More than half of the country s trade is with the Union, and Moldova receives significant EU financial assistance. Most Moldovan emigrants work in the EU, and almost 75 of Moldova s population support EU membership.

The EU is willing to offer its assistance in implementing the provisions of the resolution.

The Security Council also appreciates the assistance given by other international actors, including EU electoral experts.

nuclear safety and security assistance for EU Candidate States on the basis of the PHARE programme.

The latest development is the implementation of the Protocol to the EU Mutual Legal Assistance Convention in June 2004.

To be sure, the EU budget contains flexible instruments, such as the EU Solidarity Fund, which provides emergency assistance after natural disasters. But these tools have not always been used as effectively as possible.

Many EU member States contribute to the NATO led International Security Assistance Force and run provincial reconstruction teams throughout the country.

It was also recommended that the EU should provide appropriate technical assistance to allow developing country producers to use the technology for substitutes effectively.

But the EU budget has already enabled an indirect form of leveraging the European Commission s use of implicit budget guarantees to raise capital on financial markets. These funds are used to provide financial assistance to non eurozone EU countries through the Medium Term Financial Assistance Facility, to eurozone countries through the now expired European Financial Stabilization Mechanism, and to partner third countries.

Technical assistance activities include, among others, a regional workshop on the Compilers Manual organized by the Statistics Division and the provision by Eurostat of technical assistance in the framework of EU enlargement, the EU Mediterranean agreement, the Cotonou agreement and regional cooperation agreements such as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and l'Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine.

New and emerging donors from our part of the world are keen to meet the high targets for official development assistance (ODA) set by the EU.

Only 4 of public development assistance is now earmarked for agriculture. The European Commission and EU member states are therefore planning to increase their assistance, both through the European Development Fund and by developing new sources of financial support.

The EU had therefore committed itself to further improving and better coordinating trade related assistance programmes in view of possible trade integration costs faced by developing countries.

The Office of the High Representative, with the European Commission and the EU Customs and Fiscal Assistance Office, invested heavily in ongoing support for the Indirect Taxation Administration.

The EU would invite non EU states to do likewise

Twenty five European Union (EU) member States committed themselves to the target of allocating 0.7 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) to official development assistance by 2015.

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Blair s EU disaster

Post EU Depression

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The EU underscores its support for stronger United Nations wide coherence, starting with the implementation of the measures identified at the summit to promote coherence of policy, operational activities, humanitarian assistance and environmental activities.

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Politicizing EU Competition Policy

Righting the EU Constitution

The EU vs. Democracy

Statement of the EU

Through its joint action on combating the destabilizing accumulation and spread of small arms, the EU provides financial and technical assistance to countries, groups of countries and international and non governmental organizations that request such support.

At least 50 per cent, therefore, of the increase in the European Union's aid resources will go to Africa in plain terms, that represents a doubling of EU assistance to Africa over the next five years.

Other major donors in 2003 included the Netherlands, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the European Union (EU), Germany, Norway and Japan, all of which contributed over 100 million each in population assistance.

The Challenges Of EU Enlargement

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The publication of some additional information is encouraged, for example, in the EU public procurement directive (the EU directive ).

The European Commission's Market Access Database provides information on exports from the European Union (EU) to non EU countries.

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The EU will reinforce our work with priority third countries, through increasing individual collective commitments to technical assistance and capacity building, and we will endeavour to support them, including in the area of countering radicalization and terrorist financing.

At a time of anti establishment rage and political upheaval, anti EU campaigners can peddle three fantasies of a post EU future a free market, foreigner free, or socialist Utopia. The pro EU camp, by contrast, has to sell the reality of the EU as it is, warts and all.

Moreover, Russia is trying to build a relationship of asymmetric interdependence with the EU. While EU leaders believe that peace and stability is built through interdependence, Russia s leaders are intent on creating a situation in which the EU needs Russia more than Russia needs the EU, particularly in the energy sector.

By contrast, the European Parliament has a better reputation than the EU as a whole the average EU wide level of trust in the European Parliament is 54 , whereas in Britain it is 30 . Across the EU, 48 think EU membership is a good thing in Britain, this figure falls to 29 .

With the EU 15 comprising around 80 of all EU GHG emissions, these countries should be the ones taking a leading role in EU climate change policy. It is past time that they step up their efforts.

Do you all know that Spain part of the EU got 10 billion dollars in aid from the rest of the EU?