Traduction de «Sound two long blasts » (Anglais → Français) :

1. Regrets that the Joint Africa-EU Strategy has not drawn lessons from past decades of cooperation between the two continents and failed to put forward a new relationship, based on long-term sustainable development vision, which implies fair, equitable, coherent, participatory, socially and environmentally sound policies;

I suspect that Mr Purvis knows the answer nearly as well as I do, which is that, in those two particulars which he has referred to, it will not be short sellers that will be deemed to be the problem in this area: it was long-term investors, rightly getting rid of long-term positions, because they felt that a particular institution was not on a sound financial footing.

The European Parliament, which has long called for an increased convergence of national supervisory practices and improvement of existing crisis management arrangements in the EU, therefore welcomes both ECOFIN Council Conclusions, and shares the view that a consistency between the evolution of going concern supervisory arrangements, both at national and cross-border levels, and that of crisis management/ financial stability arrangements is needed. Having regard to the two ECOFIN Council Conclusions, and to the still-unfolding financial crisis whose speed and pace has taken by surprise many market participants and supervisors, having reg ...[+++]ard to the threats the crisis still poses to the EU financial markets and to its spill-over into the EU economy, what does the Presidency consider as appropriate steps to be undertaken in this area in order to better respond to the challenges of globally integrated markets and to preserve the soundness and stability of the EU financial markets?

The problem with user fees, as I said conceptually, is sound as long as there are two things: first, a cost benefit analysis for the service being provided; and second, we recognize that there is a certain percentage of the cost recovery based on efficiencies of the departments themselves.

51. Is aware that the management of immigration flows constitutes a key issue for the immediate and long-term future of our peoples; considers that the fight against illegal immigration, conducted in accordance with the humanitarian traditions of our continent, and the integration of legal immigrants should be two linked aspects of the same issue; calls, therefore, on the Commission to take all appropriate measures which could contribute to a sound management of this crucial issue;

10. Is aware that the management of immigration flows constitutes a key issue for the immediate and long-term future of our peoples; considers that the fight against illegal immigration, conducted in accordance with the humanitarian traditions of our continent, and the integration of legal immigrants should be two linked aspects of the same issue; calls, therefore, on the Commission to take all appropriate measures which could support a sound management of this crucial issue;