Essentially, the price of debt-sharing through deeper economic union is loss of national economic sovereignty.
In short, European countries must surrender much economic sovereignty before Germans will trust them to share their bank account.
They have allowed this country to surrender its economic sovereignty because of their gross mismanagement over the past several years.
The debt crisis is forcing the 17 euro-zone countries to pool economic sovereignty to a degree that was unthinkable before.
However it will have economic sovereignty, which it does not have now.
But when the investor is a foreign government, we need to be vigilant about ensuring that the investments don't threaten our economic sovereignty.
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In short, these sovereign wealth funds represent a potential threat to our economic sovereignty if we don't act now to assess their impact on our economy.
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Economic sovereignty would pass completely to the capital markets and individual nation states would become yet more powerless before the forces of globalisation, de facto colonies of what Henry Kissinger calls the 'American empire'.
Especially since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, in which the International Monetary Fund demanded high interest rates to bail out banks, developing countries have stocked up on reserves for fear of losing their national economic sovereignty.
And many of them come from people who consciously want to deflect the attention of the American electorate from the real issue: as the United States becomes increasingly dependent on Chinese finance, it is rapidly losing its economic sovereignty.
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It is threatened from above by the European Union's inexorable whittling away of British economic and political sovereignty.
Although the Kyoto process seems in extremis at the moment, unless President Bush directs otherwise, it will doubtless be resuscitated and once again pose a threat to American economic growth and sovereignty, with uncertain -- if any -- benefit to the earth's temperature.
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The participants warned that LOST would adversely affect U.S. sovereignty, economic, military and judicial interests.
In short, the Obama administration wants Senators to suspend common sense and ignore real and legitimate concerns about the deleterious impact of the Law of the Sea Treaty on our sovereignty, economic interests and potentially even the national security.
And ultimately, not surprisingly, China has got to make these decisions based on its sovereignty and its economic platform.
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The reason it is impossible to found a rational economic policy purely on consumer sovereignty is that one cannot be a consumer without also being a producer.
Wallop -- who received the Center for Security Policy's prestigious "Keeper of the Flame" award in 1992 -- amplified on Mr. Smith's remarks with a keynote address highlighting the ominous implications of this treaty for U.S. economic interests, for American sovereignty and for the readiness and power projection capabilities of the Nation's military.
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But the impact of the attacks on the collective psyche may have greater repercussions for the sovereignty movement than the economic fall-out.
But I can separate loss of sovereignty with the the economic benefits.
Lugar has understood that the only chance LOST has of ever being ratified by the U.S. Senate is if his colleagues are buffaloed into voting for a giant leap towards "world government" without properly understanding this treaty's myriad, negative implications for U.S. sovereignty, security and economic interests.
The German Chancellor believes this will involve eurozone states having to hand over sovereignty over national budgets and economic policies to EU institutions.
Bashkortostan and Tatarstan have fiercely guarded their sovereignty for years, threatening economic sabotage or to provoke more Muslim dissent in Russia should Moscow ever attempt to take further control over them.
And that distinction between a common currency and shared economic governance, coupled with continued political sovereignty is now proving to be a Frankenstein that is putting the world economy into a state of suspended animation.
And if the Greeks fail to meet their budget targets (as they inevitably will, irrespective of how hard they try meet them), they will then be stripped of sovereignty over important aspects of economic policy.
In order for a fiscal union to work, national governments including parliaments would have to give up the right to set taxes and determine public expenditure independently and accept a restriction of national sovereignty in other areas of economic and social policy.
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ASEAN's members will not countenance any reduction in sovereignty for the sake of deeper economic integration.
Along with financial support, Germany may have to yield some sovereignty to construct euro-wide economic government.
Their rulers are fully aware that economic integration with Russia means a loss of sovereignty and property.
This shows that, via membership of international organisations, the UK government voluntarily shares sovereignty in the crucial spheres of economic, defence and foreign policy.
Certain ongoing activities, such as continuing arms transfers to Hizballah that include increasingly sophisticated weapons systems, serve to undermine Lebanese sovereignty, contribute to political and economic instability in Lebanon, and continue to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
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