The reason lies in capital movements.

The root cause of the problem is the new European constitution.

The first one is the EU s lack of anything that incarnates it.

The root cause of all these developments is Europe s population shrinkage. The demographic time bomb that economic analysts have been discussing for a decade or more is now exploding.

Part of the problem lies in the fact that Philippine law places a very low value on human life.

The major cause of what has happened is the systematic intellectual weakness of Russia's foreign policy.

Of course, the left s real quarrel with Sarkozy s policy has at its roots in his conception of France s relationship with the United States.

First, high commodity prices yield windfall profits for the region s leading producers of raw materials.

Concerning the proposed international investigation, counsel argues that the only reason for Egypt's refusal to cooperate lies in its breach of the guarantees provided.

Perhaps it is because they believe they do not have the governance mechanisms in place to make tough decisions, to pick winners and losers.

It is because football allows for symbolically limited confrontations, with no major political risks, that it is useful.

What has produced the populist backlash is the spectacle of political authorities devising technically complicated solutions that lack credibility.

But this offers little comfort to newcomers today, in part because of the profound economic upheaval of recent decades.

At the heart of the Bush administration s success with India was a belief that India was a nation whose rise was beneficial to US interests.

Why the hesitation? More than anything else it stems from international reluctance to challenge any government over what it is doing within its own territory.

As I argue in my recent book Mind, Modernity, Madness, the reason for high concentrations of severe mental illness in the developed West lies in the very nature of Western societies.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den he lieth in wait to catch the poor he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

The fundamental reason behind France s current economic weakness is its lack of competitiveness even in other euro zone economies where the euro is not a factor.

Some say that it was the disenchantment of the world the shift from a worldview that relied on prayer and the propitiation of spirits to one that relied on rational manipulation and management of nature and of society.

And that makes all the difference.

Therein lies the crux of the issue.

But there also is some evidence that innovation is slowing perhaps the result of reduced investment in research in the past five years.

For still others, it was the lack of sustained effort to bring about peace between Israelis and Palestinians or US opposition to the International Criminal Court and to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

It may have been his need for power to hide a sense of inferiority, or it may have been his inability to understand the intricacies of statecraft, the way Otto von Bismarck did.

The key to heroism is two things.

The challenge facing the attainment of the MDGs has not been the strategies and objectives as defined rather, it lies within the degree of implementation.

Therein lies the inspiration for all of us.

Therein lies a profound contradiction.

Time is of the essence.

The key dispute is over Cyprus.

Since the equilibrium holds for the external forces on the entire truss construction, it also holds for the internal forces acting on each joint.

What has produced the populist backlash is the spectacle of political authorities devising technically complicated solutions that lack credibility. Simply put, the experts need to stop treating Europe s citizens as if they were stupid.

In principle, IDB membership requires OAS membership, and therein may lie the reason why Cuba insisted so strongly on returning, and why it was ultimately disappointed in not obtaining unconditional re admission.

As a result, diversification of Russia s economy seems a distant prospect all the more so because Russia s bureaucracy, together with the state s interest in strategic areas of the economy, repels foreign business.

The story has in it something of the element of tragedy.

But the fundamental innovation lies elsewhere.

Herein lies the most convincing explanation for British decline.

But the devil is in the details.

The second challenge is to halt climate change.

But this offers little comfort to newcomers today, in part because of the profound economic upheaval of recent decades. The factory work that once provided both a lifelong career and a path to citizenship is fast disappearing, together with the opportunity of advancement that it gave to earlier immigrants.

But, in my opinion, the reason for different and frequently contradictory interpretations is an incompetent and incomplete approach that detaches individual texts from their context and construes them without a thorough understanding of the true spirit of the Koran.

The great challenge is not to admit that there are many recipes, but rather to create space for other perspectives on economic analysis and policy.

Paul Bennett finds design in the details

Romulus Whitaker The real danger lurking in the water