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First, the ECB’s mandate – enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty – is to deliver and maintain price stability.
First, in all cases we remained clearly focused on the mandate of price stability.
Nevertheless, the election of a new, democratic, and lawful president has become accepted nationally as a necessary point of departure from the murderous path taken by the country with the extension of Lahoud’s mandate.
Greece’s idealistic new leaders seem to believe that they can overpower bureaucratic opposition without the usual compromises and obfuscations, simply by brandishing their democratic mandate.
The most likely outcome is that Syriza will soon admit defeat, like every other eurozone government supposedly elected on a reform mandate, and revert to a troika-style program, sweetened only by dropping the name “troika.”
That is why Rwanda has contributed 850 troops to the International Support Mission to the Central African Republic, to aid in its mandate to stabilize the country.
The International Monetary Fund, the only global institution with a mandate to protect financial stability, can play a central role.
That mandate remains with current supervisors and international groupings, such as the Financial Stability Forum.
The coming weeks will make clear if the government leaders that are now calling for a Bretton Woods II are willing to give such an enhanced mandate to multilateral institutions such as the IMF.
Alternatively, the ECB could put political correctness aside and do more to fulfill its price-stability mandate by spelling out a strategy to return to normalcy, and by indicating an unambiguous readiness to adopt an explicit list of unconventional policies.
They now have the mandate and power to press for greater economic reform and liberalization.
Those of Iraq’s neighbors that are potential spoilers would need to be restrained by a Security Council mandate for such a Dayton-type settlement.
True, NATO’s abuse of the UN Security Council mandate for regime change in Libya poisoned the atmosphere, and Russia’s cynical rhetorical appropriation of the language of protection in Georgia and Ukraine added fuel to the geopolitical fire that has tragically blocked meaningful action to protect people in Syria.
Given his age – he will be 72 next year – he intends to run for one mandate only and does not have to think about his reelection.
Conventional monetary policies, designed to fulfill the Fed’s dual mandate of price stability and full employment, are ill-equipped to cope with the systemic risks of asset and credit bubbles, to say nothing of the balance-sheet recessions that ensue after such bubbles burst.
Opponents point out that that is exactly the problem, because the ECB’s mandate is more limited than the Fed’s.
It was not a mandate to buy, or announce to buy, sizeable stocks of bonds in order to reduce long-term interest rates.
The similarity between the SMSF and OMTs also implies that at least one of the two institutions is exceeding its mandate.
They are also more likely to challenge laws and customs that relegate them to second-class status in the public sphere or mandate their subordination within the family.
Instead of proposing reforms to the electorate and then implementing them on the strength of a clear democratic mandate, the few serious reforms in the past 20 years have been presented as being externally imposed – mainly to comply with European Union requirements.
Breaking the impasse requires restoring political legitimacy by electing a president who, having promised reform, gains a mandate to deliver it.
In 2001 his determination was rewarded with a clear victory and, more importantly, a seemingly clear mandate for change.
The United Nations Security Council should now exercise its Chapter VII authority to mandate an independent team of international experts that can assess the evidence of crimes committed in Abyei and preserve the testimony of witnesses before the Sudanese Government can silence them.
Egypt certainly does, having made it clear that a divided Palestinian leadership without a public mandate, like the one to be delivered by new elections, will be unable to carry out serious negotiations or win popular support for any eventual agreement.
The mandate given to the three groups thus appears to have been little more than therapy for social scientists, a way to keep them busy – and out of the opposition.
None will have a clear mandate, and any debate will be emasculated.
The invasion of Iraq in 2003 remains Exhibit A. But there are others, including the overreach (alongside the United Kingdom and France) of the UN Security Council’s mandate in Libya in 2011, and what Jessica Mathews has described as the “wasteland for multilateral commitments” in the US approach to binding treaties, including the Convention on Biodiversity, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Protocol on Torture, and, most relevant to the South China Sea, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
The sharp fall in oil prices, according to this view, will make it even harder for these countries' central banks to achieve the 2% annual inflation rate that most have targeted in fulfilling their price-stability mandate.
But Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, a member of the ECB’s Governing Council, immediately challenged OMT, asserting that the program exceeded the ECB’s mandate and violated Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty, which bars monetary financing of distressed sovereigns.
Like his predecessor, Khatami faces a conservative parliament that balks at significant change, no matter what voters mandate.
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