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The Union's members should form a series of overlapping circles: different combinations of members should be able to pool their responsibilities in different areas of their own choosing.
If this constitution were accepted in anything like the proposed form, the EU would gain many attributes and trappings of statehood: its own president and foreign minister, its own legal system.
Moreover, major advanced economies, such as the United States, Germany, and Japan, face longer-term fiscal problems in the form of aging populations or oversize welfare states, limiting their capacity to contribute to demand management.
Concerning external demand, intra-European help in the form of reflationary policies in stronger economies is unlikely to prove sufficient, owing primarily to the fiscal and political conditions prevailing in Germany.
While democracy is, no doubt, the form of governance that best preserves human rights, the two are not the same thing.
It's hard to know when the next shock will hit, or what form it will take; otherwise, it wouldn't be a shock.
In fact, they have more in common than meets the eye, for each speaks of a rupture with the past while incarnating a form of continuity.
Royal openly claims Mitterand's legacy as she searches for legitimacy, while Sarkozy's rejection of Chirac's legacy has more to do with form than substance.
Reef-based activities (principally fishing and tourism) form the economic livelihood of millions more.
In essence, the form of government we seek within Germany and across Europe is built on a sense of moral discourse and moral decision-making rather than on the supposedly eternal truth of some abstract political concept.
But, while this scenario has a certain ring of truth, surely any breakup would be highly traumatic, with the euro diving before its rump form recovered.
Yet the DPJ will form the next government because of public disgust with the LDP.
An especially egregious form of corporate special treatment is that afforded to the drug companies.
Gallup's results, which form the basis of the World Giving Index 2014, indicate that approximately 2.3 billion people, a third of the world's population, perform at least one altruistic act per month.
By contrast, 2009 is likely to pave the way to a new form of bipolarity, but with China substituting for the Soviet Union.
But the real problem stems from another form of contagion: bad ideas move easily across borders, and misguided economic notions on both sides of the Atlantic have been reinforcing each other.
But even the best adjustment program cannot be financed without some contribution by private creditors, i.e., some form of rescheduling.
They do not form a formidable presence, as in Nigeria, where some Muslim-majority states in the north have even implemented Sharia Law, making them more or less Islamic states.
When Muslims form a minority, they have tended to co-exist peacefully with other religions, but where their populations are substantial (as in Nigeria), they tend to assert themselves.
For most of the last decade, the DPJ was not seen as a viable alternative to the LDP, although they appeared to form a pseudo-two-party system.