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This year, the G20, under Germany’s leadership, will focus on building resilience, improving sustainability, and assuming responsibility for climate change – all areas where digitization must be part of the solution.
In Canada, Hudbay Minerals is embroiled in a lawsuit that could open the door to real consequences for companies that offload onto subsidiaries all responsibility for their overseas operations.
If Assad’s Ba’ath party cannot uphold that responsibility, it forfeits its own legitimacy as a participant in any future government.
At a time when the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi put Russia squarely on the international stage, the US and other Security Council members should plan a series of resolutions that confront the Kremlin with the choice of meeting its responsibility or applying its own leverage to bring the conflict to an end.
Has the current financial and economic crisis, given its traumatic depth and the obvious responsibility of the United States as its source, created the necessary conditions and a more favourable climate for a major re-foundation of the multilateral institutions?
The Britain that has always championed liberty, tolerance, and social responsibility should be ready once again to lead a progressive movement, spearheading action to fight climate change, resist protectionism, and encourage sustainable growth.
Influential developing countries share a joint responsibility with the G-8 for the stability of the global financial and economic systems.
But they currently have limited channels for discharging that responsibility and influencing global policies.
Alternatively, China could shoulder some real responsibility for security in East Asia and close ranks against Kim and his reckless brinksmanship.
The Council should be made explicitly responsible for "human security" and be given a responsibility to protect it, in addition to its current role in safeguarding more traditional notions of international security.
And it will require high-tech companies to pursue partnerships with developing countries, as part of their corporate social responsibility.
In other words, a central bank’s primary responsibility is not to preserve the health of the firms that make up the banking sector, but rather to maintain the robust functioning of the economy as a whole.
It is startling that the troika has refused to accept responsibility for any of this or admit how bad its forecasts and models have been.
To be sure, the Republican-led Congress has (so far) been disinclined to fulfill its responsibility to constrain Trump.
Proponents believe that more shared liability could pave the way for individual responsibility.
Given the evidence of widespread capital flight fueled by external borrowing, African governments can rightly insist that creditors have the responsibility of establishing that their loans were used for bona fide purposes.
The Intellectual and PoliticsPRAGUE: Does an intellectual - by virtue of his efforts to get below the surface of things, to grasp relations, causes and effects, to recognize individual items as part of larger entities, and thus derive a deeper awareness and responsibility for the world - belong in politics?
The Cooperative AlternativeWASHINGTON, DC – In an era in which conventional models of finance, corporate governance, and corporate responsibility are increasingly debated, if not called into question, it may be time to revisit the alternative approach taken by economic cooperatives.
After their elections this year, France and Germany should issue a joint proposal that reflects concerns about collective responsibility, individual flexibility, and EU solidarity.
On two occasions when I suddenly had to cut spending to comply with the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), a 1997 agreement among EU member states to enforce fiscal responsibility, I had few options other than to cut the defense budget.
No country’s taxpayers have wanted to feel that they are paying for others’ excesses: the single currency did not impose shared responsibility.
Hence, the West need not bear any responsibility for the outcome.
Europeans often choose to avoid the problem by viewing it as a conflict between two groups, with responsibility falling equally on both sides.
There can be no doubt that the responsibility for this tragedy rests with the Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian sponsors.
But, unless all Europeans accept responsibility for saving the euro – and, with it, the EU – everything else is shallow rhetoric.
Down with Euro-PaternalismItaly's presidency of the European Union bears an enormous responsibility, namely reinvigorating enlargement as the key aspect of the new EU.
Of course, there are clear rules about how responsibility for refugees is delineated: according to the so-called Dublin Regulation, the first EU member state into which a refugee crosses is responsible for that person’s asylum application.
A 2013 ruling by the European Court of Justice that Germany could not return an Iranian refugee to Greece (where the applicant was found “to face a real risk of being subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment”) probably heightened Germany’s sense of responsibility on this issue.
He seems incapable of connecting with ordinary Hong Kong citizens, instead coming across as a shifty politician who often dodges direct questions, offers vague answers, and evades responsibility for major failings by apologizing for minor shortcomings.
In such a context, fiscal policy would be the only effective macroeconomic-policy tool left, and thus would have to assume much more responsibility for countering recessionary pressures.
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