Each of these pillars is needed if Europe is to overcome its existential crisis.

Balance of trade in Russia is reported by the Central Bank of Russia.

Russia, meanwhile, is clearly suffering from an even deeper identity crisis.

It is a weakened democracy mired in an economic and social crisis so deep that it verges on becoming an identity crisis.

Credibly delivering on important EU level reforms enabled Europe to put the most existential phase of the crisis behind it.

And yet one senses among elites from emerging countries something akin to existential doubt, which the European crisis has served to reinforce.

France s profound political shift reflects the persistence of the economic crisis that began in 2008.

Ultimately, the explanation for the passage of far reaching financial reform can only be the severity of the crisis.

Existential risk the second big problem.

Or Living in existential vacuum it sucks.

Whether Europe would avoid a deep depression hinged on whether it dealt properly with these two aspects of the crisis.

As a result, Europe continues to try to quench the fire with gasoline German enforced austerity with the consequence that, in a mere three years, the eurozone s financial crisis has become a European existential crisis.

Although the pressure from financial markets has moderated, for now, a long term resolution to the crisis remains an existential priority for the EU.

So now we get to the existential reality of the story, right?

But, though Syriza s victory may mark the start of the next chapter in the euro crisis, the political and possibly existential danger that Europe faces runs deeper.

But it could be tempted to impose some limits on the ECB and thus set Europe on a path into deeper crisis.

Afghanistan does not pose an existential threat to global security.

Existential risk is a threat to human survival, or to the long term potential of our species.

But the mutually reinforcing recession and debt crisis that Spain now faces have reinvigorated Catalonia s long standing secessionist movement austerity has transformed a chronic, though manageable, problem into an acute existential question.

The small increase in the value of goods exports between 2001 and 2002 was associated with an increase in export volumes , in line with the recovery in foreign demand in 2002 .

Great Depression, 1929 1931 The young republic, like the rest of the world, found itself in a deep economic crisis during the Great Depression.

Crisis of the novel Mirbeau then underwent a grave existential and literary crisis, yet during this time, he still published in serial form a pre existentialist novel about the artist s fate, Dans le ciel ( In the Sky ), introducing the figure of a painter (Lucien), directly modeled on Van Gogh.

And I think of this as a kind of existential wake up call.

This is a deep question.

Extremely profound experience.

I was caught off guard when Stephen Colbert asked me a profound question, a profound question.

BERKELEY The United States continues to recover from its deepest economic slump since the Great Depression, but the pace of recovery remains frustratingly slow.

Both countries are in the midst of a deep identity crisis that is mutating into disdain for Europe, foreigners, migrants, and all who represent the other.

Stories accompany me, keeping my pieces and memories together, like an existential glue.

After the resignation of Manuel Fraga and the successive victories of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in the general election of 1982 and 1986 general election, the Popular Alliance entered a period of deep crisis.

But there came a time where because of other historical events, the traditional link ... was finally broken for the western world, what happened during the seventeenth century .

You feel deep, deep guilt.

That's the profound switch.

She pitied him deeply.

This is deeply democratizing.

Abundant but not profound intelligence.

Is the wound very deep?

We're in a deep recession.

There are a lot of people who would love to have this diversity exist just for the existence value of it.

A value for things with a personal touch an autograph book, a soul searching letter.

We are likely to begin finding out the answer to that existential question in the next few weeks.

Tesla's insight was profound.

To me, that is deep happiness.

Deeply concerned.

Given this, it might seem premature, to say the least, to announce the return of the West, especially at a time when the US economy remains fragile, Europe s financial crisis is fueling an existential funk, and Japan s deep structural malaise continues.