Traduction de «Essential foundation the public service » (Anglais → Français) :

19. Suggests that the only situation in which semi-public companies should be required to select their private partners on the basis of an invitation to tender should be where the private partners provide services on behalf of and in connection with the performance of the tasks of the concessionary authority, which controls, finances or underwrites the essential part of such servic ...[+++]es;

The essential role of public services in every country’s development and social cohesion must also be respected, with no proposals put forward that provide for further liberalisations in third countries or for European Union bids in the field of public services.

In particular, it detailed a series of policy objectives for improving the urban environment that remain valid and will provide the essential foundation for the Thematic Strategy:

It is also essential that the postal services continue to fulfil the irreplaceable social role that they have traditionally played, whilst being able to remain competitive and to provide increasingly up-to-date services.

At the end of the day, exchange of information is an essential foundation of modern democracy, which is nurtured by public debate, media and public control and the contribution of social organisations.

This is an essential foundation for sustaining our own systems of social protection and is based on four fundamental pillars. The first involves preparing the European Union for the knowledge-based economy through mechanisms which will facilitate action for the information society, for science and technology and for training and education. The second pillar consists of achieving the economic reforms that are essential to competitiveness and innovation, through expanding the process of economic reforms necessary to create a fully integrated internal market and through new policies for innovation and business. Thirdly, we must strengthen the pillar of social c ...[+++]ohesion, based on employment, on reform to make our social protection models sustainable and on combating social exclusion. Finally, the fourth pillar consists of coordinating macroeconomic policies in order to guarantee both the stability that we have already achieved which has provided a basis for the euro, with low inflation, low public deficits and also a macroeconomic environment which is more favourable to growth, employment, innovation and entrepreneurship.