8. Stresses that the financial, sovereign debt and competitiveness crisis cannot be solved by means of a loose monetary policy alone; Stresses, therefore, the importance of continuing the process of deep, balanced and socially sustainable structural reforms to deliver on growth and jobs; reiterates, in this connection, the fact that the EU cannot compete on costs alone, but needs to invest much more in research and development, industrial development, education and skills, and resource efficiency, both at national and European level; recalls that the very aim of structural reforms and decreasing the level of public and private debt sh ...[+++]ould be to be able to focus on sustainable growth friendly policies and ultimately provide jobs and fight poverty; calls on the Commission and the Member States to exploit more fully the potential of promotional banks to stimulate the economy in the European Union;

11. Calls on the Member States, with regard to export controls and application of the eight criteria, to pay greater attention to goods which may be used for both civilian and military purposes, such as surveillance technology, and similarly to spare parts and products suitable for use in cyber warfare or non-lethal human rights abuses;

In addition, a European consumer information policy that highlights efforts by Community producers to comply with European Union regulations in the areas of the environment, food security and animal welfare is needed, since Community producers have to compete with imports from third countries, where the standards applied are much lower.

I think that this is a very important aspect and warrants very special treatment, at least in two chapters of relations that are highly relevant to the European Union: the first concerns the United States, with whom we also have discuss legal and criminal matters, whilst at the same time, of course, respecting our extradition system and maintaining our position of clear opposition to the death penalty, or of support for the jurisdiction of the courts and for all the sentences that can be handed down to an individual.

Of particular relevance to today's discussion are Article 17, which encourages the development of appropriate guidelines for the protection of the child from information and material injurious to his or her well-being, and Article 24, which recognizes the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health.

We heard from an academic who studied both Air Canada and Canadian, where in fact the management mentality was to beat up on each other for eight or 10 years and not look at the factors affecting consumers, such as capacity, such as profitability, to the point that now we're left with one very badly struggling company and one that seems to think they're healthy but didn't make any money for seven out of 10 years, and when they did make it the one year, it was because they sold Continental Air.