In order to implement the strategy on Roma inclusion, it is indispensable that the strategy must, above all, be an internal EU strategy, and the general oversight of priority areas and objectives must be within the Community structures, with an annual report on the progress of the strategy and the evaluation of results.

The rapporteur considers it indispensable, that the Strategy must above all be an internal EU strategy, and the general oversight of Priority Areas and Objectives must be within the Community structures, with annual report on the progress of the Strategy and the evaluation of results as well as proposals to the Council.

This revision should be carried out as soon as possible after the completion of the assessment required in Article 12 of Directive 2008/56/EC, in time to support a successful update of marine strategies that are due by 2018 pursuant to Article 17 of that Directive, as a further contribution to adaptive management.

The Spring European Council endorsed the Europe 2020 strategy and in its conclusions of 25/26 March states that the Europe 2020 strategy needs action in key areas targeting knowledge and innovation, and the labour market.

7. Believes that the strategy should first of all provide a coherent and effective response to the economic and financial crisis, giving new ambition and much greater European coherence to the EU recovery process by mobilising and coordinating all national and European instruments for recovery, with adequate funding; reaffirms that the central objective must be recovery for employment, including adequate investment in training and education; stresses that necessary national budget consolidations must be closely coordinated among the Member States and should be conducted in such a way as to support higher growth and new job creation, wi ...[+++]thout being achieved at the expense of our social systems and public services;

The strategy aims above all at the positive affirmation of the rights of the child, which include the right to a family, the right to health, education, social inclusion, but also the right to entertainment, the right to play, to engage in sport, together with the right to a clean and protected environment.