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That's a new feature, if you like, of NATO planning, which looks at how we can share the burden and adjust the contributions of different nations over a longer period, using a long-term force-generation process that identifies nations' ability to contribute at different times during the cycle of a mission, and then doing the burden sharing that's required to make sure that all can contribute, or get the regeneration time they need over time. For Afghanistan specifically, I have spoken to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Cr ...[+++]addock, as well as to the Secretary General about the need for us to start looking a much further distance ahead, looking at what's going to happen, not only in 2008 and 2009, when, as many nations have indicated, their parliaments will ultimately have to make decisions as to whether or not they remain, and looking at how we can now sustain this mission in the longer term.

In addition, the plan provides businesses with the long-term certainty and time needed to adjust and align environmental investments with their capital turnover cycles.

To contribute to a dynamic and well-functioning EMU, euro area Member States need to ensure better coordination of their economic and budgetary policies in order to stimulate domestic demand and growth in a concerted fashion, initially by harmonising their budgetary timetables; those Member States that have not yet reached their medium-term budgetary objective should pursue an annual improvement in their cyclically-adjusted budget deficit net of one-offs and other temporary measures of 0.5% of GDP as a benchmark, while ensuring a higher adjustment effort in good times, keeping in mind that, in future, structural reforms will be taken into account when def ...[+++]ining the adjustment path to the medium-term objective and temporary deviations from this objective will be allowed for countries that have already reached it; press forward with structural reforms that will improve euro area competitiveness by investing in innovation, industrial policy, education and professional training and economic adjustment to asymmetric shocks; Member States should complete the reform of the Stability and Growth Pact and ensure that it is strictly applied in order to re-establish confidence.

To contribute to a dynamic and well-functioning EMU, euro area Member States need to pay particular attention to fiscal discipline, so as to ensure better coordination of their economic and budgetary policies, initially by harmonising their budgetary timetables; and in this connection those Member States that have not yet reached their medium-term budgetary objective should pursue an annual improvement in their cyclically-adjusted budget deficit net of one-offs and other temporary measures of 0.5% of GDP as a benchmark, while ensuring a higher adjustment effort in good times; bearing in mind that, in future, structural reforms will be ...[+++]taken into account when defining the adjustment path to the medium term objective, and temporary deviations from this objective will be allowed for countries that have already reached it ; press forward with structural reforms that will improve euro area competitiveness inter alia by investing in innovation, industrial policy, education and vocational training and economic adjustment to asymmetric shocks; Member States should complete the reform of the Stability and Growth Pact and ensure that it is strictly applied in order to re-establish confidence.

Had we been in the normal estimates cycle, talking about this in June and we had three-quarters left to adjust, a 10% cut would be a different thing, but when we are doing it in the last quarter, we cannot turn around for a contractual reason and just fire everybody tomorrow. Even if staff is reduced to take it out, it is going to take a bit of time to do that.

In addition, adjustments to the commission's meeting cycle have served to maximize both time- and decision-making requirements.