Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must achieve something in the office he has sought so eagerly for so long. Most important, he must address unemployment. It is a stubborn problem: France has recovered from the global recession of the late 1980s and early '90s much more slowly than the U.S. or most of its European neighbors. Having automated heavily in the '80s, moreover, France has a high level of structural unemployment that is aggravated by rigid labor laws and an expensive social welfare system. Chirac says he will offer employers a two-year exemption from payroll taxes and a $400 per month stipend for every...
Tadros plays a dangerous game in attempting to claim a Palestinian monopoly on pain and suffering. We need hardly remind him of the countless of Israeli, European and American civilians murdered over the years in hijackings and bus-bombings, both by current Palestinian extremists like Hamas, and current moderates, like Yasir Arafat. We choose not to dwell on this, however, because to do so is to sully the memory of the victims by using their deaths to score debate points. This is something that we can no longer stomach...
...bloc confrontation has made redundant the old logic of a military-political rivalry, where opposing nations did their best to fill a geopolitical "vacuum" and divided whole continents into zones of influence. This is particularly true of Europe. We do not think the real problems of European security can be resolved by expanding nato to the East. Such a step would lead not only to the creation of a new dividing line on the map of Europe; it would also carve a deep scar in people's minds. The creation of a model of mutual and comprehensive security should become...
...instant communications that cross all frontiers. And in a global marketplace the notion that authoritarian rule can be combined with free enterprise-the notion might be called Lee Kuan Yewism, for Singapore's Godfather-cannot work indefinitely. The U.S. maintains that countries aspiring to membership in nato, in the European Union or in the wider community of developed nations must respect democracy, free enterprise and human rights. But Washington is notably passive in promoting freedom of the press...
...overriding concern was to enable the survivors of the Holocaust, who were in displaced persons camps all over Europe, and the endangered Jewish minorities in the Arab world to join the established Jewish settlement in Palestine. The Jewish leadership made every possible effort to end the misery of the European refugees, rather than letting them languish for decades in camps as an international bargaining tool in a quest for an impossible dream...