The EU must urge its Latin American partners towards further integration.

Social dialogue with social partners, including the trade unions of civil servants and farmers.

In addition, the police and the Public Prosecution Service are working with their EU partners on

To empower social partners to influence the drafting and implementation of poverty reduction strategies through social dialogue.

On the global front, the EU and China may find themselves to be natural partners on key issues.

The EU and NATO may see themselves as potential rivals or complementary partners in the field of defense.

Economists have agreed that there exist different social models in the EU.

Equal pay is a responsibility shared by the government and the social partners.

But how will relations evolve over the next thirty years? Will China and the EU be competitors or partners?

Some EU member States are currently working with partners to develop an advance market commitment for a malaria vaccine.

We call on our European Union (EU) partners to provide adequate long term support as the EU begins to reduce preferential access for sugar from African, Caribbean and Pacific States.

This made little impression on their German EU partners unsurprisingly, since Schroeder now chairs the consortium that will build the pipeline.

consultation with social partners, to encourage them to deal with the issue of unequal pay.

In Germany, many consider the EFSF a breach of the fundamental principle that EU governments cannot be bailed out by their partners.

To this end, the EU is working closely with its partners, from Morocco and Indonesia to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.

The EU will also continue working with African and other international partners to check the flow of unregulated arms on the continent.

Channeling EU structural funds towards innovation is essential, given that spending on research and development is alarmingly low compared to our global partners.

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 formation of a Palestinian national unity government enables the EU and its partners to resume cooperation with the Palestinian authorities without losing face.

It is unnecessary to stress yet again how much Italy, together with its EU partners, supports the IAEA safeguards agreements and the additional protocols.

Related to this is the idea that only a strong EU can save the European social model.

But this is misleading the European social model is, in fact, part and parcel of the identity of the EU member states more than of the EU per se.

If the newcomers are to embrace the social market model, that model must operate throughout the EU and offer to them what it offered new EU members in the past.

So far, the social partners, as ECB president Jean Claude Trichet likes to call the unions, have been quiet.

Some will hold the EU and the measures imposed by Brussels responsible for the outbreaks of social unrest.

None of the leading EU states foreign ministers seems even to have made an attempt to mediate between Europe s two closest Mediterranean partners, Israel and Turkey.

Even on many international issues beyond western Europe, Spain prefers to co ordinate its efforts with its EU partners through the European political co operation mechanisms.

Addressing the root causes of poverty requires the collective efforts of Governments, international organizations, civil society and other partners, with voluntarism and social mobilization serving as powerful partners in the fight against poverty.

Only by enlarging the scope of EU decision making, backed by the commitment of equally responsible partners, can Europe meet the shared challenges of a common future.

While the directive s rules governing migration of employed and self employed people hardly differ from previous EU law, the migration and social welfare rights of non working EU citizens have been significantly extended.

In addition, the Irish government secured legal guarantees from its EU partners on the issues that most concerned voters who voted No or abstained in the first referendum.

If Europe's social market model is to survive enlargement, it must find a way to expand eastward with the EU.

But that would mean a substantial change in the direction of EU social policies, including revision of the draft constitution.

Beyond damaging relations with the EU, the UK s actions could undermine efforts to address Europe s economic, social, and identity crises.

That initiative has recently been endorsed by the EU and is expected to start its activities in the near future in collaboration with the Strategy secretariat and other partners.

A major outbreak of social unrest in Greece or elsewhere could affect the wider EU public in various and unforeseeable ways.

Even now, Hungary and Romania feel peer pressure and face sanctions from their EU partners when they engage in dubious electoral practices, compromise their courts independence, or discriminate against minorities.

The Security Council welcomes the role played by the African Union's partners in support of AMIS and underlines the active role played by the EU and by other, bilateral, donors.

Some regional level partners are the League of Arab States and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and its subsidiary bodies.

The other 60 reported having partners with multiple sexual partners, partners who were drug users by injection and partners HIV positive.

If the newcomers are to embrace the social market model, that model must operate throughout the EU and offer to them what it offered new EU members in the past. Sadly, this is not yet the case.

The ACVZ notes that the three year dependent residence permit' for partners originating from outside the EU carries an inherent risk that women in particular may become dependent on their partner.

But, instead of working together with its social partners, the government, heeding the troika s advice, dismantled the country s collective bargaining system, leaving workers unrepresented.

An ILO special action programme to combat forced labour is supporting Governments and social partners in their effort to document and eliminate forced labour.

This tool is currently used by system controllers who test job evaluation systems for gender neutrality, in collaboration with representatives of the social partners.