to finance budget shortfalls, stabilize reserves, and calm nervous markets, they have not been sufficiently leveraged to improve the policy framework, strengthen implementation of public investment projects, or, more generally, put the transition countries on an inclusive and sustainable growth path.
If China doesn’t allow the renminbi to strengthen, other emerging markets will remain wary of letting their currencies appreciate too much and lose competitiveness.
This was made clear in the preamble to the Treaty of Rome more than 40 years ago: "...pooling their resources to preserve and strengthen peace and liberty....".
This proves the point: European integration is first and foremost an instrument to preserve and strengthen peace and liberty.
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