Traduction de «Pronostic ou perspectives » (Français → Anglais) :

3. Insists that the Union needs a coherent long-term trade strategy in order to take account of the challenges ahead and in particular of the major emerging countries; insists that such a strategy should be based on a thorough analysis of the current trends in world trade, the Union’s internal and external development as well as the diversity of European enterprises, their know-how and their technological advances; regrets that the Communication fails to deliver a profound forecast of how the ‘world of trade’ could look in a policy-planning perspective of 15 to 20 years; considers that this review should establish the Commission’s amb ...[+++]itions for its bilateral trading relationships over this period including a distinct geographical strategy, for example through the creation of new agreements or targets for eliminating tariffs and non-tariff barriers with its major trading partners;

4. Notes the positive development in the employment market, with a doubling of the annual growth rate of labour productivity from 0.6 to 1.2 % and a decline in unemployment to 8 % in both the European Union and the euro area in 2006, and a predicted unemployment rate of 7.3% in the European Union and 7.4% in the euro area by 2008, employment growth around 1.4%, representing 2.9 million new jobs in 2006 with the prospect of a further 7 million new jobs in the period 2007 to 2008, which would mean a rise in the employment rate from 63.7% in 2005 to 65.5% by 2008; notes, however, that unemployment rates, particularly among women, are still high and far from achieving the Lisbon Objectives ...[+++]; calls, therefore, for further efforts towards an effective and inclusive European labour market, which combines flexibility and security and is able to achieve a significantly higher participation rate; stresses in this context that necessary reforms should be designed and implemented in best collaboration with the social partners;

4. Notes the positive development in the employment market, with a doubling of the annual growth rate of labour productivity from 0,6 to 1,2 % and a decline in unemployment to 8 % in both the European Union and the euro area in 2006, and a predicted unemployment rate of 7,3 % in the European Union and 7,4 % in the euro area by 2008, employment growth around 1,4 %, representing 2,9 million new jobs in 2006 with the prospect of a further 7 million new jobs during the period 2007 to 2008, which would mean a rise in the employment rate from 63,7 % in 2005 to 65,5 % by 2008; notes, however, that unemployment rates, particularly among women, are still high and far from achieving the Lisbon Objectives ...[+++]; calls, therefore, for further efforts to be made towards attaining an effective and inclusive European labour market, which combines flexibility and security and is able to achieve a significantly higher participation rate; stresses in this context that necessary reforms should be designed and implemented in best collaboration with the social partners;

In the conclusions to the agreement on the next financial perspective, the European Council requests ‘the budgetary authority to significantly increase the funding under the Budget for the common foreign and security policy for the period beginning in 2007 in order to cover the foreseeable need for resources as estimated on the basis of prognoses produced annually by the Council, with a reasonable margin being left for unforeseen activities’.

Moreover there is a gap between seemingly favourable prospects, as established by recent macro-economic analysis (job opportunities for thousand of researchers) and less favourable anticipations, as most of the research organisations experience slow increases or even decreases in private and public investments and less commitment to sustainable positions for researchers.