Germany and some Northern European countries remain an exception, although the German labor market contains a large low wage, mini jobs segment.

Many other European countries are adopting the second solution.

Almost every European country has abolished the death penalty.

Some countries in Europe are not part of the European Union.

It suffers from less inequality than many advanced industrial countries (though more than Canada and the northern European countries), and it has had a longer standing commitment to environment preservation.

Like a dysfunctional family, the northern advanced countries ponder whether or not to bail out the southern emerging economies.

European countries, meanwhile, criticize the current military strategy.

Reindeer are friendly animals.

In isolation, European countries would have limited global significance.

Pay for the southern European countries or resign oneself to the end of the euro?

To their everlasting shame, European countries abstained.

How do northern Europeans do it?

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First, investors might be telling themselves that in the worst case scenario, the northern European countries will effectively push out the weaker countries, creating a super euro.

But are European countries with lagging productivity willing to accept depopulation?

Germany and other hawkish northern Europeans are right to insist that Greece adhere to its commitments on structural reform, so that economic convergence with the rest of the eurozone can occur one day.

In a debt restructuring, the northern eurozone countries (including France) will see hundreds of billions of euros go up in smoke.

Not surprisingly, workers are leaving the eurozone s crisis countries, but not necessarily for its stronger northern region.

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Recent German statements have pushed key European countries decisively closer to that point.

The countries of emerging Europe must go through a similar bout of introspection, but the fact that they were saved from worst case scenarios seems to make it more difficult to launch this process.

In recent weeks, European countries and apparently the IMF have been rejecting the pleas of Nigeria's new democracy to grant it debt reduction. Instead, they say, Nigeria should increase its debt servicing this year, and should abandon its call for debt reduction.

In recent weeks, European countries and apparently the IMF have been rejecting the pleas of Nigeria's new democracy to grant it debt reduction.

Two themes that people consider crucial are a stronger European economy (more jobs and more growth) and greater security (reducing cross border crime).

Here European countries are well endowed, having overcome centuries of animosity and developing a large successful market.

For hundreds if not thousands of years, European countries made war repeatedly with each other.

Many European countries are looking to China as the key to stronger domestic growth.

European countries are heavily reliant on each other in addressing these issues.

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Arab countries, already questionable allies in the war against fellow Muslims in Afghanistan, will be even less reliable in a war against fellow Arabs.

European countries are under severe cost pressures as well, undermining their cherished ideal of equitable access.

The system broke down when European countries, particularly France, decided to stop funding those deficits.

After the Second World War, many European countries enshrined extensive social guarantees in their constitutions.

The Europeans, let alone the Russians, may demure.

In 1942, like many other European countries, Ukraine was under Nazi occupation.

During the 1480s, Richard defended the northern borders of England.

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The northern countries argue that permitting wage growth and boosting domestic demand would reduce their competitiveness and trade surplus. But that misses the entire point surplus countries must contribute no less than deficit countries to global and regional rebalancing, because the world economy cannot export to outer space.

The northern countries argue that permitting wage growth and boosting domestic demand would reduce their competitiveness and trade surplus.

Other European countries (for example, Italy and Spain) fall somewhere between these poles.

Britain, Belgium, and Spain, among others in Europe, have devolved more power to local regions.

Indeed, while Saddam Hussein attacked the Kurds, European governments were selling him weapons.