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...drive to integrate Ukraine more closely with the West, toward an eventual aim of membership in the European Union. Instead, Ukraine would once more align itself with Moscow. "This is a very special election," says Volodymyr Lytvyn, the Rada speaker and leader of the centrist People's Bloc. "At stake is whether Ukraine has passed the point of no return to its so recent authoritarian past." The orange government came to power promising fundamental change that would make such a return impossible. And to an extent it has delivered: for business, less red tape and tax; for the wider community...
...methods we're using to improve things are different," says Ghosn during an interview at Renault's Boulogne-Billancourt headquarters on the southwestern edge of Paris. "We're confident this plan will be successful. But if not, we'll assume the consequences. Everyone knows exactly what's at stake...
...eventually heading the group's South American operations, based in Brazil, before taking over the North American operations. Recruited to the money-losing Renault in 1996, Ghosn undertook a three-year cost-cutting campaign, ultimately saving the company more than $5.2 billion--and allowing it to take its controlling stake of Nissan...
...Following the latest clashes, Indonesia's army chief and other senior officials traveled to Jayapura last Friday to talk with local leaders. There's much at stake: the Freeport facility, the world's largest gold mine, is the single largest contributor to Indonesia's coffers, paying roughly $1 billion in taxes last year...
...huge marginal tax rates, compensation, and other labor costs. The bill might be incompatible with post-World War II standards, but just like Germany and Italy, France has to adapt in order to save its precious safety net. If reforms do not pass, the whole European project is at stake. This is about adaptation or extinction. In 1968, amidst the barricades that inspired Jean Paul Sartre, ideals rotted because of extremism and ideological stagnation. Beautiful dreams turned into anarchism, burning books, and Jacobin violence. Today, Michel Houellebecq, a prominent French writer, points out how even the utopian sexual revolution...