Translation of "Tirer quelqu'un d'un mauvais pas " (French → English) :

While the different stages of development make it difficult to design policies that are applicable throughout Europe, this provides a huge potential for learning from good practices, for instance by adapting policy measures that previously proved to be successful in another Member State or region.

Examples of such measures are the increase and improvement in effectiveness of investments in education; the reduction of early school leavers and of low achievers; and increased participation in mathematics, science, technology and engineering studies.

Although the success of prevention and activation depends on many contextual and individual factors, some general conclusions can be drawn as to the effectiveness of typical measures : training measures prove to be effective for particular target groups (e.g. women re-entering the labour market, educated immigrants) ; the results with subsidised employment are mixed (subsidised employment in the private sector being more effective than job creation in the public sector) ; self employment grants show positive results, although the scope for wide application of such formula may be limited ; job-search assistance as a basic measure seems ...[+++] generally effective ; the experience shows that the effects of large scale non-personalised programmes (such as for youth) are less convincing, reflecting the fact that larger programmes may suffer from inadequate targeting.

Certain intermediaries and advisors no doubt knew Parmalat was a highly risky asset, but some may only have used that information to pass on the risk to others minimising their own risks or to generate profit for themselves.

70. We reaffirm our unreserved condemnation of terrorism in all its forms, wherever and whenever it occurs, whatever its motives and origin, our opposition to making concessions to terrorist demands and our determination to prevent those committing terrorist crimes from deriving any benefit whatsoever from their acts.

Air transport Let me take the example of air transport and draw some lessons from the American experience.