Translation of "Transformation fondée sur Agrobacterium " (French → English) :

29. Stresses that environmental sustainability depends on an absolute reduction in resource use; stresses the need to use the current economic crisis for a shift towards a fully renewables based, highly efficient economy; stresses that if Europe’s industry is to succeed in minimizing the use of carbon rich materials as a source of energy and reduce drastically the use of natural resources altogether, rapid and massive transformation is needed; calls in this perspective for the adoption of an ambitious resource efficiency improvemen ...[+++]t target; in this regard welcomes the flagship initiative ‘Resource efficient Europe’ and an ‘industrial policy for the globalisation era’, notes however the absence of policy instruments to deliver the needed change; calls on the Commission to bring forward its analysis of how to achieve the industrial shift towards a fully renewables based, highly efficient economy, revise its work programme and present policy proposals; deeply regrets that the European Council only adopted a position on energy efficiency without any mention of resource efficiency;

Europe can only take a driving position in the global economy if it can successfully guarantee its competitiveness, by adjusting to become a knowledge based society focused upon research and ICT, but how should Europe proceed to become a knowledge based economy?

28. Welcomes the Bureau's intention to revise Parliament's current staff and promotion policy; recalls that merit and performance are the cornerstones of its promotion policy, but that some rigidities, including the system for awarding annual promotion points, have made the implementation of a merit-based policy more difficult; calls upon its Bureau to take a decision in time for the budgetary authority to examine its budgetary implications at first reading in the autumn; postpones also its decision on all further requested special upgradings and conversion of posts until first reading, pending the submission of additional information; authorises the co ...[+++]nversion of five temporary A and five temporary C posts into permanent posts for the future information offices in the prospective Member States; notes the Bureau's decision to suspend temporarily the implementation of Parliament's structured mobility policy, in view of the forthcoming enlargement and the election of a new Parliament;

There was a country, the United States, which had great power, which grew out of the war to free Europe, Africa and Asia from fascism, out of the fight against communism during the Cold War, and now this power is in danger of becoming domination based on the use of force.

– (IT) Madam President, I cannot remain silent for Mr Barón Crespo has, of course, made the most of the opportunity to transform what might actually be well-founded comments into a crusade, which has been on the march ever since the Italian people, of their own free will, elected a new government.

For the time being, as regards the processing of fishery products in the ACP States, the Community declares that it is willing to examine with an open mind requests for derogations from the rules of origin for processed products in this production sector based on the existence of compulsory landing requirements provided for in fishery agreements with third countries.