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Bringing in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia would strengthen stability in the Baltic area, because the rules of the game would be crystal clear to everyone, both with regard to security and to human and minority rights.
For Europe’s task is to maintain and strengthen structures of cooperation that retain the advantages of diversity and independence without reviving the old curse of the European nation state: xenophobia, bloodshed, and war.
By allowing private-sector participation in debt-equity swaps, China could kill three birds with one stone: advance SOE deleveraging, strengthen corporate governance in the state sector, and enhance economic efficiency.
And we need to strengthen our civilian and military capabilities and boost their funding in order to back up our political decisions.
The consultations on the strategy and its endorsement have raised expectations that the Bank will intensify its assistance to countries to help them strengthen their good governance efforts.
They must make the management of their utilities more transparent, strengthen regulations, and increase public spending on energy infrastructure.
Despite important ideological and political disagreements with the Islamists, the young nationalists hoped that alliance would strengthen their hand against the Old Guard and increase pressure on the Israelis.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and it seems pointless to work to strengthen the Democratic links of the chain of fiscal advice when the Republican links are not just weak but absent.
They now need capital and investment to strengthen their tradable-goods sectors.
But the US also wants to defend and strengthen the principles that made post-war Asia’s success possible – what former US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell calls Asia’s “operating system.”
Likewise, a reform program cannot be implemented if inequality, poverty, and social frustration strengthen extremist political parties, such as Greece's overtly fascist Golden Dawn party or France's far-right, anti-Europe National Front, which now boasts 25% electoral support.
A successful single currency will deliver extra impetus to the dynamic of political integration in the EU, and will strengthen Europe’s role as the holder of a leading international currency on par with the dollar.
Such an approach would strengthen Syriza’s position in debt-relief negotiations.
It is heartening that several Nigerian senators have recently been in the forefront of efforts to strengthen the rule of law in the oil sector.
After all, only the ingrained habit of playing second fiddle to the US prevents EU members from clearly and loudly distancing themselves from Israel's repressive interferences on the West Bank and Gaza, even though such a stance would help strengthen the commitment of Arab states to the coalition against terrorism as well as provide a useful shove to American diplomacy.
A humanitarian, by contrast, may want to feed a population, knowing full well that food aid could strengthen the oppressive regime.
New social and political movements and structures are emerging, power is shifting, and there is hope that democratic processes will strengthen and spread across the Arab world in 2012.
The third challenge, instrumental to meeting the first two, will be to strengthen regional Arab solidarity.
Japan is right to be concerned about China’s new regional assertiveness, and Abe’s recent diplomatic push to strengthen Japan’s relations in Southeast Asia, and with Australia and India, is understandable in that context.
The risk today is that the increasingly hardline “America First” approach taken by the US will strengthen China’s own hardliners, who will push to emphasize national security over continued reform and opening up.
To strengthen its position further, China has encouraged its companies to bid for outright purchase of strategic ports, where possible.
We need to enable countries like Egypt and Tunisia – and possibly a peaceful Libya – to strengthen their political stability through democratization.
The aim was to strengthen cooperation as a means of creating a lasting peace.
One proposal worth considering is to upgrade and strengthen the European Investment Bank’s Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership (FEMIP), which would become an autonomous institution, perhaps headquartered in the Middle East or North Africa, with shares held by the region’s governments (or other institutions) and other willing parties.
Wherever industrialization has occurred, it has reliably improved economic diversification and helped to nurture, strengthen, and uphold the conditions for competitive growth and development.
Sustainability in the Trump EraCOPENHAGEN – The forces fighting global warming and battling to strengthen environmental protection must brace for heavy collateral damage as a result of Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election.
That means concentrating on mobilizing the forces that can strengthen the case for America to remain part of the global move toward environmental sustainability.
Instead, regions and countries are quietly finding their own ways to manage finance, create pooled emergency funds, and strengthen development finance – an outcome that heralds a more fragmented and decentralized set of regulatory regimes and a modest de-globalization of finance and aid.
Under this framework, governance would strengthen the technology upon which the Internet depends.
But a huge step has now been taken towards anchoring all laws in the Constitution, which will strengthen the protection of all citizens’ rights.
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