Data from the Bank for International Settlements shows an enormous increase in international financial activity, which practically doubled in the 1990s, with trading on stock exchanges appearing increasingly disconnected from the real economy. This, combined with an increase in the speed of circulation in the financial sphere has heightened instability, thereby helping to increase the gap between richer countries and developing countries.

In cases where it is not possible to use control materials, e.g. because of instability, duplicate data must be accumulated by this method.

19. Believes that a framework programme for culture, grouping together all the Community's direct activities in the cultural sphere, could have the useful dual effect of extending and improving the Union's cultural action and providing the necessary boost for and complementing the decentralized role of the Structural Funds; calls on the Commission, therefore, to submit a proposal for reorganizing the Community's cultural programmes. Points out that listening carefully to cultural bodies which are established at grassroots level and which, in certain cases, have given extensive consideration to the matter is essential if the new framewor ...[+++]k programme is to be in accordance with the proposed objectives.

43. Believes that a framework programme for culture, grouping together all the Community's direct activities in the cultural sphere, could have the useful dual effect of extending and improving the Union's cultural action and providing the necessary boost for and complementing the decentralized role of the Structural Funds; calls on the Commission, therefore, to submit a proposal for reorganizing the Community's cultural programmes; points out that listening carefully to cultural bodies which are established at grassroots level and which, in certain cases, have given extensive consideration to the matter is essential if the new framewo ...[+++]rk programme is to be in accordance with the proposed objectives;

The federal regime is synonymous with overlap, inefficiency, duplication, over regulation, uncertainty and instability.

But I think there is something wrong when they talk about the connection between sponsorship and unemployment and never mention the connection between political instability and unemployment in Montreal.