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It also called for greater coordination of tax regimes and border controls, stronger protection of the integrity of the internal market, and, in view of the rising
threat
of protectionism in the United States, a “made in Europe” procurement policy.
But plastics also pose a serious environmental
threat.
It took less than two years for the
threat
of exclusion to force a complete reversal in the policies of the Athens government.
Their major avenue for influence is the
threat
of a veto.
Invoking RtoP, that response began with a warning and the
threat
of sanctions and prosecution at the International Criminal Court, and only subsequently allowed military force to protect civilians.
The
threat
was real, and the response – in terms of many thousands of lives saved – was unquestionably effective.
A swing back to the center in continental Europe would strongly suggest that the unexpected victories for populist and anti-globalization movements in the US and Britain were not primarily a response to unemployment and disappointing economic performance since the financial crisis, mass migration, or the
threat
of Islamist terrorism.
But they should not be worrying about the
threat
of renascent Nazism, despite Trump’s clear ambivalence in condemning white supremacists.
For example, the current story in Colombia appears to be that the country’s government, now under the well-regarded management of President Juan Manuel Santos, has brought down inflation and interest rates to developed-country levels, while all but eliminating the
threat
posed by the FARC rebels, thereby injecting new vitality into the Colombian economy.
Climate change poses an existential
threat
to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
Instead, the main issue is the strategic
threat
to Israel’s existence.
Now, with Israel’s existence under threat, peace with its Arab neighbors seems a more distant prospect than ever.
In Israel, has the realization of a new strategic
threat
made debates about land and settlements seem obsolete?
Finding a strategy that credibly contains the North Korean
threat
is the only way to ensure that South Korea and Japan do not make the regrettable choice of joining the nuclear club.
At the same time, Romania’s experience demonstrates that official secrecy remains a
threat
to the core values of democratic governance, and that only constant vigilance, in both established and young democracies, can prevent its encroachment.
Abdou Latif Coulibaly, the author of two books critical of Wade, received a death threat, as did Alioune Tine, the leader of a main human rights organization, Raddho.
Whereas pandemics appear suddenly, spread rapidly, and raise enormous fears of an impending threat, TB has been spreading slowly but consistently for tens of thousands of years, patiently waiting for new opportunities.
Despite populist speeches about the
threat
posed by “Polish plumbers,” net migration flows between regions are generally insensitive to differences in unemployment rates among regions.
The mere
threat
could have held the Syrian government hostage.
On its own, terrorism is hardly an existential
threat.
The goal of full employment dropped off Western leaders’ radar, even though there was neither a
threat
of inflation nor additional benefits to be gained from increased openness.
Indeed, May’s
threat
that “no deal is better than a bad deal” does not just undermine the negotiation process; it is simply wrong.
Foreign firms that continue to conduct business in Iran now face the
threat
of sanctions, and banks that process transactions risk losing access to the US financial system.
Few Russians see him as a threat; most see him as a hope.
But corruption remains a profound and persistent
threat
to this effort, and if the government cannot reduce it significantly – especially among its anti-drug forces – a return to tolerance is inevitable.
Nevertheless, the stakes are far higher than in the seventeenth century, because Iran represents a
threat
that combines a fanatic religion with a determination to acquire nuclear weapons.
That is a
threat
that every country is obliged to take seriously.
When a country’s president delivers crazy speeches, denies the Holocaust, and does not hide his ambition to control the Middle East, who can guarantee that the
threat
is not serious?
But that does not mean that we can afford to ignore an obvious
threat
from countries that want to destroy us.
Late in the preceding week, Treasury Secretary James Baker made some remarks that were interpreted as a
threat
to devalue the dollar.
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