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8. Believes that policy formulation in respect of cohesion policy and other fields depends increasingly on the timely identification of long-term global trends; notes, in this connection, various forward-looking reports such as Project Europe 2030 (the report to the European Council by the Reflection Group on the Future of the EU 2030) and ‘Global Trends 2030 – Citizens in an Interconnected and Polycentric World’, prepared by the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) as part of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) project;

5. Believes that policy formulation in respect of cohesion policy and other fields depends increasingly on the timely identification of long-term global trends; notes, in this connection, various forward-looking reports such as Project Europe 2030 (the report to the European Council by the Reflection Group on the Future of the EU 2030) and ‘Global Trends 2030 – Citizens in an Interconnected and Polycentric World’, prepared by the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) as part of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) project; recommends closer coordination of such reporting initiatives;

In this respect, the President of the EESC, Ms Sigmund, and the co-chairman of the Liaison Group, Mr Alhadeff, emphasised that owing to its composition, the Liaison Group provided the Commission with an ideal framework for early discussion and debate of numerous issues of common interest. It could therefore act as an interface between organised civil society and the European Commission, in particular.

However the Liberal Party's focus group and polling data have told it to spend the money on university students, that post-secondary education is a more politically palatable initiative than is early intervention.

6. The European Union's contribution could take the following forms: (a) Early warning: - exchange of information or communications covering aspects of specific crises or countries where tensions are in evidence; - training of analysts for the OAU General Secretariat; - organization of seminars; - financial support for technical and material assistance (b) Preventive diplomacy: - encouraging the setting-up of crisis-tracking groups by offering good offices and possibly one-off financial support; - organization of seminars and fora for the discussion of preventive diplomacy; - assistance with staff for the organization of missions (c) Peacekeeping: insofar as a role is envisaged for the OAU, at its own request, pursuant to a decision of ...[+++] the UN Security Council, the EU will examine any support it could provide, in particular via the WEU where appropriate. 7. The EU, aware of the fact that the WEU has already begun discussing the possibility of supporting the European Union's contribution, invites it to inform the EU of the outcome.

In view of the particular importance of an adequate protection for life policyholders a number of additional measures will be introduced as compared to non-life insurance: - the home state can ask for systematic notification of the bases used for the calculation of premiums and technical provisions; - an early warning procedure is foreseen where a host state has reason to suspect that the activities of a company operating on its territory endanger its financial solidity; - the cooling-off period, first introduced by the 2nd Life Directive for policyholders who entered into a contract through free provisions of services, is now extended ...[+++] to benefit all individual policyholders; - in order to guarantee transparency for consumers in a market with an increasing variety of products, companies will be obliged to set out to each policyholder in clear terms the essential elements of a contract before its conclusion and later when changes occur.