Any EU effort should be based on the following reinforcing elements

Like the NATO common fund, EU contributions are largely based on GDP.

But the thaw in EU Belarus relations needs to be based on reciprocal, permanent steps.

It is thus wrong to assume that economies based on cheap labor are massively outcompeting the EU.

The EU Counter Terrorism Strategy, also from 2005, is based on respect for human rights and international law.

The Tribunal rejected the suit based on a lack of jurisdiction, because the EU regulations do not foresee that national courts can adopt provisions contrary to sanctions imposed by EU.

In that context, the EU welcomed the formulation of a results based programme and budgets document for the 2006 2007 biennium.

Last, but not least, combating identity based extremism calls for a greater capacity to integrate all those who live within the EU.

As such, it is principally based on a geographical approach which better responds to the way migration is envisaged at EU level.

Today s preference by individual EU members to act unilaterally on energy must be replaced by a common energy policy based on solidarity among member states and unity in defending EU interests vis à vis external partners.

The relationship between the EU and Russia today is fully pragmatic, based on Realpolitik and trade, which in turn eclipses the strategic perspective.

While the UK is entirely free to leave the EU, given that it is a treaty based union, the move carries serious risks.

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The EU would invite non EU states to do likewise

Today, no official figure on the budget deficit in 1999, the year on which the EU based its decision about Greece s entry, is available.

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Germany finances 20 of the EU budget but receives only 12 of EU spending.

I believe that it is important that the EU carries out such monitoring in non EU states. But what about elections in EU member states?

Noting UNIDO's critical self assessment of its results based management work, the EU would like to encourage the Organization to address the identified areas where further progress could be achieved, particularly with regard to staff motivation towards results based management principles.

The EU Council s common position on arms exports is legally binding on all EU states.

The EU is fully committed to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and to the three mutually reinforcing pillars on which it is based.

2) The EU will stagnate.

Yet the EU holds back.

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EU committed 2.8 million ECUs.

EU committed 2.25 million ECUs.

EU committed 1 million ECUs.

Most Moldovan emigrants work in the EU, and almost 75 of Moldova s population support EU membership.

Indeed, intra EU trade today accounts for nearly two thirds of EU member states total trade.

The EU must freeze these individuals assets and impose an EU wide travel ban on them.

First, the EU needs to focus on Pakistan because terrorists in Pakistan focus on the EU.

Although Europe spent last year preoccupied with the financial crisis, the EU s Lisbon Treaty began to provide the institutional foundations needed to underpin an effective EU based foreign policy.

After the establishment of the EU Chile free trade area, Chilean exports to the EU increased substantially.

Like Dodik, Russia is exploiting weak EU resolve, making trouble for the US and EU where possible.