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Visionary leaders, rather than cowering in fear of Made in China 2025, should use it to galvanize support for science and technology.
But Italy is not just losing skilled, ambitious, and visionary workers.
Since then, European leaders have gathered time and again by Charlemagne’s ancient throne in Aachen, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, to deliver visionary speeches announcing that the time has finally come to build a truly integrated Europe.
The dream of European unity evidently induced some to remain silent in an effort to preserve the euro project’s visionary goodwill.
Furthermore, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has created what amounts to a one-party state during his 24 years in power, yet he is feted in the West as one of Africa’s visionary leaders.
Mandela, one of the most remarkable and visionary leaders the world has ever seen, understood that human development is a collective, holistic endeavor.
The future of Europe and the euro now depends on whether the eurozone’s political leaders can combine a modicum of economic understanding with a visionary sense of, and concern for, European solidarity.
History does include some prudent and visionary male heads of state.
The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty allows for an element of visionary realism in European politics, as there are no longer any institutional obstacles to the future enlargement of the EU.
But, as a matter of economic principle, practical diplomacy, and visionary politics, aren't regional free-trade areas at least a step in the right direction?
Such reforms require a grand bargain between America’s political parties, which in turn presupposes visionary leadership by both of them.
What is needed is visionary leadership at the local level, with municipal governments identifying infrastructure projects that promote entrepreneurship, increase their cities’ competitiveness, and promote regional development by strengthening urban-rural connectivity.
To ensure that US hegemony can give way to a peaceful and prosperous balance of power, more varied and visionary leadership will be required.
The European Commission, once the EU’s source of visionary creativity, has become a fanatical defender of existing rules and regulations, however irrational and destructive, on the grounds that any concessions will beget more demands.
Although Zhao was no visionary, no Vaclav Havel or Lech Walesa, and not even anti-communist, his agenda in the mid-1980’s embraced the economy, politics, culture, media, and society, and it led to one of the most open and intellectually rich periods of Chinese history.
When I listen to the grand, visionary speeches about Europe’s future put forward recently by some EU political leaders - President Chirac’s recent speech to the Bundestag being the most otherworldly - I am struck by the thought that these visions are worthless if designed to cover up a lack of enthusiasm to face the challenges of enlargement.
Officials at the US Department of Transportation must appreciate that their decision to fund Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s visionary project, called PlaNYC, will determine the quality of air that more than 10 million New Yorkers breathe daily and the amount of carbon dioxide emissions the city coughs into the atmosphere.
But it would fully vindicate those who believe that Obama is more a man of good will than a visionary.
Fiscal discipline does not sound as visionary as “economic government.”
MOSCOW – Two years ago this month in Prague, US President Barack Obama put forward his visionary idea of the world free of nuclear weapons.
In an earlier era, a strong, visionary chancellor could have exploited the fact that these different currents are all present on the German political scene.
Today’s chaos in the Middle East is rooted largely in historical legacies – arbitrarily drawn borders being a major one – and a lack of visionary leadership.
Convincing the public of this will require visionary leadership, not to mention more legal challenges that force the courts to take up and debate the issue.
It has initiated visionary national policies in areas like broadband access, disability support, and education, but it has struggled to maintain a coherent and consistent overall story line.
To some extent, this is already happening, with visionary entrepreneurs in cities like Nashville, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Wichita, and Salt Lake City adapting Silicon Valley’s recipe for success to local conditions and opportunities – and creating much-needed middle-class jobs in the process.
For Europe, the starting point was visionary leaders like Jean Monnet and the creation of new institutions like the Coal and Steel Community.
Why has the courageous visionary of the 1960's and 1970's lost his shine?
By forging shared sovereignty over issues vital to national security – namely, coal and steel – visionary leaders in both countries laid the foundation for European peace and security, while overcoming a long history of antagonism.
At the time, that idea was visionary; we now know that realizing it is a condition of successful development.
Free movement of people within Europe constitutes this visionary project’s most tangible feat.
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