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That re-founding should start without delay.
Combating corruption through increased punitive action, while leaving intact a bloated and discretionary public sector, will only paralyze public officials, delay important decisions, and play into the hands of cynical demagogues and political fanatics.
This includes “active defense” operations, which aim to deter, delay, or prevent encroachment by other countries, specifically the US, into certain areas – such as Taiwan, the Korean peninsula, and the South China Sea – in the event of regional conflict.
A December 2004 summit, to take place under a Dutch chairmanship, is to see the EU review Turkey's progress and decide, provided the criteria are met, on whether to start negotiations "without delay."
What is needed is a grand bargain, with countries that lack policy credibility undertaking structural reforms without delay, in exchange for more room within the EU for growth-generating measures, even at the cost of higher short-term deficits.
We are likely to hear of delay after delay in the coming days, as various sides try to choose their representatives.
She agreed – after an agonizing delay – to a joint European Union-International Monetary Fund lending package to Greece in May 2010.
The ECB must not delay in positioning itself for the next downturn.
He has reached out to the Muslim world and pledged to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without delay.
But the longer the delay, the more painful it will be.
If EU countries are to overcome the demographic challenges of the next half-century, they should not delay in preparing for them.
The longer they delay, the less effective their efforts will be.
As a result, they will limit or delay purchases and shift at least some of their consumption to foreign-made products that the tariffs have now made relatively cheaper.
He would certainly be happy to delay the vote – and, if it is held, to dispute its legitimacy.
Since nearly all schools are dependent on government subsidies, the grant of flexibility is widely perceived to be a tactical delay.
But the election result in Athens could fuel panic in financial markets, causing a crisis that would threaten to spill over into Italy, the eurozone’s third-largest economy, and, with some delay, France, the second largest.
Unfortunately, either outcome would merely delay a politics-induced crisis in the EU.
Then, Pierre Moscovici, the finance minister, said that Europe might grant France a delay in meeting the 3%-of-GDP budget-deficit target mandated from this year onward under the eurozone’s newly ratified fiscal compact.
So however much Brown wants to resist obeying European rules, he cannot long delay raising taxes (or cutting spending) without breaching his own Golden Rule and undermining his personal credibility.
Any delay will cause further frustration and increase the odds of retaliatory policies from EU members.
Because of the delay between investment and production for conventional oil production, these projects in non-OPEC countries peaked around the same time the oil market began to slow down, and when expectations about future demand for oil started to falter.
While conveying the possibility of a veto, Russia’s current strategy is to delay a Security Council vote as long as possible by prompting a new fact-finding mission to Kosovo, which will most likely be followed by renewed insistence on another effort to negotiate a settlement.
Serbia welcomes delay in the hope that this will stimulate violence by frustrated Kosovars, thereby increasing Europe’s opposition to independence and bolstering Serbia’s dedication to maintaining the status quo, or, as a last resort, to partitioning Kosovo.
Some European countries apparently believe that they can maintain an EU consensus in support of Ahtisaari’s plan but allow Russian foot-dragging on the grounds that delay is not unreasonable and something better may turn up with additional negotiations.
Individuals, companies, and societies do have time to adjust; but there is no time for delay.
India’s former ambassador to Afghanistan, Vivek Katju, is confident that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s anger at the Taliban’s gambit in Qatar will not delay negotiations for long.
They can announce the votes of individual board members on all policy-relevant matters and release minutes without undue delay.
While there is often some delay when political negotiations and trade-offs are involved, in this case, the sense of uncertainty may be heightened by policy-sequencing decisions.
There is danger in delay.
The consequence will almost surely be a slower recovery and an even longer delay before unemployment falls to acceptable levels.
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