Translation of "to play in a conference " (English → French) :

Acknowledging in its conclusions of 20 June 2008 that high food prices were affecting the situation of the world’s poorest populations and putting at risk progress towards the achievement of all Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Council adopted an EU Agenda for Action on MDGs which states that the European Union is committed, in line with the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Conference Declaration adopted by the FAO High Level Conference on World Food Security on 5 June 2008 (the ‘FAO Conference Declaration’), ...[+++]to promote a global partnership for food and agriculture and wishes to play a substantial role in helping to bridge part of the financing gap by 2010 in the areas of agriculture, food security and rural development.

The Commission will: ensure, through an internal network, that all departments apply its multilingualism policy in a coherent way; continue to foster multilingualism on its Internet portal (Europa) and in its publications; launch a Languages portal on Europa providing information about multilingualism in the European Union and accommodating new portals dedicated to language learners and language teachers; give a greater role to its translation field offices in the Member States in promoting multilingualism, particularly through the customisation of the Commission’s messages for local target audiences; organise high-level seminars on multilingualism in the Member States, targeted at journalists and other opinion multipliers; continue to ...[+++] offer universities grants and teaching assistance in the field of conference interpreting, help develop distance learning tools and fund student bursaries and training visits; continue to develop cost-effective multilingual conferencing and communication tools under the Commission’s project on the interoperable delivery of pan-European e-government services to public administrations, businesses and citizens; [38] support the European Master’s in Conference Interpreting and the European Master’s in Conference Management, thereby enhancing co-operation, pooling expertise and disseminating best practice in these fields; continue to play a full part in the International Annual Meeting on Language Arrangements, Documentation and Publication, a body which discusses new job and skills requirements; continue to provide universities with a model curriculum of a Master’s degree in translation and supply visiting translators to help train students in translation; and organise an international translation competition between schools in Member States, to promote language knowledge and the language professions. |

The Commission played an important role in the preparation of the 2005 Kobe World Conference on Disaster Reduction, and sees the Hyogo Declaration and Framework for Action 2005-2015 adopted at that conference as the starting point for its strategy.

Speaking points of press conference on the state of play of enlargement

- The European Union has a long-standing engagement to promoting gender equality and has played an active role in international conferences advocating womens' rights, notably at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, 1995.

In selecting members, the minister ensures that the expertise is well matched to the issues to be addressed and that the delegation is representative of the diversity of Canadian interests at play in the conference.