Translation of "échelle de mesure de l'estime de soi de Rosenberg " (French → English) :

19. Welcomes the ECB's longer-term refinancing operations (LTRO); calls on the ECB to further act in a decisive way in addressing the current euro-area debt crisis by maintaining price stability while at the same time minimising negative spill-over effects on the real economy and the investments that the banking sector's liquidity problems might generate; believes that the banking sector must take the necessary steps to address its structural weaknesses with regard to longer-term liquidity risks in order to restore investor confidence ...[+++] and therefore to avoid the need for the ECB to intervene so massively in future; considers that the bank's operational framework should be shaped in such a way that a proportion of the grants would be made available for development purposes and to support small and medium-sized enterprises;

On 8 March 2013, RAC adopted by consensus its opinion on the restriction proposed in the Annex XV dossier. According to the RAC opinion, the restriction is the most appropriate Union-wide measure to address the identified risks posed by DCB used as an air freshener or deodoriser in toilets, homes, offices or other indoor public areas, both in terms of effectiveness and practicability.

3. Points out that the G20 summit failed to deliver on a global coordinated fiscal stimulus package, thanks to the EU's opposition to such a move; stresses that the summit's alleged $ 1,100 billion 'global boost package' (IMF funding, trade finance, aid for the poorest countries, allocation of special drawing rights) consists mainly of monies already committed earlier and that only about $ 100 billion correspond to genuinely new commitments; deplores the fact that the poorer economies, as those hit hardest by the global recession, will therefore not receive the necessary assistance for overcoming the crisis;

CONSIDERS that adult learning can make an important contribution to meeting such needs by providing not only economic and social benefits, such as greater employability, access to better-quality jobs, more responsible citizenship and increased civic participation, but also individual benefits such as greater self-fulfilment, improved health and well-being and enhanced self-esteem, and accordingly that:

Could the Commission estimate the implications for the EU as a whole in public health and economic terms of active and passive smoking in the workplace, and does it intend to draft EU legislation outlawing smoking in all places of work?

The stakeholders considered that the following approaches to stop EU-level relevant infringements would be most effective: (i) an obligation for Member States to alert other Member States about any enforcement action taken; (ii) obligation for the Member States to notify cases corresponding to defined criteria of EU-level relevance; (iii) mandatory joint enforcement actions; and (iv) mutual recognition of enforcement decisions.