Because of its size, its pledge in 1994 to achieve free trade in the region is potentially the most far-reaching economic agreement in history.
The government in Kiev appeared to show a new if tempered willingness to back up its pledge in recent days to restore order.
Sweden is bearing a disproportional burden of the European refugee crisis, due in part to its pledge in 2013 to provide permanent residency to almost any Syrian who reached Swedish soil.
Two years ago, Jobs & Money revealed how the promise seemed to be unravelling, and now the Edinburgh-based firm looks to be ditching its pledge in an attempt to keep the City sweet ahead of a planned stock market flotation.
The number of advisers has also increased to more than 100 for the first time under the coalition, despite its pledge in 2010 to limit the number of "spads".
Parisa Zagat, Policy Programs Manager at Facebook, related the partnership with Pathstream to its pledge in June to train 1 million U.S. small business owners on the digital skills they need to compete in today's workplace.
Compared with what it pledged in its business plan before Christmas, there will now be £63m less spent on day-to-day operation of the network, and £60m less on capital investment next year.
After the U.S. Supreme Court last month ruled to delay implementation of Obama's Clean Power Plan on fighting emissions from power plants, new methane regulations could help Washington meet its pledges made in Paris.
The coalition government announced public sector "transparency" as one of its key pledges in 2010.
That the Blair government failed lamentably to fulfil its pledges is not in doubt; but it did erect many of the hurdles such as more transparent reporting of political contributions that it then stumbled at.
