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In other words, the scope for redefining the rules is exceedingly narrow, even though they reflect a policy consensus that is no longer widely shared.
The consensus among the negotiating partners – one of the few points of agreement regarding the Middle East among the Security Council’s permanent membership – was crucial in convincing Iran to take the negotiations seriously.
Although the report nods in the direction of international cooperation, it breaches an international consensus in a way that increases the risks of irreversible genetic alterations and new forms of inequality.
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP, attacked the “cozy consensus” around fiscal consolidation in Westminster.
The time is ripe for a new Third Way consensus, beyond the neo-liberal Washington pensée unique: a balanced view of markets and government, a refusal to confuse means (like privatization and liberalization) with ends, and a broader conception of those ends – not higher GDP, not increased income for the few, but the creation of democratic, equitable, and sustained growth.
There is a desperate need to re-establish consensus on how to address atrocity crimes so extreme that they may require a military response.
The US will have to find agreement with its allies and enter into direct talks with all the other players to try and achieve a new regional consensus.
Moreover, there is now a consensus that the 17 eurozone countries need a banking union to accompany their common currency.
When markets create an international consensus on the future price of homes in cities around the world, we will be better able to manage the risks facing these cities, thereby stabilizing their economies – and our own lives.
Curiously, there is a growing consensus on both the left and the right that the government will have to continue propping up the housing market for the foreseeable future.
If there is a consensus on one issue, it is the impossibility of understanding the bubble and the crash without considering the role of global imbalances.
The German post-war consensus is collapsing in key areas – history (attitudes toward WWII), geopolitics (attitudes toward Russia), the economy (attitudes toward the auto industry), and ethics (attitudes toward refugees) – and this is reflected in the fracturing of the political scene.
The answer lies in France and Germany, where, a decade after the 2008 financial crash exposed the eurozone’s design flaws, there is still no consensus about how to manage the large-scale insolvencies that are inevitable in a currency union lacking any mechanism to temper financial flows and trade imbalances.
The Paris climate agreement, reached last December and signed last month, not only established a consensus on the importance of addressing climate change, but also explicitly affirmed that ecosystems play a role in capturing greenhouse gases and helping communities adapt to the effects of climate change.
More generally, a political consensus is needed on growth-promoting policies, so that investment is not held hostage to political infighting.
America’s False DawnNEW HAVEN – Financial markets and the so-called Davos consensus are in broad agreement that something close to a classic cyclical revival may finally be at hand for the US.
It is not impossible to envisage a consensus re-emerging should a sufficiently horrifying new atrocity occur in Iraq.
Yet consensus does not even exist among professional economists about this.
While an agreement has been reached (2013 has been set as the year to reduce budget deficits by half; 2016 to stabilize sovereign debt), consensus is not headed in the right direction.
We in the former PASOK government instead helped create a more positive framework by declaring our commitment to work for consensus, thereby creating the basis for trust and mutual understanding.
Late last year in Cape Town, we joined delegates from around the world to reach a consensus on Open Education’s ideals and approaches, and we committed ourselves to them in the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, which was officially released on January 22.(See www.capetowndeclaration.org .)
The dormancy of the Doha Round of WTO talks, the public deadlock of some G-20 summits, and stalemates at the United Nations Security Council seem like sufficient evidence to proclaim that the status quo is imperiled – even if facts beyond the headlines belie that consensus.
She implemented gradual and pragmatic reforms in education, pensions, health care, and competitiveness, but worked hard to build consensus and promote dialogue and popular participation.
Though these parties have very different roots, they all have one thing in common: all are trying to upend the foreign-policy consensus that has defined Europe for several decades.
But that is unlikely, given the Fed’s general anti-inflationary consensus and the very short average maturity – roughly four years – of the national debt.
The Third Plenum aims to digest China’s experiences, as well as international best practices, in order to forge a consensus for a coherent reform strategy that fosters an inclusive, innovative, and sustainable growth order.
Moral disputes over history, once the most acrimonious in post-war Europe, are over, and even the Left Party – still somewhat nostalgic for East Germany – is coming around to an anti-totalitarian consensus, with real consequences for policy and political self-perception.
How Trump Could Rebuild AmericaBERKELEY – In the United States today, with partisan polarization at record levels, there is still at least one policy goal on which there is broad consensus, not only among Republicans and Democrats, but also among business and labor leaders, states and cities, and ordinary citizens: infrastructure.
The task now is to turn consensus into action.
In the talks leading up to the conference, a consensus has emerged that climate change is not only linked to many other major environmental problems (climate, water, soil, and biodiversity are all a part of the same system); it is also intertwined with social and economic challenges, like poverty, sustainable development, and the wellbeing of future generations.
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