Forcing migrants to stay in poor and dangerous home countries aggravates social tensions unless determined efforts are made to strengthen economic and social development.
Shale gas helps fracture US-Saudi ties as Saudi Arabia is vexed at shifting balance of power as the US transforms into its competitor
Despite the debt crisis, Europe has chosen to modify, not end, social welfare programmes
To secure credit, Europe finds global financial markets no longer attuned to Western interests
Although the EU's survival hangs in balance, it can withstand the challenges and the crisis will usher in a new wave of integration: those that abandon the union would be pariahs in the financial markets
Four issues require answers: Global warming, rising agricultural prices, water shortage and, probably, but less certain than the other three, rising raw material prices, in particular oil.
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