Translation of "Doctrine économique axée sur l'offre " (French → English) :

I said that this debate should not be about ideology, it should be about people, the people of Colombia whose lives have been ripped apart and turned upside down by civil war and narco-politics, the good, decent and proud people of Colombia who deserve a better future and the kind of economic opportunities provided by legitimate trade.

Trade-based economic adjustment and growth will only be achieved through substantially increased funding for TRA and supply side development.

The Commission will also launch a public tender for studies in this area that will include ‘motivational and desisting factors for violent radicalisation’ and ‘socio-economic factors contributing to violent radicalisation’.

In this context, three policy adjustments are proposed: a) to the needs (the demand) for social policy to address mainly new problems which are linked to unemployment, the transition to new economic conditions and to global realignments, b) at the delivery (the supply) of social policy through the adaptation of the administrative structures to serve the new role of the social policy, and c) to obtain new ways of information handling (both statistical indicators and administrative information).Overall, the NAPincl mo ...[+++]ves along four strategic directions: (1) continued macro economic expansion, (2) employment policy aimed against unemployment and in favour of flexibility in the labour market (aiding women and low income groups), (3) a series of reforms in areas linked to exclusion (Health, Welfare, Education, social security, public administration, decentralisation), (4) and three new targeted initiatives to be introduced in January 2002.

At the same time, the Commission, in the course of dealing with numerous suspected cases of infringement of Community law brought to its notice through complaints, has evolved an approach based, among other things, on points connected with the concepts of a work, entry in a trade register, additional conditions not provided for by the directives, discriminatory clauses, references to national technical rules, the procedure for the submission of bids, special security measures or measures to protect the vital security interests of a Member State and proof of a firm's financial and economic ...[+++] standing.

It is proposed to concentrate IMP measures on these priorities : * Giving additional incentives to the development of the inner areas; * Taking proper advantage of infrastructure work carried out previously : - The regulation of rivers has already made it possible to develop a modern valley-bottoms road network, thereby opening up the region to economic development (artificial lakes with their tourist potential, land made available for cultivation or industrial development). - Improvement and irrigation of the Metaponto has already led to the development of efficient agriculture and spa tourism, and should serve as a basis for improved ...[+++]exploitation and marketing of agricultural and tourist produts.