Traduction de «association des bibliothèques américaines » (Français → Anglais) :

The agreement reached two weeks ago satisfied the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers and some of their European counterparts.

When I consider the preparations for the summit in terms of this absence of agreements – preparations helped along by the sterling efforts of the Council and the Commission – I can see there again being discussions about many individual matters, on which there may or may not be agreement, but there being, however, no bigger picture or framework for the discussions to take place in: a framework, moreover, in which we might also be able to include the American Congress, for anyone familiar with American policy in the fields of trade, economics and foreign policy knows that speaking with the administration is only half the battle.

Other decisions might cover temporary immigration policies, the introduction of a special short-stay travel visa for entrepreneurs, university teachers, researchers, students, journalists, and trade unionists involved in the Euro-Latin American partnership, the use of immigration to foster development in countries of origin (assistance for immigrants’ projects in their countries of origin etc.), and clearly defined integration policies in host countries for legally resident immigrants.

We are working with the major U.S. corporations, consumer advocates including Home Depot, American Consumers for Affordable Housing, the National Association of Home Builders to name just a few.

2. As far as political dialogue is concerned, the new agreement is essentially in line with the calls repeatedly made by Parliament for the establishment of a Europe/Latin America political and security partnership, entailing the adoption of a wider political agenda (the new agreement also covers cooperation in the fight against terrorism); for modernising the ministerial political dialogue, assigning an important role in monitoring it to civil society; and for updating the parliamentary dialogue, for which purpose the new agreement provides for the setting up of a joint parliamentary committee of the European Parliament and the Nation ...[+++]al Congress of Chile which, in your rapporteur's opinion, will make it possible in due course to envisage some kind of Europe/Latin America Transatlantic Assembly.

The TACD is a forum of US and EU consumer organisations, which develops and agrees policy recommendations to the European Commission and US Government, and which promotes consumer interests in EU and US policy making.