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But the relentless sniping by its two most important Asian allies has blocked the kind of concrete cooperation needed to help it achieve its main goals, including ensuring a durable, long-term military presence in the region.
Though the meeting produced no concrete policy action – as the French daily Le Monde put it, “nothing was asked for, and nothing was obtained” – it could signal the beginning of more effective Franco-German cooperation, guided by the Pisani-Ferry/Enderlein report.
When it comes to the latter, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s proposals in August – expanded monetary easing, structural reforms (particularly in France and Italy), and some fiscal expansion by countries like Germany – provide a useful framework to be supplemented with concrete measures.
Indeed, multilateral leadership requires not only clearer and bolder rules, but also a demonstrated willingness to bear the costs of those rules, whether by creating safe zones to uphold the “responsibility to protect” civilians or taking concrete steps to reduce – and eventually eliminate – nuclear arsenals.
But they will mean little unless they are translated into concrete and effective action that advances African industrialization, creates jobs, and fosters inclusive and sustainable economic growth and development.
Such vagueness is helpful, if one wants to appeal to as many citizens as possible; but it can also cloud one’s thinking when weighing how best to achieve concrete goals.
But what was once a theoretical notion now seems to be a concrete possibility.
A default is a concrete demonstration of the limits of a state’s willingness to pay, at least in the short term.
Its politicians and officials have translated the vague trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity into a concrete form: 80,000 pages of laws that cover rights and regulations from the bedroom to the factory floor.
But now I do not need your symbolic votes;I need your concrete support.
Many “privacy” concerns are based on concrete interests, such as preserving financial security or obscuring information that could compromise one’s employment or ability to qualify for affordable health insurance.
But what concrete actions will Trump actually take?
In the real world, declarations of lofty principles mean a lot less than concrete actions.
And the concrete actions of the last year – notably, the warning that countries that do not follow the rules will be left out – suggest that 2016 will bring more progress, however piecemeal, toward a stronger eurozone and a real political union.
Sino-American competition, rather than concrete policy responses or coordination, dominated discussions, to the point that the summit did not even end with a final communiqué – a first in APEC’s 25-year history.
When the military chief of staff was assassinated in July under mysterious circumstances, the NTC could not offer concrete answers to an angry public.
There is an urgent need to start producing concrete results now, based on several promising initiatives that deserve to be scaled up.
Taking concrete action now will reinvigorate the momentum of fighting climate change and help restore faith in international cooperation.
But, as usual when it comes to the United Nations, the deal that was struck was big on stated ambition, but far more modest when it comes to commitments to concrete action.
They offer a grand narrative as well as concrete, if misleading and often dangerous, solutions.
In order to prove the skeptics wrong, Xi must translate rhetoric into policy, and policies into concrete, measurable results.
None of the new EU member-states have concrete plans or financing mechanisms to develop networks of community-based alternatives on a national scale.
But, almost a year into the negotiations, the government is still not ready to commit to concrete action.
Building the institutions of a market economy should be the main focus, not alignment with expensive EU standards in food production or the environment;The EU should gradually phase out its Common Agricultural Policy, which primarily benefits owners of large farms, and instead develop new instruments of financial assistance for its own poor regions and its new neighbours;Current EU members and successful candidate countries could make available large-scale training programmes in market-relevant disciplines for the young generation in CIS countries;Taking as a model the Stability Pact in the Balkans, the EU could offer concrete incentives, such as economic assistance and the prospect of closer integration, to stimulate parties to end unresolved regional conflicts in the Caucasus, Transdniestria and Central Asia;The main actors providing international assistance - including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, EBRD, the EU itself and the United Nations Development Programme - should ensure a minimum level of co-ordination to avoid duplication and waste.
Trump has decided that the US simply shouldn’t bother with the rest of the world, unless it gets something concrete in return.
Inevitably, every concrete step out of the EU is bound to lead to deeper factionalism.
This allowed us to make concrete progress on implementation of the EU's six-point ceasefire plan between Russia and Georgia.
What is concrete enough are soaring bankers’ bonuses and a real economy that continues to shed jobs.
He concluded that, “The value of a rising standard of living lies not just in the concrete improvements it brings to how individuals live but in how it shapes the social, political, and ultimately the moral character of a people.”
And missile defense is a concrete way to do that.
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