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These politically imposed weaknesses and distortions are today so deeply embedded in Europe’s political economy that there is little hope that the system can cure itself.
Failures always reveal weaknesses and provide incontrovertible evidence of our incomplete understanding of how things work.
The arguments of “Leave” campaigners are frequently inaccurate, when they are not outright lies; but the furious debate in Britain over whether to remain in Europe has laid bare the EU’s deep-seated weaknesses – and has forced European leaders to stop ignoring them.
The starting point should be the weaknesses of the euro area’s rules and regulations.
China and the US can draw important lessons from the strengths and weaknesses inherent in both systems.
Given that the German economy’s output gap remains negative, the government should be implementing expansionary fiscal policy that targets the country’s infrastructure weaknesses.
All have in common not only economic and policy weaknesses (twin fiscal and current-account deficits, slowing growth and rising inflation, sluggish structural reforms), but also presidential or parliamentary elections this year.
Chen’s case reveals weaknesses in China’s legal system, and it should spark a push to build stronger ties between China’s human-rights activists and the broader legal profession.
The reality is that each side is exaggerating its own strengths and the other’s weaknesses.
They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep and every weakness is dissected.
Its weaknesses existed in victory, too, but were overlooked.
Bush knows his strengths and weaknesses, they told me.
Though political developments in Turkey have been attracting the most attention lately, the country’s current crisis is rooted in economic weaknesses, reflected in declining investor confidence and the sharp depreciation of the lira’s exchange rate.
Well-targeted public investment can raise productivity and boost living standards, ameliorate concerns about inequality, and address Germany’s economic weaknesses.
Although the construction industry has long recognized its weaknesses, it has yet to muster the will to do anything about them.
The European Central Bank has played a crucial role in preventing a worst-case scenario, but the obvious lacuna in Europe’s economic and monetary union (EMU) remains: EMU established only a monetary union and largely omitted the economic union that has proven so closely linked to the euro’s strengths and weaknesses.
Rather, it symbolizes and highlights underlying weaknesses in the operation of the state and its interactions with citizens and businesses.
Weaknesses in any or all of these areas create incentives for corruption, laziness, and incompetence.
Time and again, financial crises have reflected the weaknesses of regulatory systems founded on the lessons learned from previous crises.
The recent “stress tests” of European banks were blatantly designed as a confidence-building measure rather than a genuine exploration of possible systemic weaknesses – failing, for instance, to include the possibility of default on Greek sovereign debt.
In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes ends by summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of the capitalist system.
But Tsang brought his own weaknesses to Hong Kong’s government – most notably, greed.
But the weaknesses of the current governance regime, epitomized by rampant illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing, threaten to undermine the global security and sustainability to which well managed oceans can contribute.
While much has been made of the weaknesses in the French economy, in many ways, France represents the eurozone average.
The economic weaknesses were simply being postponed to some future date; the Bush administration hoped that the day of reckoning would come after November 2008.
While the battle against Qaddafi was still raging, Libyans considered it unpatriotic to point out the NTC’s weaknesses.
Of course, if we could guarantee rapid and universal economic growth, democracy’s other weaknesses would probably be forgotten.
If the rebels are to ensure their revolution’s long-term success, they will have to overcome the weaknesses that plague them.
But globalization also increases competition and exposes weaknesses.
Freedom of expression and unfettered media bolster this confidence, not by highlighting the system’s strengths, but by exposing its weaknesses, which can subsequently be corrected through responsive, rule-based mechanisms.
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