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Though several European countries have done relatively well in terms of maintaining consultations and commitments with the US, Europe’s leaders have watched with growing concern as the postwar security structure has faltered.
The new world order has given way to an order-less world, in which reliability and predictability have given way to rapid shifts in focus and fickle commitments.
Syriza’s economic program neglects the important fact that fiscal consolidation and structural measures not only form part of Greece’s commitments; they also serve the country’s long-term interest.
In short, the troika will insist that Greece honors its prior commitments.
Advanced countries are certain to resist any new commitments.
Specifically, the report highlights the need for the eurozone to make two fundamental commitments.
Europe, Italian-StyleMILAN – Last summer, after two years of growing uncertainty, systemic risk in the eurozone finally began to wane, as conditional commitments came together.
A compromise would allow both parties to declare partial victory, for it would likely entail commitments to cut spending and some steps to make taxation more socially just.
In doing so, the US would break no international commitments and would not start a trade war.
We will address shortfalls in our military posture through specific national commitments.
Depending on the characteristics of different products, possible interventions would include advance market commitments and market-entry rewards.
The first study provided us with information about governments’ ability to maintain their commitments.
We have now sought to take into account whether those commitments would prove adequate to the needs of retirees.
The world already has the knowledge and tools to control cholera effectively, but existing resources are not being aligned with the necessary global commitments.
Contrary to Bolton’s cartoonish retelling, former Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi actually negotiated quietly with the Europeans and the United States for years before surrendering his weapons in 2003, and he received security commitments and assistance in exchange.
Needless to say, the IMF program did not fulfill its commitments.
This is not to say that the issues raised by the Section 301 report are mere fantasy, or that China’s fulfillment of its WTO commitments has been impeccable.
With high-level political commitments and new tools for promoting access to care and fostering accountability, I am confident that we can make this ambitious vision a reality.
But others were consistent with their lifetime commitments.
Yet, despite their rhetorical commitments to completing the Doha round, neither the US nor any other economic power has done much to move it forward.
A bold international move would be needed to overcome entrenched positions, and that means a deal involving substantial concessions by the US and the EU on agriculture in return for commensurate commitments by India, Brazil, China, and others to open their own markets for services and agriculture.
Fortunately, in 2015 – a watershed year for global commitments – world leaders established conservation and restoration of the world’s oceans as a key component of the new United Nations development agenda, underpinned by 17 so-called Sustainable Development Goals.
And the task ahead – translating admirable and ambitious commitments into effective collaborative action at the local, national, and international levels – is immense.
Growing awareness of – and strong commitments to resolve – the challenges facing our oceans is heartening.
Fortunately, we already have the know-how, resources, and, crucially, the political momentum to do this; and at the High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS this year, United Nations member states made ambitious commitments that will put us on the fast track toward our goal.
Casting doubt on these commitments would severely damage Germany’s reputation and reliability worldwide.
Sometimes, even powerful sovereign states use global commitments to help them lock in sensible policies that might otherwise be difficult to initiate and sustain.
In Japan, too, worries about Chinese assertiveness have become so powerful that a government that showed considerable hostility to the US-Japan alliance when it came to power three years ago had, by November, begun to trumpet the alliance’s mutual-defense commitments as it confronted China’s claim to the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands.
For when he becomes president in February, Kim Dae Jung will have no choice but to reverse his campaign commitments to achieve full employment, which would have required more state intervention, because he also promised to fully implement the agreement with the IMF.
Leaders from rich and poor countries, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and private industry will gather to make specific commitments to invest in nutrition.
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