If a compliance issue arises and a party wants American personnel to serve as "honest brokers" to mediate the issue or monitor specific treaty conditions, that party could invite those personnel in on a case by case basis.

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Christian Noyer, the vice president of the European Central Bank, as well as figures from the mighty German Bundesbank, don't want any countries to use the euro until they have painfully satisfied all the Maastricht Treaty conditions, like balancing the government budget, or at least coming reasonably close.

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Will the American converts, having demonstrated good intent, proceed to weaken the treaty by insisting on conditions and exceptions?

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In the meantime there are some very positive signs: The decision of the German Constitutional Court to approve the ratification of the ESM treaty with only minor conditions was one of them.

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Bush said the antiballistic missile treaty was signed under different conditions, when the Soviet Union and the United States were engaged in a "hostile rivalry" and security came through a nuclear weapons buildup on both sides.

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The Dutch presidency's draft treaty had proposed letting the EC make laws by majority vote in new areas such as working conditions and worker consultation.

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