Translation of "Division des analyses économique et institutionnelle " (French → English) :

AC. whereas the recent economic crisis has made the difficulties of media titles worse and, with the increasing precariousness of the journalist’s role, has made the mediascape more vulnerable to economic and political pressure, as well as more fragile in itself; whereas these phenomena have had particular consequences for those journalistic genres which are more expensive or take more time to develop, such as investigative journalism, reportage, and the posting of international and European correspondents; whereas these types of journalism are essential to guarantee responsibility and accountability on the part of public and political ...[+++] authorities, to stop abuses of economic and institutional power, and to ensure the uncovering and prosecution of criminal activity in the social, environmental and humanitarian areas; calls on the Commission to conduct a study of the effects of the crisis and of precarious employment on the journalistic community, with a view to analysing and endeavouring to remedy the consequences for media freedom and pluralism;

16. Insists there is a need for greater scientific cooperation between the Union and Asia in further investigating other options to ship dismantling and their implications in a more integrated way, including environmental, social, economic and institutional aspects; believes that, in this connection, the Union should promote the transfer of relevant technologies and best practices;

I have with me my colleagues from the Department of Finance: Mr. Randall Meades, who's on the personal income tax side and does a lot of the economic analysis applicable to the agricultural sector; Mr. Kerry Harnish, who's a senior tax policy officer with the finance department in the tax legislation group; Mr. Bill MacGregor, who's a farm expert on the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency; as well as Mr. Phil Jolie, who is the coordinator of a number of different sections, including the agriculture sector.

(3) The analysis of cyclical movements in the European Union economy and the conduct of monetary policy within the Economic and Monetary Union require macroeconomic statistics on the economic behaviour and the interrelationship of individual institutional sectors which are impossible to identify in data compiled at the level of the economy as a whole.

His report starts with an analysis of the institutional and legislative framework that has been designed for the region and of the potential of the modern democratic structures that these have lead to. The report takes account, of course, of the particular culture and the specific historical, social and economic bonds that underpin Macau’s relationship with Portugal and the European Union on the one hand, and with the People’s Republic of China, on the other.

The document provides a first analysis of economic and institutional consequences of the introduction of the euro as an international currency alongside the dollar and the yen.