Alexis Tsipras
Alexis Tsipras

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Anna Lindh
Anna Lindh

We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

Athanasios Orphanides
Athanasios Orphanides

Cyprus had developed its financial center over three decades ago by having double taxation treaties with a number of countries: the Soviet Union, for example. That means if profits are booked and earned and taxed in Cyprus, they are not taxed again in the other country.

Barry Gardiner
Barry Gardiner

Treaties negotiated with foreign powers create binding obligations on future generations that cannot be repealed in the way that domestic law can. As a consequence, the most rigorous process should be in place to scrutinise such treaties before they ever come to be ratified.

Beeban Kidron
Beeban Kidron

Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.

Bianca Jagger
Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead.

Chuck Fleischmann
Chuck Fleischmann

We live in a dangerous world, and Russia has not complied with existing treaties.