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And, later this year, the international community is expected to agree on
binding
commitments to cut emissions and finance the fight against climate change.
Thus, legally
binding
ex ante control is a necessary condition for Eurobonds.
It is harder because the
binding
constraints on growth are usually country-specific and do not respond well to standardized recipes.
The EU overcame national biases to establish the Single Market by instituting a process of legally
binding
qualified majority voting, whereby individual member states could be outvoted on specific regulations.
Sixty-two years after the North Atlantic Treaty was signed,
binding
the United States, Canada, and ten European states to consider an attack on one an attack on all, NATO is transforming itself into a twenty-first-century global security organization.
China, which has never adopted legally
binding
limits on its nuclear weapons or strategic nuclear-delivery vehicles, rejects Russia’s call to join negotiations – a stance that the US supports until the Russian and US nuclear arsenals move closer in size to those of China.
At the same time, US officials deny that their country’s missile-defense programs are directed against Russia or China, but refuse to offer a legally
binding
guarantee.
Securing a
binding
commitment from China’s government to limit its nuclear development is crucial to reassuring the US and Russia that further strategic-weapons cuts will not undermine global or regional stability.
Under this approach, taxable income would be determined from the consolidated accounts based on international accounting standards (IAS), which since 2005 have become legally
binding
for EU-listed companies’ financial reports.
Even more important was the institutional infrastructure, including the
binding
commitment to democracy and the vast array of laws and regulations that we too often take for granted.
While the Security Council would be able to grant legally
binding
membership status, a vote in the General Assembly would simply upgrade a Palestinian entity to the status of a “non-member state” – like the Vatican.
The best way to proceed on the Medvedev Plan would be an OSCE declaration similar to the one adopted in Istanbul in 1999 – that is, a political resolution, not a legally
binding
treaty.
For example, it should not aim at producing legally
binding
decisions.
The absence of a
binding
agreement could mean a global hangover, and not just for a day.
The declaration must stipulate that a legally
binding
agreement must be finalized by COP15-bis in 2010.
Decades of research demonstrate that a variety of overlapping policies at city, subnational, national, and international levels is more likely to succeed than are single, overarching
binding
agreements.
The European Union provides one example of how long-term
binding
commitments can work.
But the knowledge that the euro is not a
binding
commitment among its members will make it far less likely to work the next time.
The EU’s legal structure cannot allow a non-member state to participate in
binding
decisions.
Theirs is a model that constrains national sovereignty by
binding
states to shared norms, conventions, and treaties.
These discussions, which are being led by the United Nations, will not result in legally
binding
agreements.
But it does recommend a legally
binding
commitment to keep investment levels at least as high as the rate of depreciation of state assets, and to use unexpected budget surpluses, first and foremost, for increased public investment.
With the emerging powers largely trying to adapt their strategic positions to their national aspirations and interests, they are unwilling or unable to articulate the ideas and
binding
rules that should underpin a new international order.
We are
binding
future generations to our own state of incomplete knowledge.
For China, it seems, international agreements stop being
binding
when they are no longer politically convenient.
In exchange for action on the North-South and Darfur peace efforts, the US would implement a clear, sequenced, and
binding
path to normalization of relations.
In fact, though we did not get a comprehensive, legally
binding
treaty that would usher in an era of sustainable, low-carbon prosperity, as we had hoped, there were significant achievements in Copenhagen.
And whereas past presidential directives have been reversible, either immediately or within a very short timeframe, the commitment that Obama made under the Paris agreement has a four-year withdrawal process that is
binding
on his successor.
The American government has not set a good example, having already abandoned the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty,
binding
limitations on testing nuclear weapons and developing new ones, and a long-standing policy of foregoing threats of “first use” of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
Nevertheless, the US – and most European Union members – argue that Kosovo’s situation is sui generis and will set no legally
binding
international precedent.
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