26. Takes note of the proposal in the Commission’s interim report to bring the different EU policy initiatives together in the interests of responding coherently to internal and external challenges; calls in this context for the development of an ‘EU smart green growth initiative’ bringing together all the main existing EU economic instruments, namely the Stability and Growth Pact, the Integrated Guidelines and the Sustainable Development Strategy; urges the Commission to present genuinely updated Integrated Guidelines for 2008-2010;

16. Recalls that an integrated European financial market is essential to ensuring the smooth functioning of the EMU; emphasises, therefore, on the need to complete financial market integration and to remove the remaining obstacles to financial integration in order to create an efficient financial system and improve the eurozone's capability to deal with economic shocks; draws attention to the fact that financial integration may also pose a risk to financial stability if the procedures for crisis prevention, management and resolution ...[+++] remain segmented at national level, making area-wide responses more difficult; reasserts, therefore, in this context the need for an integrated European system of cooperating supervisors as one key element as regards the completion of financial market integration;

15. Recalls that an integrated European financial market is essential to ensuring the smooth functioning of the EMU; dwells, therefore, on the need to complete financial market integration and to remove the remaining obstacles to financial integration in order to create an efficient financial system and improve the euro area's capability to deal with economic shocks; draws attention to the fact that financial integration may also pose a risk to financial stability if the procedures for crisis prevention, management and resolution re ...[+++]main segmented at national level , making area-wide responses more difficult; reasserts, therefore, in this context the need for an integrated European system of cooperating supervisors as one key element as regards the completion of financial market integration;

adopted conclusions on prevention, preparedness and response to terrorist attacks which will be forwarded to the European Council (15232/04); adopted a EU Solidarity Programme on the consequences of terrorist threats and attacks (revised/widened CBRN (Chemical, Bacteriological, Radiological and Nuclear) Programme) (15480/04), which will also be forwarded to the European Council; took note of an Interim Report on the Peer Evaluation of National Anti-Terrorist Arrangements (14306/3/04 REV 3) and asked the 15 Member States evaluated to report by June 2005 on the measures taken with regard to the recommendations of the report; and took no ...[+++]te of a document on recruitment of terrorists.

Whilst recognising the important role and globally satisfactory performance of the Union during the Kosovo crisis from the beginning up to the resolution of the conflict, Ministers underlined the need for the EU to turn away from purely reactive operations and lay greater emphasis on conflict prevention, referring in this respect as a model to the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and the Stabilisation and Association Process as a whole; it being understood that the Enlargement Process is the strongest means to ensure stability ...[+++] in Europe.