Translation of "Tableau blanc " (French → English) :

If they get money, they can buy a SMART Board, which is an interactive whiteboard that they can do cool things on.

The four key pillars of action established by the White paper are building a solid knowledge base on the impact and consequences of climate change for the Union, integrating adaptation into Union's key policy areas, employing a combination of policy instruments (market-based instruments, guidelines, public-private partnerships) to ensure effective delivery of adaptation and stepping up international cooperation on adaptation, which are currently in the process of being implemented by 33 actions (see table 15 in SWP).

Strongly rejects the systematic violence and the recurrent acts of harassment suffered by the Sakharov Prize laureates the ‘Damas de Blanco’ (‘Ladies in White’) when they peacefully demonstrate and ask for the release of their relatives, incarcerated in Cuba for more than five years now; calls on its President to reiterate to the Cuban authorities its request that Oswaldo Payá, winner of the Sakharov Prize in 2002, be permitted, in accordance with the invitation extended to him by the European institutions to appear before them in person and explain the current political situation in Cuba; further calls on its President to express to t ...[+++]he Cuban authorities Parliament's strong wish and determination to welcome, in the coming weeks, the ‘Damas de Blanco’ to one of Parliament's places of work for the official presentation to them of the 2005 Sakharov Prize;

149. Strongly rejects the systematic violence and the recurrent acts of harassment suffered by the Sakharov Prize laureates the "Damas de Blanco" ("Ladies in White") when they peacefully demonstrate and ask for the release of their relatives, incarcerated in Cuba for more than five years now; calls on its President to reiterate to the Cuban authorities its request that Oswaldo Payá, winner of the Sakharov Prize in 2002, be permitted, in accordance with the invitation extended to him by the European institutions to appear before them in person and explain the current political situation in Cuba; further calls on its President to express ...[+++] to the Cuban authorities Parliament's strong wish and determination to welcome, in the coming weeks, the "Damas de Blanco" to one of Parliament's places of work for the official presentation to them of the 2005 Sakharov Prize;

A first estimate of the European public expenditure needed to implement the White paper action plan is presented in Table 3; the evolutions of the different options are shown in Graphic 1 (without inflation).

I can assure you of only one thing: the method adopted by the Commission is a method which genuinely does start from the drawing board (whiteboard, not blackboard), upon which we must set down our ideas regarding what would be best for the future of the institutions for which we are responsible.