Equally important is a renewed commitment to economic reform in the EU itself.

This is the basis of America s insistence on administrative reforms.

In between meetings, the council s special project management office assists in the preparation and implementation of key reforms by ministries.

As a result, it is difficult to argue that the emerging economies have collectively slowed in their structural reform efforts.

Rents from oil production impede reforms in the major exporting countries. Thanks to their lubricated financial strength, regimes like those in Venezuela and Iran increasingly feel unconstrained by international rules.

The more the bank gives on liquidity, the less the politicians will do on reform.

The lesson for new member countries from the East is clear once you are in the Union, the outside pressure to reform decreases the impetus to reform must be found at home.

The advanced economies should promote productivity enhancing structural reforms with renewed vigor.

Success here would allow candidate countries to start reaping the benefits of greater price transparency, reduced transaction costs, and a solid macroeconomic framework.

Last but not least, we should promote gradual, home made, and country specific institutional reforms.

Harvard economist Martin Feldstein, indeed, believes that the single currency will be a political impediment to reform.

The new funding will support a number priority measures for reforming the banking sector in response to the financial crisis in Ukraine , the statement says.

What is required is a stronger emphasis on automatic sanctions for fiscal profligacy and excessive debt than is contained in the EU Commission s current proposal for reform.

In fact, there are two problems with all this talk and little or no real action on structural reforms.

Indeed, nbsp eurozone countries should not relax their reform efforts on the assumption that ECB bond purchases will solve their problems.

Even the world s richest nation, the United States, struggles to implement much needed reforms for some of its most important social institutions including its health and education systems.

When consumers see the benefits of market deregulation, for example, perhaps they will feel compensated for having to work longer for their retirement. But no European politician on the horizon is likely to take this approach.

More broadly, the gridlock will prevent the passage of important structural reforms that the US needs to boost growth.

Koštunica is also for privatization and decreasing the role of the state, but he is more worried about corruption and favoritism during the sale of state firms.

The suffering that so many people are enduring leads to pressure for reform, and Obama has shrewdly transformed these pressures into a political force.

Moreover, the power of vested interests that oppose reform state owned enterprises, provincial governments, and the military, for example has yet to be broken.

This is both a necessary and a promising role, for the region needs a local dynamic force pushing for reform, transformation, and peace.

Labus favors faster economic reform and is readier to accept Western demands to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal.

Catherine Ashton thanked Belarusian authorities for their initiative to hold a summit.

However, Islamists were among the 29 parliamentary deputies pushing for constituency reform, a fact that eased their dilemma.

Of course, continuing macroeconomic reform remains necessary.

TEHRAN Iranian President Hassan Rouhani recently marked the end of his first year in office not only with smiles, but also with further evidence of his efforts at domestic reform and geostrategic reorientation.

The country needs a deeper commitment to reform that will come only when its institutions engage the Russian public in the sort of open debate that we have lacked.

Finally, under this scenario, President Hassan Rouhani s strong international standing helps him to overcome conservative resistance to pursue much needed domestic reforms.

The EU should also take steps to improve its ability to conduct operations.

Indeed, in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, government and parliament alike were unpopular. Throughout the region, elections have been used to create a façade of democracy aimed at impressing citizens and the outside world while insulating the regimes from pressure for genuine reform.

Throughout the region, elections have been used to create a façade of democracy aimed at impressing citizens and the outside world while insulating the regimes from pressure for genuine reform.

The shadow of forthcoming elections in Germany, together with concern over whether Irish voters will ratify the Lisbon treaty (giving Europe a badly needed new constitution), has conspired to impede reform momentum.

Crown Prince Abdullah is far more disposed to reform than Prince Naif, the powerful Interior Minister, who clings to the old narrow system of repression.

Former President Khatami, meanwhile, is reviled by the fundamentalists and the top brass of the Revolutionary Guards, who repeatedly obstructed his reform agenda during his presidency.

Determined to carry on as they always have, no matter what, the governors turn a deaf ear to the IMF and resist instituting fiscal reforms.

I heard one commentator claiming that the referendum campaign was beautiful.

To intensify our efforts to achieve a comprehensive reform of the Security Council in all its aspects.

People sing, Cielito lindo while they help with rescue efforts in Mexico City.

This enthusiasm for reform marks a paradigm shift.

But, frankly, it will be easier to do this if the American public and the US Congress see that China is serious about reform and expanding access to its markets.

But there is no reason why international efforts to ensure North Korea s denuclearization must preclude policies aimed at bringing about domestic reform.

The conventional wisdom is that the threat of prosecution serves Xi s goals of consolidating power and compelling the bureaucracy to implement economic reforms that run counter to its interests.

Paying the Price of Reform

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