With Europe's focus squarely on its economic problems, the Treasury has made clear there is no "immediate prospect" of a major renegotiation of existing laws.
After enjoying gains last week, investors in Europe focused once again on the huge economic problems facing the 17-country eurozone.
The first group will be asked to work on pressing political and institutional issues, while the second will focus on economic and social problems.
Mr Berlusconi has been criticised for his silence on Italy's economic problems, amid concerns about whether the government would introduce the full austerity package.
Although the political and social divisions she mentioned appear no worse than usual, she might be sincere in her aim of avoiding the customary political ructions of a presidential election, so she can concentrate on solving the more urgent economic problems and give her successor an easier start.
Plenary session discussions will focus primarily on the impact of the economic crisis on education and address many of the persistent problems that limit access to education for large sections of society.
From Amsterdam to Leicester, conurbations that now thrive on diversity could face problems if economic pressures put an end to the municipal largesse that keeps all groups happy.
Mr Katzav says he will lock away his political beliefs during his seven-year term and concentrate on the country's social and economic problems.
In May, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed him as the United Nations' special envoy to Haiti in an effort to refocus international attention on the Caribbean country's deep economic problems and environmental decay.
The idea was a cold-turkey cure for endemic balance-of-payments problems, turning economic management on its head by floating sterling and letting the market dictate the exchange rate.
Acting Senate president Emilio Colombo told his chamber that stalemate "could bring us to institutional paralysis, with dramatic consequences on... the great social and economic problems that torment us".
While Mr. Brown deserves credit for some earlier spending cuts to reduce a large inherited budget shortfall, the budget fails to address long-run structural problems, counting on a cyclical economic recovery and stock bubble for a bailout until the next self-inflicted crisis.
This is a higher tax on investment income and moves us further from solving economic problems.
For some reason they think that raising taxes on the middle class is the answer to our economic problems in 2012.
The primary purpose of the East Gateway Triangle (EGT) Neighborhood Initiative is to foster collaboration between residents and public, private and community organizations on actions that will address the underlying social and economic problems and improve the quality of life in this neighborhood.
Yet already we see the growing economic problems created by the austerity programs imposed on countries as requirements for the loans.
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He said importing unskilled labour had "caused enough problems when there was an economic boom on" and would be completely "wrong-headed" in tougher times.
The President, as I said a minute ago, is focused on the problems that the American people have -- the economic situation that we all find ourselves in.
But if you look at the data, which shows three very distinct economic problems affecting young people in different ways depending on their class and nationality, that argument is revealed as superficial.
How much of a drag will the continued debt problems in Greece have on the U.S. economic recovery?
But even if he wins a six-year term as president, Maduro would not be on solid ground, given the country's profound economic and security problems, Shifter said.
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Faber blames the Fed for a lot of the problems, with its reliance on free money in these weak economic times.
The euro has created very different problems in its member countries as the economic crisis roles on, but can they be resolved?
This emphasizes an important lesson: Consumers can't be counted on to energize a recovery in a country with as many political and economic problems as Indonesia has.
European sovereign debt problems, Washington politics and slow economic growth are all weighing on sentiment.
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The sharp rally to consecutive all-time nominal highs for gold prices on the back of concerns over problems in the European Union banks and dismal economic data this week in the U.S. has participants in the weekly Kitco News Gold Survey generally looking for higher prices.
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More recently, safety, and economic and investment issues created by vertical separation, have caused huge problems on Britain's rail network and there is increasing disenchantment with the industry structure in place.
Looked at from another angle, the problems in the Caspian fisheries have also provided plenty of economic incentive on this side of the Atlantic: American consumers are simply being priced out of the import market.
More importantly, continued policy focus on income redistribution perpetuates the idea that income inequality is the root of middle class economic problems, rather than the effect, allowing for the continued avoidance of the deep-rooted structural issues in the U.S. economy.
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