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On July 6, Greece announced that it had “irrefutable evidence” that Russia was trying to undermine the Prespa agreement, by attempting to buy off officials and otherwise intervening in Greece’s internal affairs.
European social democrats, for example, worry that a basic income could undermine the worker solidarity that underpins current social-insurance programs.
Would the fact that others knew his identity as a user undermine that trust?
Officials seem worried that a larger public role might undermine financial discipline; in other words, like the advanced economies before 2008, they assume that dangers to efficiency and stability result solely from an overactive state.
If Russia has created a linkage between Eastern Europe and the Middle East, America’s allies in the region expect their superpower friend to make it work in their favor, not to allow it to undermine further an already-delicate regional security balance.
Indeed, though ethnic divisions can undermine military cohesion, a full appreciation of them can lead to a more robust and stable security environment.
By giving an advantage to larger and more developed companies and industries, free-market ideology can actually undermine effective competition.
That is why illiberal democrats who place politics first will ultimately undermine the prosperity and strength of their countries, and thus their own legitimacy.
And the EU refrained for too long from taking decisive action that would undermine the economic interests of influential members like France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
The man hoped that his act of protest would influence PiS supporters – 47% of the population, according to the latest polls – who should not want their favored policies to be enacted in ways that undermine democracy and the rule of law.
The EU also needs common initiatives to replace piece-meal bilateral agreements on tax evasion and tax havens, which undermine the goal of a fair society.
The UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007 cautions that a weaker housing market will undermine US growth.
Such worries undermine confidence and make it harder to boost economic activity.
They undermine users’ decision-making capacity.
The Truth About SovereigntyCAMBRIDGE – In the French parliament’s recent debate on Europe’s new fiscal treaty, the country’s Socialist government vehemently denied that ratification of the treaty would undermine French sovereignty.
But if he puts his former colleague in jail, he could undermine cohesion among China’s top leadership.
Nor is Hezbollah keen to see the end of Israel’s occupation of the Sheba Farms on the Lebanon border undermine its claim to the formidable independent military force that it has built with Iranian and Syrian help.
But, for Khamenei, nuclear concessions might also undermine his monopoly over domestic politics.
Moreover, he is convinced that the West is seeking to undermine the Islamic Republic through a “soft” assault of culture and politics, and that compromise on the nuclear program would lead inevitably to concessions on human rights and democracy, and eventually to regime change.
Rising risk premia undermine the expansionary effect of fiscal deficits even during recessions.
But the WTO’s consensus norm has helped to ensure that such agreements do not undermine the global trading system’s multilateral core.
Asking everyone to do more than what everyone is unanimously ratifying would undermine Europe’s fragile harmony.
Wilson thought it would bring stability to Central Europe; instead, Hitler used the principle to undermine the region’s fragile new states in the 1930s.
Conflict was sought for three reasons: first to ease pressure on Hamas from within the Palestinian community to recognize Israel; secondly to undermine democratization in Lebanon, which was marginalizing Syria; and thirdly to lift attention from the emerging dispute over the Iranian nuclear program and demonstrate to the West the “tools” at its disposal in the case of conflict.
In that case, the agreement will not only damage America’s reputation, but will also undermine global stability.
Poverty and under-development undermine security and democracy.
The group seems to believe that forcing Japan and Jordan to negotiate such a trade could undermine the countries’ longstanding relationship.
Indeed, May’s threat that “no deal is better than a bad deal” does not just undermine the negotiation process; it is simply wrong.
More recently, Clinton defended the economic mainstream against attack by conservative Republicans, who pushed for deep tax cuts that would undermine the fiscal surpluses of recent years.
If they take their fiscal deficits (and a potential monetization of these deficits) seriously and raise taxes, reduce spending, and mop up excess liquidity, they could undermine the already weak recovery.
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