Translation of "Internalization-based attitude " (English → French) :

D. whereas many Europeans expect from the new US administration a cooperative attitude in the international field and a strengthening of the EU-US relationship, based on mutual respect and mutual understanding of the partners' constraints and priorities,

It is based on this attitude of the ‘superiority’ of the ‘values’ and conduct of the EU that frequent attempts are made to use election observation missions as an instrument of pressure and interference in the internal affairs of countries, mainly those which insist on development projects based on an affirmation of national sovereignty and independence.

In this way, the politically and popularly prevailing sense of reactionary attitudes may be replaced by a rational approach and consideration for social and political change towards a more democratic and human rights-based world society (1215) While the above-mentioned points are taken into consideration for a more positive perspective on international relations with Muslim countries, my fifth point is that Islam as religion, culture, politics, and society may be studied in historical and modern contexts.

The European Council notes with satisfaction that work in progress in the organs of European political cooperation has already, by comparing national policies on arms exports, identified a number of common criteria on which these policies are based, such as: - respect for the international commitments of the member States of the Community, in particular the sanctions decreed by the Security Council of the United Nations and those decreed by the Community, agreements on non-proliferation and other subjects, as well as other international obligations; - the respect of human rights in the country of final destination; - the internal situa ...[+++]tion in the country of final destination, as a function of the existence of tensions or internal armed conflicts; - the preservation of regional peace, security and stability; - the national security of the member States and of territories whose external relations are the responsibility of a member State, as well as that of friendly and allied countries; - the behaviour of the buyer country with regard to the international community, as regards in particular its attitude to terrorism, the nature of its alliances, and respect for international law; - the existence of a risk that the equipment will be diverted within the buyer country or re-exported under undesirable conditions.

In Canada, we have taken an attitude, which I have to admit I promoted strongly, which is to try to get down our corporate tax rates to try to prevent some of this base erosion that was happening at the international level.