Translation of "Voie de relation " (French → English) :

raising public awareness of development issues and promoting education for development in the Community and in acceding countries, to anchor development policy in European societies, to mobilise greater public support in the Community and acceding countries for action against poverty and for fairer relations between developed and developing countries, to raise awareness in the Community of the issues and difficulties facing developing countries and their peoples, and to promote the social dimension of globalisation;

Full integration into the Barcelona process is the first step towards new relations with the EU, which include the negotiation of an Association Agreement.

I believe it is very important that the Spanish Presidency takes the helm once again, places Latin America on the continent’s navigation charts and, like in the Fifteenth Century, supports, in this new era, the link between the European Union and Latin America.

"During the second phase, the aim will be to complete the network's coverage in the Member States and to improve yet further the operational effectiveness of the network, to work closely with safer Internet awareness actions, particularly so as to increase public awareness of the hotlines, to provide practical assistance to candidate and accession countries wishing to set up hotlines, to adapt best practice guidelines to new technology, and to expand links with hotlines outside Europe".

EU aims with the Stabilisation and Association Process (SAP) to help these countries to address these institutional challenges, to enter into a partnership relation and gain back ownership and to progress on the way to European integration.

Major recent developments with respect to the Korean Peninsula have included the considerable steps forward in political liberalisation and economic reform in South Korea under President Kim Dae-Jung; the beginning of a thaw in inter-Korean relations with the "sunshine policy" of President Kim and his summit meeting last year with the North Korean President Kim Jong-il; and, in our bilateral relations, the coming into force on 1 April 2001 of the EU South Korea Framework Agreement and its attached political declaration, underlining the increasing strength of our economic and political relations, as well as the recent opening of diploma ...[+++]tic relations with the DPRK.