Second, the EU is the only natural American ally in terms of values.

The Millennium Development Goals reflect our shared values about basic human rights the right to live in dignity.

The EU observers also announced that the election tally had not met basic international standards.

Finally, if anything good comes out of this global financial crisis, it will be a reassessment of our basic values and priorities.

We cannot turn our backs on these basic values and the duties they impose on all countries and Governments.

Balancing Act Press Freedom at Risk as EU Struggles to Match Action With Values Committee to Protect Journalists

NEW YORK The recent death of Norman Borlaug provides an opportune moment to reflect on basic values and on our economic system.

This is a matter of human rights and basic values, and it is vital to peace and cohesion in societies across Europe.

If Yanukovych has not amnestied Tymoshenko by then, the EU can, as the Polish MEP Jacek Saryusz Wolski suggests, wait for a Ukrainian president that will uphold EU values.

Otherwise, arms will be twisted, and there is a real risk that an agreement will sacrifice basic values to commercial interests.

The Eastern Partnership is about EU integration, about the six countries moving closer to the EU s values, legislation, and ways of working, and about the EU being there to support and help this convergence.

In fact, although the basic values behind any constitutional democracy are universal and well accepted by many countries around the world, how well institutions work and adequately reflect those values is an open ended process.

If anti doping authorities truly care about sports, then they have a responsibility to re examine the basic values that underpin their work.

If the EU focuses on infusing its goods and services with Europe s guiding ideas and values, its economy will reap significant rewards.

But the EU will succeed in transposing its laws, norms, and values to accession candidates only if applicant governments take its promises seriously.

The EU must decide whether it represents a community of values or a narrowly defined geographic entity whose exclusionary impulses will eventually erode its global relevance.

As a last resort, the EU must even be prepared to rise to the military defense of the values and principles it believes are worth protecting.

At the beginning of the twenty first century, we continue to face many threats and challenges that undermine the basic values and principles of our societies and test our will and determination to abide by the obligations and restraints inherent in those values and principles.

Furthermore, derogation from a right enshrined in a basic law may only be made if it is pursuant to the values of the State and for a worthy purpose .

Based on such basic principles of democracy and rotation, Costa Rica values proposals that in expanding the Security Council would create new seats subject to periodic elections and to accountability.

We must build a new system based on the accepted and proclaimed values of transparency and responsibility, basic pillars upon which to build a more democratic and fairer international system.

These rising powers raise problems regarding Russia s geo strategic choices.For the first time in decades, the values gap between Russia and the EU appears to be increasing.

Through its wide ranging experience of convergence of national interests and values, the EU has emerged as a model of multilateralism and as the most powerful normative actor in all areas of governance.

Values are derived using the 2006 values of the fundamental constants.

The sociological imperative behind the spread of political correctness is the fact that we no longer live in patriarchal, hierarchical, mono cultural societies, which exhibit general, if unreflective, agreement on basic values.

Thus, today's commemoration is an occasion to recall once again the basic values that guided the creation of the United Nations, our inestimable common heritage, whose Charter embodies and expresses essential lessons.

What is clear, according to Böhringer and Keller, is that the EU Climate and Energy Package violates basic principles of cost effectiveness, if the sole objective is emission reduction.

Since the EU is a community of values, the new entrants would, in forging ahead with their public administration revitalization plans, need to bring recruitment, promotion and service delivery standards up to the EU level and ensure that public officials subscribe to a common code of professional ethics.

While that outcome remains unlikely, it is increasingly clear that many European countries and the EU as a whole need to renegotiate their basic social contracts.

For instance, under article 1(7) of EU Directive 2004 18 EC, electronic auction is defined as a repetitive process involving an electronic device for presentation of new prices and or new values.

Of course, this does not mean that the EU could or would want to conquer the rest of the world in the name of imposing its values, rules and culture on the rest of humanity.

From the current Russian regime s perspective, declarations that EU and NATO expansion is about spreading values, accountable institutions, and good governance, not military or economic competition, is beyond hypocritical.

Refusing to countenance a fresh eastward enlargement means that, at some point, those countries that are outside the EU will start to threaten the values that he holds dear.

The US may have less control in the future, but it may find itself living in a world somewhat more congenial to its basic values of democracy, free markets, individual liberties, and human rights.

Europe s Crisis of Values