Translation of "national government " (English → French) :

4. Urges national parliaments to strengthen their efforts to hold national governments to account for their management of the spending of EU funds; invites national parliaments to scrutinise the quality of national impact assessments and the manner in which national governments transpose EU law into domestic law and implement EU policies and funding programmes at the level of the state, regions and local authorities; requests national parliaments to monitor rigorously the reporting of the national action plans of the Lisbon agenda;

4. Urges national parliaments to strengthen their efforts to hold national governments to account for their management of the spending of EU funds; invites national parliaments to scrutinise the quality of national impact assessments and the manner in which national governments transpose EU law into domestic law and implement EU policies and funding programmes at the level of the state, regions and local authorities; requests national parliaments to monitor rigorously the reporting of the national action plans of the Lisbon agenda;

20. Takes the view that successful multi-level governance needs to be based on a "bottom-up" approach; calls in this context upon local and regional authorities to investigate means to intensify their cooperation and contact with national governments as well as with the Commission, and recommends that regular meetings take place between officials from national, regional and local authorities;

Preparatory action is underway involving feasibility studies and pilot projects costing 22 million ecus in the domains of EURO-ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network, involving health care, teleworking, education, applications for small and medium-sized enterprises and desktop/multimedia services. Following a mandate from the Essen European Council in December last year, the Commission has established a high level group to define the criteria for the setting up of environmental networks. The idea is for member states to join in developing projects of common interest for environmental protection or improvement such as waste management or water policy. In terms of the transport networks, assessing the progress of the 14 priority projects is ...[+++] complicated by the fact that these are long-term infrastructure projects, necessarily cross-border: it may be that there is substantial progress in one section of a project and no action elsewhere. Establishing the proper legal framework for the TENs has been greatly hampered by disagreement between Member States and the European Parliament as to whether to include the priority projects as agreed at Essen and an article on the need for environmental assessments - to which the Commission is committed. Of greater long term concern to the Commission is the perceived reluctance of national governments to adapt their national priorities to building the TENs network. While welcoming the potential benefits - competitiveness, job creation and economic cohesion - many countries behave as if construction and funding are the job of someone else. This is reflected in terms of slow progress in defining projects (eg. the Munich-Verona ie.Brenner), conflicting scheduling on the part of national authorities either side of a border (eg. PBKAL, HST-East), failure to resolve financing questions (eg PBKAL, Brenner, HST-East) and inability to from multinational project authorities to co- ordinate work on projects (eg. PBKAL, Brenner).

Another consistent feature of federal approaches to Indian Act reform is the effort to contain First Nations governments, to make First Nations governments resemble as much as possible non-Aboriginal visions of governance and democracy, without much of a reciprocal effort to explore or understand in any depth First Nations' concepts of governance and democracy.

The Commission will on Wednesday present a progress report for the Madrid European Council on the TransEuropean energy, telecoms and transport networks. Neil Kinnock, the Commissioner responsible for transport policy today urged governments to come up with fresh funding, particularly in the light of fresh research showing that the socio-economic benefits of TENs are greater than previously thought Neil KINNOCK, the Commissioner responsible for transport policy urged national governments to "make good their declared intention to turn European's transport patchwork into a proper network of interconnecting systems," warning that without new ...[+++] formulas for extra financing the TransEuropean transport, energy and telecoms links would not get built.