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But, to avoid entering into new agreements that merely re-state or re-negotiate existing commitments, world leaders must act now to lay the institutional and legal groundwork for operationalizing previous proposals and make further progress.
Germany and other hawkish northern Europeans are right to insist that Greece adhere to its commitments on structural reform, so that economic convergence with the rest of the eurozone can occur one day.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev may also insist on Belarus recognizing the independence, declared following last summer’s war, of Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions, knowing that this would make the EU shrink from further commitments to Belarus.
The African-European Parliamentary Seminar in Stockholm this August (Sweden is the current EU President) emphasized the need for an implementation strategy to ensure that commitments made at Copenhagen in such areas as the development of climate change-related policies and legislative reform, are fulfilled.
But those commitments are still vague given the fact that EU leaders failed to say how much of the funding would be coming from Europe.
To be meaningful, the message must be backed up with action: G-20 members must demonstrate that their policies are clearly directed toward restoring economic growth and creating jobs, and that they will be accountable for meeting their commitments in full.
Beyond meeting its funding commitments, the international community needs to increase its investment in mobile and scalable education technologies.
Local and regional actors that placed their faith in America’s commitments will pay a bloody price.
At this point, the IMF castigates the country for failing to fulfill its commitments.
He has made clear his intention that the UN should implement the commitments that the world community has made.
So a case can be made that central banks should have the power to intervene in foreign-exchange markets, and that this power should – at least in times of crisis – include commitments to foreign central banks to provide unlimited liquidity in the domestic currency.
Any future commitments are conditional on keeping a majority of the committee in line.
This means that aid must be conditional on binding commitments from the recipients to respect rights, protect human-rights defenders, and ensure that new projects are not causing or contributing to abuses against indigenous peoples, such as forced evictions or labor-rights violations.
It is far from clear whether such a force will come into being, and even less certain that it could stand on its own, given these countries’ modest capabilities and extensive commitments.
Open-ended commitments, like aid flows to poor developing countries, have had only limited success, at best.
In order to avoid the establishment of a hard border – meaning a return to customs and police-inspection stations at all border crossings – the final Brexit treaty will have to include legal and political commitments from both sides.
All countries must raise their emissions-reduction targets and strengthen their commitments under the Paris agreement.
And we will stand by our commitments to existing NATO members, while renewing our determination that Russia will have no veto over its future direction.
Twenty-first-century cities’ determination to act in their own interests became clear in late 2017, when more than 50 US mayors pledged to meet the commitments of the 2015 Paris climate agreement – directly challenging President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the deal.
In the 1960s and 1970s institutions such as unions expanded, and governments made new commitments to affordable education, social security, and progressive taxation.
The first option would be to progress de facto toward a two-speed EU without establishing further legal commitments.
Although the Trump administration has continued to send mixed signals about its willingness to uphold American commitments, the US has nonetheless delivered on former President Barack Obama’s pledge to strengthen NATO’s military posture in the Baltics and Poland.
Notwithstanding the importance of these commitments in setting out opportunities for China’s middle class, they lacked a critical component: incentives for Chinese families to convert their newfound income into discretionary consumption.
Those investments will leverage billions in private-sector commitments, starting with more than $9 billion from a range of companies, including General Electric.
Doomed to slow growth, the US of today, like the exhausted Britain that emerged from World War II, will be forced to curtail its international commitments.
So the White House now wants to undermine the WTO’s legitimacy and rescind US commitments to a multilateral trading system more broadly.
Those commitments, no matter how hidden, spell trouble in the future.
The term "international relations" assumes the Westphalian order of commitments among sovereign nation states, which replaced the medieval order of communities defined by personal fealty to a king.
That provides plenty of time to translate political commitments made in New York into a legally-binding accord.
Poland would not have benefited, because it had already fulfilled the NATO requirement; but the change would have made it easier for other European members to meet their commitments.
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