But the overall health of Polish democracy is another matter.

This is one of the issues at stake in this year s presidential election.

Across the Middle East, water is a security issue.

Everywhere in Latin America, Cuba is a domestic political issue.

Climate change remains the defining issue of our era.

Important as they are, however, the prisoners are not the crux of the matter.

LONDON Privacy has become a big issue in contemporary jurisprudence.

Loss of the ancient cedar, pine, fir, and oak forests on the slopes above is another matter.

Finally, the EU insists that Russia abolish planned prohibitive export tariffs on lumber. Only the Georgian issue is really serious.

An anti missile defense system in Europe is a European, not a bilateral, issue.

North Korea is, strangely, a domestic issue for China.

Immigration has always been an immensely complex and delicate issue inside the US, and now for Latin America as well.

Women s rights are a global issue of the highest importance, and it is necessary to focus on the worst violations.

The most logical and potentially fruitful area of collaboration is climate change.

Jerusalem is another on the ground issue that will be a litmus test for the Obama administration.

Until recently, the overlapping claims on the 4.6 square kilometers were not a serious issue.

Regardless of how these governance and fiscal issues are resolved, or muddled through, Europe s banks remain a thorny issue.

The territorial issue concerning the border village of Yenga remains a source of tension between Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Development of water infrastructure is vital for the Maghreb, so if there is one issue that should unite the region, it is management and allocation of water resources.

But the fight against corruption was always to be only one part of a more comprehensive development agenda that was required.

As the science has become increasingly clear, climate change is now a major political issue at the global and national levels.

But so long as the anti trust case remained a threat, IBM was nervous, and began to back away from its business model.

Paradoxically, the challenge of climate change is a good place to look.

As the US, China, and many other nations now realize, climate change is much more than an environmental issue.

To put it simply when it comes to tackling food security, trade is part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Could the tensions and conflicts surrounding the issue of immigration in Europe be yet another issue for which the empowerment of women holds a solution?

Illegal immigration is a major issue, to be sure, as is the drug trade. But the US government has always regarded them as domestic American issues rather than as key foreign policy concerns.

Finally, there is the sad case of Europe, which has accounted for 21 of the cumulative growth in US exports over the past three years.

But when voters are globally aware and environmentally conscious, good climate policy can also be good politics.

Because Japan s isolation is a matter not only for the Japanese, it must be a matter for Western policy.

PARIS With the deepening of the economic crisis and the prospect of another recession looming large on the horizon, growing social inequality has become an increasingly urgent issue.

The answer is more likely to be found in the Treaty s simplification, taking out those elements that are not absolutely necessary, and also enriching it in such areas as climate change.

As we learned from the case of Larry Summers at Harvard, relationships inside institutions (not just with donors and funders) matter.

While Latin America seems well endowed, the situation is very different elsewhere. Europe is nearing its limits, and water scarcity is already a pressing issue in Africa, Central Asia, and China.

Illegal immigration due to human trafficking in the Mediterranean posed a serious challenge to the Government and seriously undermined the cause of genuine refugees and persons deserving humanitarian status.

The effects of international migration on labour markets and the growing recognition of international migration is a central issue on the global agenda, highlighting the need for global, regional and bilateral frameworks.

The target set by the new five year plan is thus also a policy manifesto to battle these social disparities, which are now a burning issue for the country.

Of course, I am focusing mainly on official loans, but private sector lending to the world s poorest countries is generally a relatively minor issue.

Rights of women is an issue that has been debated in Vanuatu, and probably the main obstacle to passing and implementing gender policies.

But mobilizing civil society is hugely challenging, particularly when, as in Iraq, it needs to be done quickly and on a large scale.

Rising energy bills, driven by the cost of fossil fuels, are a massive political issue in many countries in Europe and elsewhere, including the United States, where consumer energy prices have become a major issue in the run up to this year s presidential election.

And it is here Europe s external relations, an issue absolutely vital to the future of all EU citizens that renationalization is rearing its ugly head again.

Moreover, regardless of who wins the presidential runoff, fears about Ukraine s independence will not, in contrast to 2004 2005, be an issue.

Burden sharing is a sensitive issue, for both NATO and the international community, and passions sometimes run high.

Hence, the legal issue of whether reintroduction of capital punishment after once abolishing it is in breach of article 6 has been clarified after the adoption of the Committee's Views in Carpo.