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This essay tries to evaluate Minister Marcilio Marques Moreira's approach on Brazil's external debt negotiations. It starts recognizing that external debt restructuring should contribute simultaneously to the correction of public sector financial imbalances and to the stability of the exchange rate. The decision to simply adhere to current Paris Club and Brady Plan type agreements for middle-income countries will result in small debt service relief. Minister Marcilio's strategy requires therefore further public sector adjustment and new capital inflows to succeed

In line with recent studies, this article argues that a party's attitude towards the European Union (EU) derives from its main ideological goal, which is primarily of a domestic character. The EU is evaluated on whether it contributes to achieve the party's main objective in domestic terms. For example, social democrats evaluate integration on its impact on the redistributive economic regime, nationalists on the impact on the sovereignty of the national political community. The article then investigates how enlargement changed the composition of the center of European party systems & argues that the decline of Christian democracy & the rise of nationalism after enlargement makes opposition to political supranationalism a characteristic of the center-right, while in the center-left social democrats, from East & West, have adopted a pro-European attitude. Adapted from the source document.

Writing from Islamabad, the author describes the present political situation in Pakistan & discusses earlier attempts to reach democracy through the electoral process. He contends that it would be absurd to try to predict the future of Pakistan, this country that faces challenges that few others have had to confront. However, it appears that Pakistan is going to make a third attempt to become a democracy. S. Stanton