But when pressure is high, government leaders charged with financial management feel trapped in a corner during any currency crisis.

People lack the determination to take the action.

Against this background, the EU needs to take action on two fronts.

Let me suggest five steps necessary to begin to bring this about.

Legal persons

Legal hurdles

Hammer out your legal documents Head off legal battles at the pass.

You have to work the phones, cajole world leaders to do this or that.

Other legal persons

And the president decided, with his advisors, to undertake some kind of an active intervention in the world around us.

To strengthen the Fund s financial stability role, we propose action in three related areas.

In the worst cases, voices command the listener to undertake destructive acts such as suicide or assault.

On her return, Megawati restored her credibility by ordering the security services to act against these groups.

How do we deal conclusively with North Korea, which probably already possesses a handful of nuclear weapons?

The task of assessing trade imbalances whom to blame and what should be done involves both economics and politics.

Legal consequences of an internationally wrongful act

The imperative for businesses, educators, governments, and young people to take action could not be stronger.

More ambitiously, the NEPAD initiative demonstrates a new commitment by the continent's leaders to realistic joint action on a regional basis.

What is to be done?

Security experts should identify which actions powers like the US and Europe could take to improve Ukraine's defensive capabilities.

To take concerted action against international terrorism, and to accede as soon as possible to all the relevant international conventions.

What are the legal difficulties?

The practice persists, despite legal bans.

What can be done?

What can be done?

What complicates the matter further is the legal side of the debate.

It may be reassuring to believe there are cheap and easy things we can do as individuals to stop global warming, or that the answer is to continue chasing a chimerical global agreement on carbon cuts, as in Cancún. But the real action that we can take is to press our politicians to put smarter ideas on the table.

But the real action that we can take is to press our politicians to put smarter ideas on the table.

But more steps are needed.

What can be done?

What needs to be done is clear.

What steps should we take?

Only China, long reluctant to flex its diplomatic muscles, now has the power to find a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear problem. But the question everyone from Tokyo to Seoul and from Washington to Moscow is asking is this will China act in time?

Because Indonesia's government will likely be weak for years to come, Mrs Megawati should forge alliances with the many civil society groups that are emerging in Indonesia and which support a democratic regime. Such activity by the President will do more to root Indonesia's democracy than any other action Megawati might take.

But the question everyone from Tokyo to Seoul and from Washington to Moscow is asking is this will China act in time?

Such activity by the President will do more to root Indonesia's democracy than any other action Megawati might take.

As the refugee situation is being discussed for quite a long time now, people have time to deal with this topic and finally take some actions to help and make a change.

This rapid economic deterioration, combined with the high expectations raised by the onset of political transition, is creating a sense of urgency. Emerging political actors feel compelled to develop more detailed economic programs and to address their populations growing material grievances.

This rapid economic deterioration, combined with the high expectations raised by the onset of political transition, is creating a sense of urgency.

Indeed, having its cake and eating it, China is a dialogue partner but not a member of the Mekong River Commission, underscoring its intent not to abide by the Mekong basin community s rules or take on any legal obligations.

A relying party shall bear the legal consequences of its failure

However, legal delays must also be taken into account.

Juridical procedures similar to our case are going to be instrumental in this.

So what should the West do?

We need to move more towards a balance.