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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The economies of our developed world are seriously affected.

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).

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.

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 ?

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.

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

CARVALHO CARDOSO (PPE), in writing. (PT) I voted in favour of this excellent report because the resolution which it contains is balanced and fair to one of the most important industrial sectors of the Community, which is subject to strong external commercial pressure and is right in the middle of the process of restructuring, particularly in the less developed regions of the Community.

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

Among the regions most badly hit by the closures, Emilia Romagna takes the lead with 82 single hall cinemas lost, followed by Tuscany (44), and by Lombardy (41).

But a very simple analysis shows that it is precisely in those regions that there is least evidence of European Community initiatives.

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

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