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Recent Examples of concordatThe country signed a concordat, or agreement, with the Vatican in 1954 making Catholicism the state religion, though the constitution allows freedom of worship.—Carmen Sesin, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2025 Pope Pius VII signed a concordat with Napoleon (whose troops controlled Rome) and traveled to Paris for his coronation as emperor in 1804.—Paul Elie, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022 One poll showed that 78% of respondents across France supported abrogation of the 1801 concordat in Alsace-Moselle.—Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 22 June 2021 After the fall of communism in 1989, Poland signed several concordats to hand back communal lands that had been seized, including one with the Jewish community, which lodged more than 5,000 claims.—Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2019 Since the concordat was launched, public support for animal research has stabilized in the United Kingdom, although showing cause and effect is difficult.—Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 14 July 2017
Or to put it another way, the nation states, treaties, and climate summits make up the globe, while climate modeling and evolution and the periodic table of elements and carbon cycle are what define the planet.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
The last nuclear arms pact, known as the New START treaty, between Russia and the United States expired in February, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century.
Taiwanese legislators subsequently approved a $25 billion special defense budget on Friday, a move the senators pointed to as a sign the island is living up to its end of the bargain.
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David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
11 May 2026
In fairness, so did everyone else, and with the signing window coming to a close, the White Sox were able to nab Murakami for a (now bargain) two-year, $34 million deal.