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Ethical standards also need to be strengthened.
The Europeans do not need their current level of representation, and the positions and voices of middle- and lower-income countries should be strengthened.
The causes of the persistent imbalances should be addressed through a combined effort at fiscal consolidation and strengthened competitiveness, with structural reforms focusing on liberalizing markets and encouraging wage flexibility.
At Maastricht in 1991, they set up new institutions for doing so; and at Amsterdam last year, they ostensibly strengthened those institutions.
In many EU member states, criminal law has been strengthened and is being used to prevent attacks.
More broadly, Asia’s power dynamics are likely to remain fluid, with new or shifting alliances and strengthened military capabilities continuing to challenge regional stability.
For example, anti-dumping rules could be better harmonized with domestic anti-monopoly rules, and regulations could be created or strengthened to minimize the discriminatory effects of FTAs and to prevent governments from using subsidies to state-owned firms to bypass WTO rules.
Although the agreement may yet strip Assad’s regime of some of its most dangerous weapons, the process – if it can be called that – which brought it about has strengthened a global perception that US foreign policy in Obama’s second term is either adrift or drifting into isolationism.
More than ever, the Bank’s independence must be strengthened.
If the single currency prospers, the EU will be strengthened and the process of European integration will receive a large new political impulse.
The case for control is strengthened when host countries have a labor surplus, as has been true of much of Western Europe since the crisis of 2008.
With NATO’s European pillar strengthened, the US will have an even more reliable defense partner, one that is equipped with cutting-edge capabilities and technologies.
Energy projects also could be strengthened, given that energy needs are expected to grow even faster south of the Mediterranean than in Europe.
Indeed, in June 2009, Germany’s Constitutional Court strengthened its political role by demanding that ratification of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty be accompanied by a law warranting powers of co-decision to the German Parliament.
In the end, America’s position in the region strengthened after Egypt became a US ally and made peace with Israel.
Social, tribal, and economic ties between the provinces of Deir al-Zour in Syria and Anbar in Iraq are strong and have strengthened further as control by the Syrian and Iraqi governments has loosened.
These efforts are to be commended, but they also need to be strengthened if more countries are to join Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, and New Zealand in having pension systems that are both sustainable and adequate.
Economically, the UK’s trading position with the rest of the world is strengthened by its membership in the EU.
The ECB’s massive refinancing operations to provide liquidity to the financial system have also strengthened the link between sovereign and bank risk.
If the government is only partly successful in preventing economic overheating, it might nonetheless appear to casual observers that austerity actually strengthened the economy.
France’s successful presidency has intensified doubts about the effectiveness of the Commission and its president, so much so that even in Paris concerns are being voiced that the Brussels executive must somehow be strengthened if it is not to become a mere secretariat.
For example, the banking union needs to be strengthened through an enhanced resolution regime and an integrated financial supervisor, and a sovereign insolvency mechanism should be introduced.
People complain that in that time he managed to arouse so much hatred toward the idea of reform that he strengthened the Communists' position.
All of this strengthened the public’s suspicion that the system is fixed in favor of the rich and powerful, who are never held to account.
China’s inflation has been higher than the average of its trading partners, and the renminbi has in fact strengthened gradually in nominal terms.
He evidently thought that this would strengthen his hand; instead, it merely strengthened the position of those Germans convinced that the time had come to let Greece drop out of the euro.
It was strengthened in the course of the war against Islamist terrorism, in which the Kurds have been the civilized world’s staunchest – and sometimes solitary – spearhead.
Building recognition of women’s rights into the MDGs did not corrupt African cultures by imposing “Western” values; in fact, it strengthened many African countries, which now lead the world in the representation of women in government.
His case seems strengthened by the collapse of the Dutch government as a result of the populist Geert Wilders’ objection to German-imposed austerity, as well as by the strength of Le Pen’s support in France.
In the case of the US and South Korea, the relationship strengthened during the administration of a Republican, George W. Bush, with Obama’s Democratic administration sustaining that trend.
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