Europe s Ukrainian Linchpin

It is a revitalization challenge that transcends geographic, economic, socio political and cultural boundaries, and it serves as a linchpin in contemporary revitalization efforts.

This law was a linchpin of a larger process of transforming the sector in accordance with the relevant European Commission directives and best international practice.

Any strategy for raising living standards must include urgent measures that address AIDS, TB and malaria. Stemming the spread of this deadly trio of diseases is the linchpin in the global fight against poverty.

In recent days, Abe has raised serious questions about proceeding with the second phase of a previously legislated consumer tax hike that has long been viewed as the linchpin of Japan s debt consolidation strategy. Abe has flinched because the economy remains weak, posing renewed risks of a deflationary relapse.

ACMECS was to make it the region s linchpin of economic development and the bilateral agreements would cement relations with the biggest players in the region. At his zenith, many saw Thaksin as a worthy successor to former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, buoyed by authoritarian rule at home and assertive leadership abroad.

Politicians, however, prefer to couch the objective in more uplifting and persuasive terms than that of crassly increasing consumption. In the US, the expansion of home ownership a key element of the American dream to low and middle income households was the defensible linchpin for the broader aims of expanding credit and consumption.

Under the banner of a Eurasian Union, and relying on the renationalized oil and gas sectors as both a carrot and a stick, the Kremlin wants to tie as many of the former Soviet territories as possible to the Motherland. At the center of this policy is Ukraine, the linchpin of Europe s post Soviet order.

Saddam Hussein's removal was intended as only the first step. In August 2003, US National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice argued that much as a democratic Germany became a linchpin of a new Europe that is today whole, free, and at peace, so a transformed Iraq can become a key element in a very different Middle East in which the ideologies of hate will not flourish.

The ACD was designed to make Thailand the political center of gravity in Southeast Asia ACMECS was to make it the region s linchpin of economic development and the bilateral agreements would cement relations with the biggest players in the region. At his zenith, many saw Thaksin as a worthy successor to former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, buoyed by authoritarian rule at home and assertive leadership abroad.

We need to be constantly reminded as to why the Goals are important, and Professor Sachs in his report on the Millennium Project aptly summarizes the manifold reasons as follows for the international political system, they are the fulcrum on which development policy is based for the billion plus people living in extreme poverty, they represent the means to a productive life for everyone on Earth, they are the linchpin of the quest for a more secure and peaceful world.