Traduction de «Spitzberg et île des Ours » (Français → Anglais) :

Our sailors and traders devastated the Arctic environment in the 17th and 18th centuries with the so-called ‘rape of Spitsbergen’.

This is one of the reasons why a store of traditional seeds has been created deep in ice on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, in case traditional seeds are damaged by increased use of GMOs.

(c) the Treaties shall apply to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man only to the extent necessary to ensure the implementation of the arrangements for those islands set out in the Treaty concerning the accession of new Member States to the European Economic Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community signed on 22 January 1972.

Thus five island regions have populations exceeding 500.000 (Sicily, Sardinia, Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Reunion and account for 75% of the European Island populationof the remaining islands seven are at NUTs 3 level and six have populations of less than 100.000. Relative size and geographical position will then clearly affect both the real possibilities for economic development and the kinds of products and activities that can be undertaken. Equally age distribution in the local society has a direct effect on social charges and unemployment statistics. For example in Réunion the population is growing and unde ...[+++]r 15 year olds account for 35% of the population, in the northern Aegean 25% of the population is over 60. Again whilst in some islands the population is on the increase, others such as the Western Isles of Scotland suffer from a high level of migration. Climate differences due to geographical position stimulate vastly different agricultural products

The amount of aid shall be fixed taking into consideration the additional costs of marketing products in the smaller islands, calculated from the usual ports of shipment in mainland Greece, and from the ports of islands of transit or of loading for the islands of final destination.

Mr President, I come from a land, an island, which has always had this problem, a never-ending problem – like other Italian islands and, I believe, tens and hundreds of islands of other countries – an island which has always made a major contribution, which has always been firmly in favour of national development and which, today, values European development in addition to and alongside national development. The effects of development, progress, news and communications, however, have always reached that island, as they have reached other islands, years later than elsewhere.