Pledge
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The most important signal will be the EU’s
pledge
that these agreements will take effect.
A good place to start probably would be a
pledge
by Maliki not to lead the government for what would be his third term.
Germany’s Pyrrhic VictoryBERLIN – The German Constitutional Court has ruled against the European Central Bank’s
pledge
to buy potentially unlimited quantities of distressed eurozone countries’ government bonds, and has called on the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to confirm its decision.
Yet, 69 years after that pledge, a record number of children – some 70 million – are caught in the crossfire of humanitarian emergencies that are denying them basic rights and placing their futures in jeopardy.
Xi has asked journalists to
pledge
“absolute loyalty” to the CCP, and closely follow its leadership in “thought, politics, and action.”
It must
pledge
to boost domestic expenditures, reduce its external surplus, and accept an increase in the ECB’s inflation target.
Nevertheless, it is the Great Recession that keeps Labour in contention, particularly in the light of the Conservatives’
pledge
to start cutting public spending the moment they take power.
The Conservatives’
pledge
to start cutting the deficit immediately amounts to only a 1% reduction in the coming year.
In his speech, he is expected to
pledge
to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s EU membership, and subsequently to hold a referendum on the revised relationship if he is re-elected in 2015.
Then came the inconclusive war in Gaza, which, given Netanyahu’s unfulfilled
pledge
to “crush Hamas,” undermined his credibility, especially when ministers like Naftali Bennett, the leader of the nationalist-religious Jewish Home party, openly challenged his policies.
Similarly, after Venezuela’s army made it clear that defending Chavismo was not worth opposing the people’s will, Maduro was forced to
pledge
that the revolution would now “pass into a new phase.”
They should
pledge
to eliminate all subsidies by the time they arrive at the UN’s COP 21 climate-change summit in Paris in 2015, starting next year with the withdrawal of all support for gasoline and for coal, oil, and gas exploration.
Withdrawal from the Seed Treaty would be an auspicious start to making good on that
pledge.
Doubling Down on European Energy EfficiencyBRUSSELS – At the COP21 conference in Paris last December, world leaders made a binding
pledge
to set national targets, including energy-efficiency benchmarks, for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
But the ultimate question is what Israel and the international community will do if Abbas fulfills his
pledge
to end anti-Israeli violence and apply the rule of law in a functioning democracy.
It should be noted that no one has renewed Wolfensohn’s EFA
pledge
with respect to the SDGs.
What is needed is for rich countries to live up to their decades-old
pledge
to devote 0.7% of GNI to development aid and to initiate global tax mechanisms for generating the necessary resources – a call that, unfortunately, went unheeded at the recent Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa.
UN member states should use the occasion to
pledge
a radical increase in funding for TB programs around the world, and to overhaul an R&D model that has proved unfit for purpose.
For the creditor countries’ leaders, a write-down would mean breaking the promise that their taxpayers would not foot the bill – a
pledge
that also formed the legal basis for supporting Greece.
Rouhani campaigned on a
pledge
to pursue “constructive engagement” with the international community.
Then the pension reform was announced, spurring a string of protests that drove Putin to
pledge
to soften the measure, while asking for Russians’ understanding.
In 2007, the attrition rate was one out of three – short of the pledge, but a sharp reversal from previous decades, in which the ranks of civil servants grew significantly faster than private-sector employment.
Part of this
pledge
is a commitment to “expand international cooperation.”
Non-nuclear nations that sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty, as Iran has,
pledge
to abandon all efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
Global leaders should take this opportunity to
pledge
to adopt the policies and devote the resources needed to end pervasive violations of women’s human rights.
Had he coupled this with a simple promise to “review our collection processes and priorities,” there might even have been no need to
pledge
explicitly, as the US now has, to end all monitoring of “the leaders of our close friends and allies.”
Even Israeli’s unilateral
pledge
to pull its army out of south Lebanon this summer did not instantly rekindle them.
While that was significantly lower than the US
pledge
of $1.8 billion, China was among the fastest to deliver on its commitment.
Draghi was still new on the job, so markets interpreted his
pledge
as signaling the advent of a new regime.
It is now more than $20 billion per year short of that pledge, with just one year to go.
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