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The Commission, as the guardian of the Union’s treaties, must protect these four fundamental freedoms, which means that it must sometimes persuade, and if necessary force, member states to change their laws.
International treaties – like the Slavery Convention of 1926 – made many forms of slavery illegal.
They point to election results “bought” by special interests, and to arcane legal and regulatory frameworks that seem rigged to benefit the rich, such as banking regulations that only large institutions can navigate and investment treaties negotiated in secret.
These compromises state that nothing in the treaties will affect Irish prerogatives on abortion, military neutrality, and taxation.
When China joins the WTO, it will become committed (like all other members) to policies and practices that have been agreed on by the international community of trading nations and are expressed in the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and other multilateral treaties.
Unless countries have signed trade and investment treaties that restrict the use of such regulations (and many have), the IMF’s Articles of Agreement give them full policy scope to manage capital flows as they see fit.
But the constitutional scope is broader: legally speaking, all provisions of the EU treaties fall within it.
Governments in three Latin American countries – Colombia, Mexico, and Guatemala – have called on the United Nations to open a debate on the drug-control treaties.
If Europe’s monetary union fails, not much of the common market, or of European institutions and treaties, will be left.
Europeans made decisive progress on integration outside the scope of the EU treaties (but very much in the European spirit) when they agreed to open their borders with the so-called Schengen Agreement (today a part of the EU treaties).
Much of the problem can be traced to bilateral investment treaties and investment rules embedded within broader trade pacts, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Energy Charter Treaty, and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
Because these treaties were designed to shield foreign investors from expropriation, they include investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms that allow investors to seek compensation from governments, via international arbitration tribunals, if policy changes affect their business.
Last month, the UN Conference on Trade and Development convened a high-level meeting in Geneva, with the goal of developing options for comprehensive reform of the investment regime, including the renegotiation or termination of some 3,000 outdated treaties.
Fossil-fuel projects could also be exempted from investment protection in new environmental treaties, such as the Global Pact for the Environment presented by French President Emmanuel Macron to the UN General Assembly in September.
The euro precisely measures international tensions in that it is a bold experiment: a currency that is not linked to a state, but rather follows from international rules and treaties.
The gunboat diplomacy that resulted in the opening of Japan and unequal treaties in the mid-19th century was but a beginning.
From this perspective, the proposal to use the IMF as a conduit for ECB resources (thereby circumventing restrictions imposed by European Union’s treaties), while providing the ECB with preferred-creditor status, would exacerbate the Fund’s exposure to risky borrowers.
The immediate challenge is to obtain the most change possible within the existing framework of European institutions and treaties.
While proponents argue that investment treaties reduce uncertainty, the ambiguities and conflicting interpretations of these agreements’ provisions have increased uncertainty.
It is no surprise that South Africa, after a careful review of investment treaties, has decided that, at the very least, they should be renegotiated.
It has three parts: the changes on the map of Europe brought by the USSR’s collapse; the transformation of governments; and changes in the military balance produced by a series of treaties to reduce nuclear and conventional weapons.
If Obama submits both treaties to the Senate in 2010, he will need to convince the public that they serve an integrated strategy for enhancing national and international security.
If he fails and the Senate rejects one or both of the treaties, it could have a strong negative effect on the non-proliferation regime.
Human rights treaties allow for the suspension of some rights only if: (a) there is an officially proclaimed emergency which vitally threatens the life or security of the nation; (b) the measures adopted are required by the exigencies of the situation; and (c) the measures are applied only to the extent and for the time that are strictly demanded by the situation.
In contrast to Europe and Russia, China is not party to an alliance (as is Europe) or to a network of arms control treaties through which political solutions can evolve (like Russia), factors that contribute to Asian instabilities and Chinese sensitivity.
As the EU’s Russia policy is blocked by the Polish government’s intransigence, Russia blithely continues to sign more bilateral treaties with individual EU member states, most recently with Greece and Bulgaria.
Moreover, they participate in most investment treaties, and include both developed and developing countries.
But that hasn’t silenced the EU’s critics, who complain that it was the child of unelected technocrats and of governments negotiating treaties behind the backs of their people.
Colombia’s Libraries of PeaceNEW YORK – In a world where the threat of large-scale war seems to increase by the day, peace treaties are rare and precious accomplishments.
Every country in Europe is party to international treaties that recognize the rights of refugees to seek asylum and not be forcibly returned to countries where they will be unsafe.
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