Traduction de «Economic convergence » (Anglais → Français) :

2. Underlines the fact that the level of unemployment remains unduly high, particularly for young people and women and that the EU’s economic recovery is still fragile; welcomes the outcome of the negotiations on the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and urges its full implementation; expects the EIB and the Member States to do their utmost to approve as soon as possible a range of riskier investment projects that contribute to a genuine, robust recovery and balanced and sustainable growth, which will foster economic convergence and single market integration, employment and social cohesion and gender equality throughout th ...[+++]e EU; stresses its requests, in particular as regards transparency, democratic accountability and compliance with the investment guidelines; calls on the Commission to address, in particular, the impact of the EFSI on social and regional convergence in the EU and the conditions, under the constraints of the six-pack and two-pack, for the countries more in need of investment to accede to this instrument; calls on the Commission to closely monitor the budgetary impact of the EFSI after its adoption;

Our institution has also set special requirements for applicants for accession, pointing out that a premature accession to the Euro area might lead to unexpected developments in the economic convergence process and that the enlargement of the Euro area facilitates economic convergence process and contributes to strengthening of the Euro area as a whole.

Both Commission and the ECB reports show that Slovenia fulfil the convergence criteria set out in the Treaty and the protocol on Article 121 of the Treaty : a high degree of price stability, a government budgetary position without an excessive deficit, membership in the exchange rate mechanism II for at least two years and the observance of the normal fluctuation margins, the convergence of long-term interest rates, the compatibility of the system of laws with the Maastricht treaty, an independent central bank and economic convergence.

Can the European Commission state exactly what measures it is working on, in the context of implementing the Lisbon strategy, so as to achieve economic convergence within the territories of the European Union?

Achieving economic convergence within the EU is a key political priority for the different EU Member States.

3. Despite the fact that economic growth slowed down significantly in 2001, the general trend towards economic convergence is confirmed in the current European Union.