projects for developing less developed regions

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The economies of our developed world are seriously affected.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

PRESIDENT statement made by the President in Office of the European Council, which I believe is sufficiently important in its own right.

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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.

Only about 15 of the world s population lives in developed economies.

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

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.

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.

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

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And they are regionally separated.

Past debate on this has been

These aids may be differentiated by region.

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The same thing is also happening elsewhere.

telecommunications.

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.

Whatever countermeasures are developed for astronauts could very much be translatable to a benefit on earth.

As well as regions of the Union, this could cover comparable regions in non member countries.

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.

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).

Nor does it pit Europe against other regions.