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The list has been cited by journalists and academics in making broad comparative points about countries or regions. [2] [3] The report uses 12 factors to determine the rating for each nation, including security threats, economic implosion, human rights violations and refugee flows.
In mid-2012, due to successful fiscal consolidation and implementation of structural reforms in the countries being most at risk and various policy measures taken by EU leaders and the ECB (see below), financial stability in the eurozone improved significantly and interest rates fell steadily. This also greatly diminished contagion risk for ...
The index's ranks are based on 15 indicators of state vulnerability, grouped by category: Cohesion, Economic, Political, and Social. [4] The ranking is a critical tool in highlighting not only the normal pressures that all states experience, but also in identifying when those pressures are outweighing a state's capacity to manage those pressures.
European leaders will gather Thursday at one of the most renowned havens of tranquility — Spain's Alhambra Palace — in an attempt to fix their increasingly turbulent continent where war and ...
Europe’s generous welfare states are coming under increasing strain as weak economic growth collides with rising demands on government budgets, particularly from aging populations. Donald Trump ...
Dimon continued, noting that an "evil axis" of countries threatens global economic stability. "It's threat of nuclear blackmail. Iran, North Korea, and Russia I think you can legitimately call an ...
Suicide bombing in Stockholm on 11 December, the first ever suicide attack in the Nordic countries; Student protests across the United Kingdom since November; Student protest in Dublin on 3 November; Pension reform strikes across France during September and October (still ongoing)
A fragile state or weak state is a country characterized by weak state capacity or weak state legitimacy leaving citizens vulnerable to a range of shocks. The World Bank, for example, deems a country to be ‘fragile’ if it (a) is eligible for assistance (i.e., a grant) from the International Development Association (IDA), (b) has had a UN peacekeeping mission in the last three years, and (c ...