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In any case, the argument is moot, because the ECB’s mandate rules out any rate increase that could conflict with price stability.
But nowhere does the ECB’s mandate say that monetary policy should be set in the interest of savers or the financial industry.
But just because the ECB’s mandate has forced it to do the right thing on occasion does not mean that we will be so lucky in the future.
Because the ECB’s price-stability mandate is legally codified by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, it cannot be altered without a treaty amendment.
In calling for early elections, originally scheduled for 1998, he had hoped to obtain a new confirmation of the mandate of his prime minister, Alain Juppe, who has been beset by ever harsher critiques.
The dire postwar situation led to the creation in 1950 of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which was expected to serve only a temporary mandate, protecting displaced people for three years.
In 2012, the Supreme Court intervened, decreeing that the Constituent Assembly had outlasted its mandate, and installed an interim unity government led by the chief justice.
Today's government won a strong mandate in last autumn's elections, giving it several years to deepen and widen reform.
With this political mandate, India stands the chance of a dramatic breakthrough to rapid growth.
The new government has an electoral mandate.
Unfortunately, for many of the 6.4 million school-age refugees currently under the mandate of the UN Refugee Agency, access to education remains a luxury.
In Spain, for example, voters understood the implications of supporting the ruling Popular Party, making it one of the only southern states where the government had some kind of mandate to implement tough austerity.
Nor do I think that governments should mandate limits on meat consumption.
Already committed to reforming his country’s crony capitalism, he now has a mandate to challenge Merkel’s crisis response.
The Right Revolution for FranceIs France about to exchange the fake revolution of May 1968 for a sham counter-revolution this year, or have the French given Nicolas Sarkozy a mandate for real change to modernize their country?
Clearly, the prevailing policy approach to promoting open data – if you mandate it, they will share, to paraphrase Field of Dreams – is not working.
Instead of accepting that “love” cannot be enforced and must be won, Hong Kong’s over-zealous “patriots” cannot wait to show their loyalty by trying to mandate primitive propaganda.
He was also Prime Minister (a very good one) in a national unity government in 1984-1986; but, despite trying for nearly 30 years, he never won his own mandate from Israeli voters for the post he coveted the most.
Australia’s willingness to send troops into Timor-Leste in 1999, again under a UN mandate, may have not only saved that country, but helped transform Indonesia as well.
In Africa, Nigerian troops have often played a critical role under the mandate of either the African Union or the Economic Community of West African States.
By working to revive the domestic economy, the Fed, like other advanced-country central banks, is simply fulfilling its mandate.
When the French changed their labor law to mandate the 35 hour work week, heavy restrictions on the use of part-time and temporary employees by French employers were removed.
To avoid problems, a kind of debt-management agency should be established as well – possibly also under the auspices of the ESM – with a mandate to buy back member states’ debt above a certain threshold.
A first step toward achieving these objectives would be the establishment of an intergovernmental body with the mandate and resources to push through much-needed tax reform, while promoting stronger tax cooperation among governments.
Now that the PiS’s actions have been universally condemned, it is holding out until the end of the year, when the current constitutional court president’s mandate expires.
As a former mandate power, France had always had a keen interest and presence in Lebanon, and its influence has been deepened by the close personal rapport between President Jacques Chirac and Lebanon former Prime Minister, the late Rafiq Hariri.
An individual member’s interest in holding up talks needs to be weighed against the interests of all, and in light of the WTO’s mandate.
But while Bush was not held back four years ago by the lack of a popular mandate in pushing his agenda, he may be emboldened by the seeming ringing endorsement to push even harder - such as making the tax cuts permanent and partially privatizing social security.
Some worry whether Bush will use his electoral mandate to engage in more ventures.
Even as the NATO-led intervention in Libya was being widely criticized for overreaching its narrow mandate, a major General Assembly debate in July 2011 reaffirmed overwhelming support among UN member states for the RtoP concept, in all of its dimensions.
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