Traduction de «Le Monde des affaires aujourd'hui » (Français → Anglais) :

17. Welcomes the intensified EU-Russia dialogue on energy issues; underlines the importance of energy imports for European economies, representing as they do a potential opportunity for further trade and economic cooperation between the EU and Russia; stresses that the principles of interdependence and transparency should be the basis of such cooperation, together with equal access to markets, strategic independence, infrastructure and investment; notes with concern that the destruction of Yukos, the political persecution of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who has been incarcerated for four years and should now be eligible for parole, and the recent pressure exerted on Russneft is creating serious uncertainty in the business commu ...[+++]nity; calls on the Council and the Commission to ensure that the principles of the Energy Charter Treaty, the Transit Protocol annexed thereto and the G8 conclusions are incorporated in a new PCA between the EU and Russia;

To deny this possibility to companies as a matter of principle or by failing to implement correctly the provisions of the EC sectoral legislation introducing competition in the markets – such as energy, telecoms and financial services – would amount to a serious restriction of their ability to adapt to the challenges presented by the integration of markets in the EU, to the rapid advances in technology which many industries are experiencing, and generally to the evolving dynamics of doing business in the Europe of today.

Erkki Liikanen, EU Commissioner responsible for Enterprise and the Information Society, today launched in Shanghai a series of EU-WTO Seminars, aimed at increasing understanding within the Chinese business community on how WTO membership affects the way China deals with the outside world.

Parliament will vote today on whether to have a say in the priorities and running of this programme, the European democracy initiative, because the resolution put forward by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy today points out that this fund, which uniquely requires no host country consent, should be more focused, especially on what I describe as the 'arc of instability' from Russia to Morocco, where democracy is fragile, or on the Arab world, where it is non-existent.

Grandparents have built and shaped our world of today and with our gratitude and will as parliamentarians we can make them an integral part of the world of tomorrow.

The current Russian business establishment, now known as the " oligarchs" and infamous for its near-monopoly levels of control and connections to organized crime, is deeply hostile both to structural change and to new investment.