The rules of the Stability and Growth Pact - which govern the euro - had been reinforced.
As in ignoring that Haiti sits on two seismic fault lines, but choosing to go with the pact-with-the-devil-to-explain-the-earthquake kind of dumb.
The first readings of the security deal and another U.S.-Iraqi bilateral pact -- the strategic framework agreement -- were held in parliament Monday.
Ironically, Nicolas Sarkozy, finance minister of the other big pact-breaker, France, this week promised to do more to cut spending to get back below the ceiling.
Politically they understand it will be difficult for Mr Hollande to back away from his pledge to renegotiate the pact - at least until after the parliamentary elections in June.
The last Lib-Lab pact, in 1977-78 during the premiership of James Callaghan, ended in tears.
Following the weekend political developments in France and the Netherlands, the German-inspired fiscal pact, agreed by euro-zone leaders in Brussels in December, could also be delayed or thrown into question.
Toyota and BMW said they would expand a technology-sharing pact to speed the development of fuel-cell vehicles.
The decline of MySpace is a tale with echoes of the ill-fated pact AOL made with Time Warner: A high-flying Internet venture gets caught in a culture clash precipitated by joining a big media conglomerate.
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And yet, the results of the Non-Aggression Pact and its secret protocol live on while the Nazi-Soviet Trade Agreement holds lessons to this day.
After the results of two devolution referendums in Scotland and Wales went against the now minority Labour government - the Lib-Lab pact of the previous year was well and truly over - the nationalists withdrew their support from Labour.
However a pact between CiU - Mr Mas's centre-right nationalist coalition - and Esquerra Republicana will not be easy.
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Among the novelties this election has thrown up, thanks to the non-aggression pact between the two parties, is Britain's first fixed-term parliament.
This reflects a sharp drop in house prices and sales, cutting tax revenues and pushing the budget deficit close to the stability-pact ceiling this year, and probably over it in 2009.
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Ireland this week became the first euro-area member to declare that it would bust the stability-pact ceiling on budget deficits of 3% of GDP next year: it expects a deficit closer to 6%.
Maynard, who will segue into a first-look producing pact with CBS (nyse: CBS - news - people ) after stepping down from his current position late last week, is credited with convincing CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves to take a chance on the controversial Swedish concept Survivor some eight years ago.
Only exports most affected by the China-ASEAN pact are to be freed on signature in June, and agreements on intellectual-property rights and investment-protection are to be negotiated.
Mr Kennedy says he expects Labour to honour its pledge but he strenuously denies any suggestion of a pre-election pact between himself and the prime minister to introduce the lesser form of proportional representation - the Alternative Vote system.
The administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush scrapped a nuclear-freeze agreement with North Korea in 2002 over allegations that Pyongyang abrogated the pact by exploring uranium-enrichment activities.
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Detroit ultimately, albeit reluctantly, acquiesced to a U.S.-South Korea trade pact touching on similar issues of non-tariff barriers to trade that Japan raises.
Hitler's plan to attack Poland predates the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, so that deal, shameful though it was, did not provide the definitive go-ahead for the invasion.
The Non-Aggression Pact and its secret Protocol were signed on 23 August 1939, along the lines of the Soviet-proposed draft and after only a few hours of discussion.
While less well understood, the Non-Aggression Pact is also relevant to the contemporary international environment because it was in considerable measure the product of a German-Soviet commercial relationship that is structurally similar to current FRG-Soviet trade and financial relations.
The movie is a Latino-Anglo solidarity pact: for all the cultural differences and bantering, the two men share a single-minded devotion to keeping order or, at least, controlling disorder.
Kyocera and Johnson Matthey are hot on Ibiden's tail with a technology-sharing pact, as are others.
In 1993, Chevron signed a 40-year pact with Kazakstan to exploit the Tengiz fields.
After that, the chances of getting the power-sharing pact through Parliament all but evaporated.
The president's comments came as trade representatives from the United States and Jordan signed a free-trade pact.
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