Given Russia's attack on Ukraine, this is a dismal prospect, because internal weakness and external threats are directly linked.

In 2000, the EU set a ten year program of agreed reform targets, yet in many cases its member states have lacked the political will to implement them. Europe s increasingly gloomy prospects make these reforms more necessary than ever.

The room is very gloomy.

A widening gap in economic performance and political dominance is such a dismal prospect for the EU that it must not be allowed to become permanent.

Tom has a dark secret.

So, this is a pretty grim picture.

The Grim Outlook

It is a depressing prospect.

It's a depressing prospect.

That was when it all started to go sour ... My whole personality was affected.

This is a new opportunity.

The short term outlook is uncertain.

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That's what perspective is all about.

This prospect is hardly encouraging.

But the prospects of success are desperately dim.

An alluring prospect, but perhaps improbable.

The Promise of Euro Atlantic Missile Defense

Peril or Promise in North Korea?

This prospect literally gives me the shivers.

Clearly, Gordon s gloomy assessment of America s growth prospects deserves to be taken seriously.

Today s Russia has neither the economic nor the political strength to regain and integrate the lost Soviet territories, and any attempt by Putin to press on with his plan would impoverish its people and lead to further disintegration a bleak prospect.

The prospects of a stable future look increasingly dim.

A one year perspective is now deemed sufficient.

Fortunately, this is a remote scenario today.

The structuralist perspective also explains why recovery has been slow.

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But the prospect of an Islamized Europe is also remote.

This is a liberating, as well as a humbling, prospect.

A dismal silence greeted its publication, which left Germany s pro European establishment isolated and dispirited.

That prospect raises risks for Turkey, Iraq, and the United States.

Challenging them in difficult and insecure times is not an appealing prospect.

But experiences around the world suggest that this is a risky outlook.

And what perspective would Turkey have outside the EU?

A worldwide common concern the prospect of an Iraq War.

And the prospect I'm offering you, of an easier surgery ...

This prospect is already prompting the authorities to delay critical reforms.

If that prospect worries you, it should.

Yet this bleak picture is neither an excuse for apathy nor grounds for pessimism.

So why aren't Africans celebrating? Because they are well aware of the curse of oil corruption, conflict, ecological disaster, and anaesthetized entrepreneurial spirit.

In the course of the summer, the prospect of a perilous fall has become only more likely.

Yet the economic outlook still looks grim.

Such a prospect would be even less acceptable to developing countries.

So why aren't Africans celebrating?