The European Union would also use European structural funds to promote the participation of women, including migrants and ethnic minority women.

Moreover, the European Investment Bank s lending capacity could be increased substantially, and European Union structural funds mobilized, to finance investment projects in the peripheral economies.

(d) Structural elements (e.g., trustee, funds flow, timing)

The European Commission has played a very helpful role through its structural funds, which cover up to 80 of the additional costs involved in integrating the Roma.

The European Commission s recent decision to grant member states some flexibility for productive public investment linked to EU structural funds is a welcome step in this direction.

The EU budget should facilitate such transfers in the eurozone, using structural funds.

On a positive note, the Decade of Roma Inclusion, established in 2005, is receiving strong support from the structural funds administered by the European Commission and is making some inroads.

It will include items such as the common agricultural policy, regional structural funds, and research and innovation.

One purpose of education reform was to improve the status of women and ensure equal opportunity for all to that end, a National Operative Programme School for Development had been established, co financed using European structural funds.

The Healthy Life Years indicator (HLY) is a European structural indicator computed by Eurostat.

When I was a European Commissioner, we provided funds from European taxpayers to pay for these things.

In particular, since the expansion of the European Union, European funds are arriving with much greater difficulty.

In 2009, the EU endorsed the principle of explicit but not exclusive targeting for Roma, and the European Commission allowed structural funds to be used to cover housing interventions in favour of marginalized communities, with a particular focus on Roma.

Structural reforms are also necessary in most European economies to bolster competitiveness and boost potential growth.

St. Helena is also eligible to receive funds from the European Union.

Some propose bringing in the European Central Bank to leverage the EFSF s funds.

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

Bolstered by funds from the European Stability Mechanism, Spain remains financially afloat for several months.

Neither the Cypriot government nor European taxpayers will put any additional funds into these banks.

The four proposals that Hollande has put forward are so consensual that it would be difficult for Germany to oppose them use of non disbursed resources from the EU Structural Funds, recapitalization of the European Investment Bank, creation of project bonds, and taxation of financial transactions.

Ultimately, a workable European economic union does require greater structural homogeneity and institutional convergence (especially in labor markets) among its members.

Deeper European integration, stricter equity requirements for banks, and deeper but homegrown structural reforms are certainly key elements of any solution. Further aid to the European periphery is still badly needed.

Moreover, it implies that the crisis is fully under European control, and that the European authorities have elaborated a comprehensive plan that will resolve all of Greece s fiscal and structural problems.

There would be no common European plan to address the crisis, and no call for public funds.

European cohesion funds account for only a fraction of a percent of European GDP, whereas about 10 of national income is typically spent on social transfers.

The EU is not deprived of instruments the so called structural funds that finance investment in poorer regions but it does not have a strategy to use them.

Despite stress tests, bailout funds, and continual meetings, a permanent workable fix has so far eluded European policymakers.

Money market funds from the United States are returning, albeit cautiously, to resume funding of European bank debt.

Indeed, although European governments have agreed to encourage faster absorption of EU funds in crisis countries, they have refused to pay into the EU budget to enable the funds disbursement.

Germany needs both China s markets and the funds that its government can deploy to purchase German and European bonds.

Likewise, common European banking supervision will not suffice to prevent the continuing exodus of funds from the afflicted countries.

An adequate firewall and a European commitment to structural reform would go far toward calming markets and reducing the risks to any Chinese contribution.

Likewise, France s economic growth is waning not because France has failed to undertake necessary structural reforms, but because European interest rates are too high.

Most importantly, the rules guiding how structural funds are spent should be changed to allow their use for health and education from early childhood, rather than only for job training.

In the wider European Union, countries like the United Kingdom or Hungary are as much afflicted by structural deficiencies as some peripheral eurozone countries are.

That means reaffirming the commitment to deposit insurance, closing unviable banks, and recapitalizing the rest with European (not Cypriot) funds.

The European Parliament s Socialist Group, the UK s House of Commons, and the Australian parliament have all investigated these private funds.

US and European policymakers do not trust that foreign governments (and their sovereign wealth funds) invest solely on business grounds.

Bailouts from the European Stability Mechanism represent the clearest example of this, with the fiscal compact now committing signatories to tight deficit targets and structural adjustment.

But one does not need European funding to finance infrastructure in Germany, where the government can raise funds at negative real cost.

The first is that the European Union provides the necessary funds on a permanent basis, creating a European Transfer Union to the benefit of the deficit countries, including Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy.

Such funds were available for projects in underdeveloped regions such as southern Italy, but he noted that with the expansion of the European Union, those funds would soon be shifted towards the more disadvantaged new member countries.

EU member states need to rebuild their trust in one another. And European countries facing the need for wrenching structural reforms need to restore social trust at home.

The European Union supported the Secretary General's request for funds for the Mission, but shared some of the concerns of the Advisory Committee.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge