Through this Council decision, the European Union (EU) has decided to continue drawing on the expertise of the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) to provide research and analysis on international issues for the EU ’s common foreign and security policy (CFSP).

3. Takes the view that in its draft Strategy Paper and draft National Indicative Programme 2007-2010 for Brazil the Commission exceeds its implementing powers laid down in the basic act by earmarking 70% of the National Indicative Programme for Priority I ‘Enhancing Bilateral Relations’, which has as specific objectives: ‘i) [to] improve the sectoral dialogues between the EU and Brazil on themes of mutual interest; ii) [to] expand cooperation and exchanges between relevant European and Brazilian institutions and civil society organisations; iii) [to] strengthen links between EU and Brazilian academia; iv) [to] enhance mutual awareness between EU and Brazilian institutions and societies’, and under which a facility ‘to promote and support ...[+++] sectoral dialogues on themes of common interest’ will be financed, as well as the establishment of a European Studies Institute, with the main purpose of ‘raising the EU’s profile’ and ‘strengthening higher education links’; considers that these objectives are not in compliance with Article 2(1) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006, in that the primary objective of the Strategy Paper is not the eradication of poverty and in that the stated objectives do not fulfil the criteria for ODA established by the OECD/DAC;

We have a European Studies Institute and we – both Russia and the European Union – might go on to work with this Institute and maybe even double our input.

(i) [to] improve the sectoral dialogues between the EU and Brazil on themes of mutual interest; ii) [to] expand cooperation and exchanges between relevant European and Brazilian institutions and civil society organisations; iii) [to] strengthen links between EU and Brazilian academia; iv) [to] enhance mutual awareness between EU and Brazilian institutions and societies", and under which a facility "to promote and support sectoral dialogues on themes of common interest" will be financed, as well as the establishment of a European Studies Institute, with the main purpose of "raising the EU's profile" and "strengthening higher education ...[+++]links"; considers that these objectives are not in compliance with Article 2(1) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006, in that the primary objective of the Strategy Paper is not the eradication of poverty and in that the stated objectives do not fulfil the criteria for ODA established by the OECD/DAC;

3. Takes the view that in its draft Strategy Paper and draft National Indicative Programme 2007-2010 for Brazil the European Commission exceeds its implementing powers laid down in the basic act by earmarking 70 % of the National Indicative Programme for Priority I ‘Enhancing Bilateral Relations’, which has as specific objectives: ‘i) improve the sectoral dialogues between the EU and Brazil on themes of mutual interest; ii) expand cooperation and exchanges between relevant European and Brazilian institutions and civil society organisations; iii) strengthen links between EU and Brazilian academia; iv) enhance mutual awareness between EU and Brazilian institutions and societies’, and under which a facility ‘to promote and support sectoral ...[+++]dialogues on themes of common interest’ will be financed, as well as the establishment of a European Studies Institute, with the main purpose of ‘raising the EU’s profile’ and ‘strengthening higher education links’; considers that these elements are not in compliance with Article 2(1) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006, as the primary objective of the Country Strategy Paper is not the eradication of poverty, and as these elements do not fulfil the criteria for ODA established by the OECD/DAC;

(i) [to] improve the sectoral dialogues between the EU and Brazil on themes of mutual interest; ii) [to] expand cooperation and exchanges between relevant European and Brazilian institutions and civil society organisations; iii) [to] strengthen links between EU and Brazilian academia; iv) [to] enhance mutual awareness between EU and Brazilian institutions and societies", and under which a facility "to promote and support sectoral dialogues on themes of common interest" will be financed, as well as the establishment of a European Studies Institute, with the main purpose of "raising the EU's profile" and "strengthening higher education ...[+++]links"; considers that these objectives are not in compliance with Article 2(1) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006, in that the primary objective of the Strategy Paper is not the eradication of poverty and in that the stated objectives do not fulfil the criteria for ODA established by the OECD/DAC;