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Renegotiating the treaty is out of the question, since doing so would open a Pandora’s Box of demands from everybody else.
The treaty establishing the ICC explicitly states that heads of state do not enjoy immunity.
No British prime minister could consent to a treaty change to create a fiscal union without having to call a referendum at home, the outcome of which would force the UK to withdraw from the EU.
If a new treaty is negotiated by March 2012 and ratified in the following months, the EU will have taken a remarkable step forward – indeed, only one step away from a real political union, which will have to follow if Europe is to end the crisis for good.
The US, which had just brokered an agreement requiring Chinese and Filipino vessels to withdraw from the area, did nothing, despite its mutual-defense treaty with the Philippines.
After World War II, Italy renounced its claim to Libya in its peace treaty with the Allies.
Fortunately, President Barack Obama resisted, and instead negotiated a treaty between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (plus Germany) that blocks Iran’s path to nuclear weapons for a decade or more, creating space for further confidence-building measures on both sides.
Throughout the crisis, European leaders have tried to respond to the gaps in the monetary union without proposing a new treaty, because they fear that any new treaty proposing more centralization of authority in Brussels would be rejected, either by national parliaments or by voters in a referendum.
So they have tried to proceed by intergovernmental agreement, or by using existing treaty provisions.
For starters, the existing treaty cannot be used to create a single European resolution authority, leaving an awkward interface between the ECB and national authorities.
To be sure, Japan's treaty alliance with the United States provides for its security.
Kyoto’s Misplaced PrioritiesWhen the Kyoto treaty enters into force on February 16, the global warming community will undoubtedly congratulate itself: to do good they have secured the most expensive worldwide treaty ever.
As the United States and Russia close in on a new arms-control treaty, it is time to face the question of how we deal with Europe’s contested neighborhood.
Yet the Irish government has insisted that every detail of the backstop be nailed down and included in the legally binding withdrawal treaty.
These include the generalization of majority voting, enlargement of the European Parliament's role, the notion of public proceedings for the Council of Ministers (making it almost like a senate), the introduction of the possibility of withdrawal from the Union, and even the possibility of treaty ratification by majority.
A decade ago, when the first Nord Stream pipeline deal was announced, Poland’s then-foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, compared the venture to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (the non-aggression treaty between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union).
The ultimate test of leadership will be a commitment to EU treaty reform, with all the thorny negotiations and referenda that this entails.
In May, the leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan established the EaEU by signing a treaty that will enter into effect next year, assuming that all three countries’ parliaments ratify it.
At the beginning of December, party members and supporters voted overwhelmingly in favor of the treaty.
The treaty is but a necessary step to successful EU enlargement and further progress on Europe’s construction; it is not an end in itself.
During the post-war era, European heads of state drafted a treaty to establish a Western European defense community.
This is why President Jacques Chirca is pushing hard on the fast-forward pedal in the current negotiations to revise the EU treaty.
This means ratifying a new treaty on European political integration before the 1998 elections, probably by the middle of next year.
Instead, the treaty established internal-market rules that barred governments from giving their companies unfair advantages.
The NPT was an abolition treaty, specifying that non-nuclear nations would start at the goal of zero nuclear weapons, and that nuclear-armed nations would commit themselves to reaching that goal.
The myriad rulings that have resulted from this process have left the exercise of national defense without any clear position under the Constitution and impede Japan from exercising its “collective self-defense” rights and treaty obligations with its allies (principally the United States).
This larger struggle is playing out in many places, including the ITU, which will convene 190 countries in Dubai in December to update an international telecommunications treaty first adopted in 1988.
Although many of the treaty’s details are highly technical, involving the routing of telecommunications, various governments have submitted proposals to amend the treaty that include provisions aimed at facilitating government censorship of the Internet.
The US would never sign a treaty that fundamentally changed Internet governance arrangements, but the point is that many governments will try to use the treaty process to increase their ability to control the information that their citizens can access.
The Climate’s Low-Hanging FruitNEW YORK – Next month, signatories to the 1989 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will convene in Kigali, Rwanda, to consider an amendment to the treaty that would gradually reduce, and eventually eliminate, the use of hydrofluorocarbons.
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