projects for developing less developed regions

Furthermore, the growth rate in China s less developed eastern regions amounts to less than half of the national average.

The initiative will offer Community support for training and higher qualifications for women particularly in the less developed areas.

Digital mapping technology is having the most profound impact on the world s most remote and undeveloped regions.

This would instantly augment growth in less developed regions and boost overall productivity.

Finally, particular care should be devoted to the organisation and ranking of the European qualification systems proposed most appropriately by the Commission and improved by Mr Samland.

Already there has been support for many of our proposals from the Belgian, Dutch and Greek Governments in particular and, from the Italian Parliament which has endorsed our proposals. How ever, I would like to dwell today on the Commission's position which has just recently been revealed in its formal opinion to the intergovernmental conference.

But the programmes are too narrow when they are intended for specified groups only.

A superpower not only wishes to defend its territory, it also wants to secure its interests internationally.

I therefore call on the Commission once again to stand by the Parliament.

In the framework of these actions it is also necessary to provide for exchanges of experience at the Community level to transfer know how and good techniques to objective 1 regions which are less advanced than the other regions of the Community.

It remains to be seen whether the impact on the less developed Member States will be more severe than elsewhere.

The European Regional Development Fund is intended to help to redress the main regional imbalances in the Union through participation in the development and structural adjustment of regions whose development is lagging behind and in the conversion of declining industrial regions.

This implies that closing the persistent digital divide between the world s developed and developing regions could give a big boost to development.

First, the capacity for fiscal intervention at least among developed economies has been underutilized.

If convergence across regions in terms of income and productivity levels is incomplete , structural inflation differentials may arise between regions to allow price ( and income ) levels in the less developed areas to catch up with those in the more mature economies within the union .

PEREIRA (LDR). (PT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think there is a very obvious need to create a concerted Community regional planning policy favouring the channelling of a part of investment to the less developed regions of the EEC.

In particular, the Union shall aim at reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions.

The Member States take note of the fact that the Spanish Government has embarked upon the implementation of a policy of regional development designed in particular to stimulate economic growth in the less developed regions and areas of Spain.

As today, support would be differentiated between regions based on their level of economic development (measured by GDP per capita), drawing a clear distinction between less and more developed regions.

Euroform 300 MECU concerns the improvement of employment opportunities, new qualifications and competences, which shall also aim at reducing the gap between levels of qualifications in the less developed regions and the rest of the Community.

We could therefore describe it as an easy option for Community regional policy, without meaning to be derogatory.

With reference to the research carried out in Community programmes, I wish to mention in par ticular the PAGIS programme, carried out between 1982 and 1989, and devoted specifically to the study of the safety of storing underground highly active waste in a variety of mediums such as salt, granite and clay as well as on the seabed.

How are we to reduce the growing operating deficits, and how are we to resolve the unequal treatment of this mode of transport with regard to infrastructure costs ?

What can I do today, except say that we generally endorse these two reports, and then dwell at slightly greater length on the question of institutional balance and the powers of Parliament, since Mr Martin says that this is an area in which we should clarify our positions and institute dialogue.

The Committee on Women's Rights asked that it be allowed to present the third programme, not because we wanted to be in the limelight, nor because we felt we just had to, but because we want to use this report to show what the situation is concerning the employment of women.

For that reason, regional policy focuses its attention on the need of the poorest regions and concentrates Community aid on investment in infrastructure and industry of benefit to those regions.

With a view to allowing beekeepers to share in the benefits to be obtained from the reformed structural policy of the Community, a number of Member States have included beekeeping as a diversification axis under the rural development objective (No. 5b), and in respect of delayed development regions (No. 1).

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NOTING that the European Investment Bank is lending large and increasing amounts for the benefit of the poorer regions

As is mentioned in the Commission's proposal, the socioeconomic state of certain people has significantly worsened vis à vis the average population. These are

The Member States recognise in particular that, in the application of Articles III 167 and III 168 of the Constitution, it will be necessary to take into account the objectives of economic expansion and the raising of the standard of living of the population of the less developed regions and areas of Spain.

Its purpose is to accommodate the large muscles moving the well developed mandibles.

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Past debate on this has been

There may be grounds for criticizing the use of artificial fertilizers or other chemical products.

While energy balances are being turned upside down and the Community energy policy requires more clarity and cohesion, the new Community programme is aimed at providing valuable services to the less developed regions of the Community, especially those which are more prone to energy crises.

This is as true in developed as it is in developing economies.

Early history The ideas behind the Hedgehog were originally developed in the English Opening.

This would, for example, render the distinction between compulsory and non compulsory expenditure completely obsolete, even though we may have regarded it as such since 1988, and would mean that the presence of representatives of the Council at Parliament's budget debates and voting would have to be reciprocated by the attendance of a parliamentary delegation at Council discussions and voting on the budget.

been comparably less successful in increasing the incentives for the unemployed to take up work opportunities . Lower taxes on labour support employment

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The economies of our developed world are seriously affected.