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7. Calls on the EU to cooperate with the countries of the Mediterranean region and of north Africa, in particular in view of their significant energy-resource potential and the substantial opportunities for the development of Africa; in particular, the use of solar and wind energy should be researched and encouraged through the Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean; stresses that the EU approach to the DESERTEC project must be coherent and make an active contribution to the development of north African and Middle East count ...[+++]ries; therefore calls on companies and the Member States involved in this project - in close cooperation with the Commission - to promote development by means of genuine technology transfer and capacity-building aimed at local companies and civil society in order to ensure ownership and build a lasting partnership with the Mediterranean countries in which DESERTEC will be developed;

The path is simple: a strong European political centre, a European Parliament with the power to decide, shared responsibility in the diplomatic dealings of the Member States in defending human rights, with the European Commission steering this task, more political and less bureaucratic European Commission delegations in third countries, pressure on the World Trade Organization to research the democratic dignity of its members, promotion of organisational structures identical to those of the Union, intensive dialogue with the African Union and the Union ...[+++] of South American Nations and other regional groupings, pressure on reform of the United Nations with the European Union playing a key role, creation of an internal strategy against dependence, centred on a single energy policy and a consistent defence policy.

In addition to the policies sustaining the rural sector, the EU should target specific support on increasing the competitiveness and productivity of African agriculture through: (i) policies and programmes to improve the functioning of national and regional input and output markets, including through rural infrastructure and to promote organic farming and fair trade; (ii) the management of shocks, in particular through novel insurance instruments; and (iii) the strengthening of pro-poor, demand-driven agricultural research and extension, in p ...[+++]articular by promoting research collaboration between the European and African research communities, at the level of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and by supporting regional research coordination mechanisms.

To further the Association’s objectives of strengthening ties with national parliaments and regional organizations, the Association conducts bilateral visits to key countries in Africa. The Association has organized bilateral visits to Mozambique, South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, as well as the partner countries of the East African Community (EAC): Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Senator Dallaire: In 1992, Boutros Boutros-Ghali produced a seminal document in which he argued the requirement for regional capabilities and in which he felt the UN should be nurturing regional capabilities through its membership, like the African Union, the Organization of American States, the European Union and, of course, the Far East and what they would have as regional capability.

THE COUNCIL CALLS UPON THE COMMISSION 1. to facilitate industrial cooperation with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe by supporting the development of a climate and a regulatory framework favourable to enterprises and to inter- enterprise agreements; to that end, and in order to overcome barriers to industrial cooperation and to greater integration in the European economy, the following are deemed priorities: (a) increased support for those countries to improve the framework conditions for investment, and in particular transparency and legal security for investors, and the alignment of investment protection rules on those obtaining within the Community; (b) technical assistance for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to t ...[+++]ake over the acquis communautaire on competition, which is a necessary condition for setting up an internal market and developing trade and industrial investment; (c) increased technical assistance to bring standards and conformity evaluation procedures into line with those in force within the Community, including environmental protection standards, in particular by encouraging the CCEE to join the relevant international standardization organizations; (d) a significant increase in the organization of round tables between Community and East European industrialists on technological and market trends to boost the development of industrial cooperation; (e) a special effort to strengthen scientific and technological cooperation, particularly in terms of the information society and to improve links between research and industrial development in those countries; 2. to promote cooperation between industrial operators by means of flanking and support measures for the implementation of projects, namely: (a) development of management training initiatives carried out in particular by Community industrial operators, notably for East European company executives; (b) increased support for feasibility and profitability studies of specific pr ...