Traduction de «Valeurs politiques » (Français → Anglais) :

1. Regrets the fact that the political situation in Belarus is worsening daily and that the regime is further contributing to the country's self-isolation, destroying all bases for an intensified neighbourhood relationship; reiterates the importance of strengthening cooperation with the neighbouring countries of the EU under the European Neighbourhood Strategy, based on shared political and economic values; considers it important that the Union remain determined to avoid new dividing lines in Europe and to promote stability and pros ...[+++]perity within and beyond the new EU borders, on the basis of partnership and joint ownership and building on shared values of democracy and respect for human rights;

2. Stresses that it will be Turkey's own sovereign decision whether it wants, or will be able, to adopt the political principles and values of the EU as appropriate for the Turkish state and society or to reject them as inappropriate for Turkey; to this end, believes that it is important to reinforce all political and cultural methods which help to increase knowledge of those values on the part of Turkish citizens, as well as knowledge of Turkey by European Union citizens;

2. Stresses that it will be Turkey’s own sovereign decision whether it wants, or will be able, to adopt the political principles and values of the EU as appropriate for the Turkish state and society or to reject them as inappropriate for Turkey; to this end, believes that it is important to reinforce all political and cultural methods which help to increase knowledge of those values on the part of Turkish citizens, as well as knowledge of Turkey by European Union citizens;

3. Recognises that the political values of the European Union are chiefly based on the Judaeo-Christian and humanist culture of Europe, but that no-one has a monopoly on these universal values of democracy, the rule of law, human and minority rights and freedoms of religion and conscience - values which can perfectly well be accepted and defended by a country where the majority of the population is muslim; believes, therefore, that there are no objections of principle to its EU membership;

Apart from the fact that the Union policies themselves help to secure respect for and promotion of common values, the legal and political framework for the application of Article 7 as described above, based on prevention, requires practical operational measures to ensure thorough and effective monitoring of respect for and promotion of common values.

"The Union needs a cohesion policy which addresses three types of region and structural problems": (1) regions whose development is lagging very far behind, 60 % of which are in the applicant countries; (2) regions of the Fifteen which have not completed the process of real convergence (particularly in the three cohesion countries); (3) regions facing serious structural problems, such as some urban areas, areas affected by industrial conversion, rural areas dependent on agriculture and/or fishing, and areas suffering from natural or demographic handicaps (islands, mountain areas, outermost regions, etc.).To avoid funding being spread too thinly, cohesion policy should concentrate on those measures where the Community can ...[+++] add real value, resulting in stronger links between financial allocations, the value added by the measures and the anticipated results.