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Recent
agreements
to restructure some debt are just the beginning; in fact, they are not even adequate to rule out an outright default.
The European Commission has other concerns, too – namely, that Google might be using third-party content without authorization and entering into
agreements
to prevent its advertising partners from displaying ads on rival search engines.
Finally, as a step toward making the renminbi a reserve currency, China signed currency-swap
agreements
with the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, and Australia.
The EU pledges to help set up “Western-type public institutions” and to transform the Eastern economies through comprehensive free-trade
agreements.
It has free-trade
agreements
with more than 20 countries and is a member of the nascent Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Tax havens make economic crime more profitable, and the only way to fight them is to adopt global
agreements
on transparency in financial transfers, which should also cover companies on a country-to-country basis.
Continuous deepening of the parliamentary and federal natures of the Union, rather than more international treaties, institutions, and bodies established in accord with various agreements, is the way to enhance the democratic and open values of the Union.
Given this track record, when trade performance declined after the 2008 financial crisis, most policymakers assumed that new trade
agreements
would, again, boost growth.
The two grand
agreements
that it pursued – the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – would have put the US at the center of an integrated market comprising two-thirds of the global economy.
It is our task as citizens to demand that our national leaders uphold these principles, so that the
agreements
reached in Istanbul do not remain utopian wishes.
In another disturbing historical parallel, he often boasted about his ability to reach
agreements
with the Russian and British monarchs, to whom he was related.
Now, free-trade
agreements
are being negotiated – namely, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – that will undermine the continued expansion of Chinese exports to the extent that they raise entry barriers for Chinese firms.
What the Greek and Iranian Deals Are NotPARIS – This month’s
agreements
on the Greek crisis and Iran’s nuclear program are undoubtedly important achievements.
The only other feature the two
agreements
share is their incompleteness.
As a result, both deals seem more like wagers than
agreements.
But it also seems clear that both
agreements
were the best that negotiators could achieve.
To reduce their dependence on commodities they also have signed free-trade
agreements
with the US (inexplicably not approved by the US Congress in the case of Colombia).
For example, if they were to conclude separate
agreements
with Gulf Cooperation Council countries, individual Southeast Asian countries would undercut one another, with the result that they might end up with worse deals.
Sarkozy’s rhetoric suggests that he hankers after new international
agreements
on exchange rates, and, indeed, perhaps a new global reserve currency.
Past
agreements
with the country, like that reached in 2005, are no longer relevant.
That is why bankruptcy courts and bonds with collective-action clauses (CACs) seek to impose on all bondholders, including potential holdouts,
agreements
accepted by a qualified majority of creditors.
South Africa will introduce a statutory minimum wage next year, which will help to protect many vulnerable workers, and could lead to simpler and fairer outcomes than the current thicket of collective-bargaining
agreements
and sectoral determinations.
Unlike trade agreements, most investment treaties provide foreign investors – including media enterprises and non-profit organizations – the right to press their claims directly before international arbitral tribunals.
But these were also social events, where attendees drank, caroused, and sexually harassed skimpily-clad hostesses, who had been required to sign non-disclosure
agreements.
Since 2007, its government has openly defied international health regulations and a host of other WHO
agreements
to which Indonesia is a signatory.
Unless Obama reaches an uneasy understanding with Russia – which would require revising post-Cold War strategic
agreements
– the chances of imposing a tight sanctions regime on Iran are slim.
For example, all the Union’s future energy
agreements
should include an “energy security clause” that explicitly outlines a code of conduct and measures to be taken in the event of a supply disruption.
The non-discrimination principle ensured that global trade did not become a “spaghetti bowl” of preferential bilateral trade
agreements.
In fact, what we have seen in recent years is an increasing rush to bilateral
agreements
by the major trading countries and blocs.
Indeed, the current rush to bilateral trade
agreements
has been accompanied by a rise in protectionism.
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