Translation of "maintien d'attitude " (French → English) :

Attitudes towards animals also depend on national perceptions, and there is a demand in certain Member States to maintain more extensive animal-welfare rules than those agreed upon at the level of the Union.

6. Welcomes the dynamic pace of the negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict illustrated by the six meetings between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan held over the course of 2009 in the spirit of the Moscow Declaration; calls on the parties to intensify their peace talk efforts for the purpose of a settlement in the coming months, to show a more constructive attitude and to abandon preferences to perpetuate the status quo created by force and with no international legitimacy, creating in this way instability and prolongi ...[+++]ng the suffering of the war-affected populations; condemns the idea of a military solution and the heavy consequences of military force already used, and calls on both parties to avoid any further breaches of the 1994 ceasefire;

15. Calls upon Council and Commission to prevent Russia from abusing the situation in Georgia; notes that, although there is no clear evidence whether the Georgian Government's accusations that Russia is deploying additional troops in Abkhazia are true, the Council and Commission have to make it very clear to Russia that such steps would be considered absolutely intolerable; furthermore urges the Council and Commission to call upon Russia to change its overall approach towards Georgia and stop using economic relations as a political weapon; stresses that such steps should be part of a more decisive EU policy towards its Eastern neighbourhood which should not reject cooperation with Russia, but on the contrary offer it wherever possible ( ...[+++]for example in the areas of regional cooperation, crisis management and peacekeeping); considers, however, that at the same time the EU must adopt a more resolute stance on crucial issues in the region and become more deeply involved despite Russia's current negative attitude towards the EU's role in their common neighbourhood; underlines that, in the end, it is up to the Russian political elite to understand that it is not so much geopolitical rivalry with the EU which diminishes Russian influence in its neighbourhood, but Russia's own destructive policy towards some of its neighbours;

Encouraging more positive cultural attitudes to entrepreneurial risk-taking and failure will not only help raise public awareness of the nature of entrepreneurship, but also foster the entrepreneurial talent needed to create jobs and sustain economic growth.

In June rumours were circulating that the Commission's attitude was jeopardizing the future of the Interail card.

The European Council notes with satisfaction that work in progress in the organs of European political cooperation has already, by comparing national policies on arms exports, identified a number of common criteria on which these policies are based, such as: - respect for the international commitments of the member States of the Community, in particular the sanctions decreed by the Security Council of the United Nations and those decreed by the Community, agreements on non-proliferation and other subjects, as well as other international obligations; - the respect of human rights in the country of final destination; - the internal situation in the country of final destination, as a function of the existence of tensions or internal armed co ...[+++]nflicts; - the preservation of regional peace, security and stability; - the national security of the member States and of territories whose external relations are the responsibility of a member State, as well as that of friendly and allied countries; - the behaviour of the buyer country with regard to the international community, as regards in particular its attitude to terrorism, the nature of its alliances, and respect for international law; - the existence of a risk that the equipment will be diverted within the buyer country or re-exported under undesirable conditions.