Simplification and harmonization of rules and procedures

When the euro area manages to agree swiftly on a coordinated position, this can be instrumental to finding agreement in the EU as a whole and internationally.

Agreeing a common position ahead of the meeting gave Europe a greater role.

Strategic constraints would almost certainly overwhelm enforcement.

A country s struggle for identity can shape its strategic behavior.

Indeed, Mubarak s strategic vision is desperately narrow.

Britain s strategic future rests on this choice.

With a perfect conductor (i.e., zero resistivity), all of the current would flow at the surface, with no penetration into and through the conductor.

In the global information age, strategic power is simply not so highly concentrated. Instead, it is distributed among countries in a pattern that resembles a complex three dimensional chess game.

South Korea is trying to persuade the North to make this strategic decision.

But they were perceived as then ruthlessly pursuing full scale regime change, without securing any further agreement from the Council.

China views FTAs as a means to exercise strategic leadership in the region. The economic motivations are mostly defensive.

For Iran, a strategic partnership with the US would be the ultimate betrayal of the Islamic revolution, an inconceivable change of identity.

China views FTAs as a means to exercise strategic leadership in the region.

To integrate the country into a strategic partnership is therefore in the West s interest.

For Europe, however, Russia s role is of critical strategic importance.

Every day in the Gaza Strip, strategic deterrence the inhibition of attack by a fear of punishment backed up by superior military power is being put to the test.

I am certain that power sharing, reconciliation, and accountability are the only way forward for Iraq.

Negotiations and preparation took some time, but he claims to be happy with the end result.

But while this may take some of the sheen off Kazakhstan's chocolate patriotism, being strategically located between giant markets may ultimately help Rakhat and Kazakhstan more than Roshen and Ukraine have been helped by their own strategic location.

After all, no EU strategic partnership is unconditional.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu s zero conflicts with neighbors approach gave this re orientation its strategic and theoretical foundation.

As a result, agreement every seven years on overall expenditures is inadequate to preclude conflict on annual budgets.

So, although the strategic value of closer military ties with Pakistan seems highly questionable, Saudi Arabia has little choice.

Nevertheless, strategic anxiety lurks below the surface, particularly in India.

The strategic dimension of Chinese German relations, therefore, can only be strengthened, not weakened.

Viewing the region as its strategic backyard and a source of energy, China is now expanding its influence.

The strategic conclusion derived from such an analysis was clear, ambitious, and easily summarized democratization.

America believes oil can grease the wheels of democracy, insuring independence.

Turkey sees its growing influence in the region as a card to play in bargaining for EU membership.

And at the heart of sustaining desire in a committed relationship, I think is the reconciliation of two fundamental human needs.

Cost, risk and opportunity make IT strategic for our agency's growth and render it essential for our long term survival.

The annual summits need to be made more substantial, and their focus shifted from transatlantic, bilateral issues to aligning EU and US global policies and actions.

Moreover, the country s strategic situation is deteriorating with each passing year, because the global redistribution of power and influence from the West to the East can only weaken Israel s position.

A state becomes a world power when its strategic significance and potential give it global reach.

In addition to these practical reasons for the improvement in bilateral relations, the rise of China poses a strategic consideration.

Preventing the EU from falling apart will require, first and foremost, a strategic solution to the Greek crisis.

The strategic partnership that both America and the European Union have at times sought with China looks both more plausible and more desirable with democratic India.

If Putin's dangerous brinkmanship is to be stopped, Western leaders will need to find a way to initiate strategic cooperation with Russia.

But, despite having finalized the terms of the agreement, Obama failed to persuade Afghanistan s outgoing president, Hamid Karzai, to sign it.

One way to understand how this higher level coherence emerges is to study it in a more accessible form.

Reconciling these competing strategic visions of the world, in particular of global crisis, will make international diplomacy more complicated than ever.

I propose a new policy solution that would support the whole but not the parts.

Post Cold War India began pursuing mutually beneficial strategic partnerships with other key players in Asia and the wider world. The new global strategic partnership with the United States a defining feature of this decade was made possible by the post 1989 shifts in Indian policy thinking.

ASHGABAT Turkmenistan, a country rich in natural gas and strategically located on the borders of Iran and Afghanistan, may be on the brink of transformation. By reforming its educational system and giving its citizens access to global sources of information, the country could emerge as a leader of change in post Soviet Central Asia, setting an example of openness for other closed societies, including North Korea.