Translation of "problème avec micro-univers de travail " (French → English) :

36. Urges the Community institutions and Member States to work with industry and address problems (such as micro-payments, security and trust, interoperability and digital rights management) that hamper the development of new business models in the field of broadband;

35. Urges the Community institutions and Member States to work with industry and address problems (such as micro-payments, security and trust, interoperability and Digital Rights Management) that hamper the development of new business models in the field of broadband;

I can only urge the committee to try to address those kinds of issues, encouraging CIDA to alter its mandate appropriately, to encourage departments to work together, so there is a way of actually finding a way to deal with micro-credit as well as food insecurity issues all at the same time, and when we do send our officials off to international meetings they are all singing from the same songbook, their goals are the same, we develop some serious and consistent goals for Canada in food security, and everybody tries to work towards that goal and sees it as the base.

- 2 - Possible topics of research are : 1. the Community's internal market programme raises many issues of microeconomic analysis, including industrial organisation zand the economics of regulatory policies (e.g. standards) that deserve urgent attention; 2. European integration economics, including issues of intra-European regional North-South relations, raises a further set of issues not well covered by the research community; 3. the determinants of economic growth in Western Europe, including dynamic factors such as advanced technology and innovation, and constraints, such as environmental concerns; 4. so-called "systemic" issues in the monetary areas and macroeconomic and fiscal policy coordination ...[+++]have received increasing academic attention in recent years, but rarely dealing adequately with their intra-European as compared to their international aspects; 5. problems of trade policy and the role of Western Europe in the international division of labour; 6. employment and social policy issues, which have quite different characteristics in Western Europe, compared to the United States or Japan; 7. methodological and modelling problems relevant to the above mentioned subjects or otherwise of fundamental interest.

- 2 - Main topics of research will be : 1. the Community's internal market programme raises many issues of microeconomic analysis, including industrial organisation and the economics of regulatory policies (e.g. standards) that deserve urgent attention; 2. European integration economics, including issues of intra- European regional North- South relations, raises a further set of issues not well covered by the research community; 3. the determinants of economic growth in Western Europe, including dynamic factors such as advanced technology and innovation, and constraints, such as environmental concerns; 4. so-called "systemic" issues in the monetary areas and macroeconomic and fiscal policy coordination ...[+++]have received increasing academic attention in recent years, but rarely dealing adequately with their intra-European as compared to their international aspects; 5. problems of trade policy and the role of Western Europe in the international division of labour; 6. employment and social policy issues, which have quite different characteristics in Western Europe, compared to the United States or Japan; 7. methodological and modelling problems relevant to the above mentioned subjects or otherwise of fundamental interest.

The Steering Group emphasized the advantages of being able to discuss macroeconomic and microeconomic structural problems in that developments in this field were not without repercussions on employment, notably in view of the likelihood of economic and monetary union, and it was agreed to look into the possibility of setting up a specialized working party in this field.