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Is Europe Ready for a Trade War?PARIS – US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum is surprising neither for its expression of protectionist ideology nor for its sheer economic irrationality.
Rather, it is surprising because it has primarily targeted the European Union.
The perception among Italian voters that the EU has left them alone to deal with the problem of migration from Northern Africa is not particularly surprising.
“However fixed our likes and dislikes may seem, the tide of time and events will often bring surprising changes in the relations between nations and neighbors.”
The goal of the project was to spark conversation about sustainable design, and to illustrate the surprising ways that nature will be integrated into the cities and homes of the future.
Instability may not be surprising in Greece, which has received some €240 billion ($255 billion) in official loans since 2010 and is the main frontline country in the refugee crisis.
No.True, American leadership in promoting peace in Bosnia underlines the scarcely surprising fact that once the United States lends its power to efforts of conflict resolution, chances of success improve considerably.
When one looks at GDP/WAP (defined as population aged 20-60), one gets a surprising result: Japan has actually done better than the US or most European countries over the last decade.
President Putin’s silence here is surprising.
CAMBRIDGE – The price at the pump for premium gasoline topped $3 per gallon in much of the United States over the past few weeks, which is surprising to consumers but not to analysts of the world’s oil markets.
What is surprising in the face of this brain drain is the power of the lobby of university professors in Europe to block reform.
Feeling lonely should not be surprising, as Trump is not one for close friendships.
To be sure, the muted impact of inflation on interest rates is not surprising in transition economies, where the mechanisms of monetary-policy transmission and financial intermediation took long periods to put in place and still need reform and regulation.
In an age of strained public budgets and widespread austerity, it is not surprising that politicians finally recognize the potential benefits of tackling financial corruption, and British Prime Minister David Cameron should be congratulated for taking a leadership role.
Surprisingly, for such an extensive, cynically efficient cluster of humanity, the city displayed surprising civility and solidarity during and after the attacks.
Don’t Forget Wim Duisenberg’s LegacyThe most surprising and controversial thing about last December’s rate hike by the European Central Bank was that, after two and a half years of keeping interest rates at exceptionally low levels, the bank ventured an increase of only 25 basis points with no promise of more to come.
With political pressures encroaching on the bank’s policy decisions and a faux consensus, it is not surprising that there is now nostalgia in Frankfurt for earlier times and for Wim Duisenberg, even among his former critics.
It is not surprising that the Soviets denied for decades that Stalin ordered the Katyn massacre of tens of thousands of Polish officers in 1940.
But it is surprising that a Polish government a half-century later would be no less evasive about the past.
Against this background of rising tax rates and a shift in the tax burden to those with the highest income levels, it would not be surprising if Congress reduced the top tax rates and broadened the tax base in a revenue-neutral way.
Given these repeated breaches of the SGP’s deficit requirements, together with a similar lack of commitment to the pact’s debt limit (60% of GDP), it is hardly surprising that punishment for some states has come from the markets.
But urban youth and educated professionals, too, are larger in number and more politically active than ever before – a change reflected in the sudden rise and surprising success of “occupy” protest movements demanding an end to patronage politics.
Surprising almost everybody in France, the referendum came as close to a “No”, as Denmark had been close to a “Yes.”
The European economy has also slowed in 2018, with Germany even reporting a surprising contraction in the third quarter.
That is surprising, given the widening political gap between America’s two main political parties.
They will, but in ways that are inconsistent and even surprising.
If we take this metaphor at face value, there is a surprising consequence.
Let The Serbs Try MilosevicA lot has been happening in Yugoslavia recently, much of it surprising.
This is not surprising, given Venezuela’s mediocre growth performance.
The silence was lamentable, but not surprising; tracking donor funds is extremely difficult.
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