The promise of European Union membership encouraged institutional reform in central and eastern Europe.
Rather, they say, top of the agenda in the talks with Mr Abbas were Palestinian institutional reform, accountability, law and order and a new political deal.
Mr Cai said the party will "eliminate all ideological and institutional hurdles in order to forge ahead with political reform", the Global Times reports.
All this institutional reform is intended to prepare the Union for its proposed enlargement from today's 15 to 30 or more countries, but for which there is itself no deadline.
Moreover, many European politicians believe the EU has spent more than enough time discussing institutional reform.
When he resigned, the North American cardinals and some Europeans began pushing for deep institutional reform.
President Barroso told MEPs that it was time for the EU to get back to the issue of policy making, after a years of focusing on institutional reform, a viewpoint echoed by Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope .
Fine-tuning their demands and pushing further on institutional reform will probably ensure that no MDB is denied cash, even if the politics are likely to be messy all around.
Perhaps the region first had to stabilise its economies and build its social safety net before embarking on microeconomic and institutional reform.
In countries that lack formal assurances about institutional reform (such as China), commitments on health and education act as signals that the government will do whatever it takes to promote economic development.
At a juncture when the United Nations is in a position to help with serious crises from Lebanon to Iran to North Korea, to undertake sweeping institutional reform and to mount and underwrite massive humanitarian operations worldwide, it is only appropriate that the Foreign Relations Committee and the full Senate now vote swiftly to confirm Mr. Bolton as America's Permanent Representative to the UN.
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