1. Stresses the importance of regional airports in the context of air transport and their important role in contributing to territorial, economic and social cohesion, both within the Member States and throughout the Union, by connecting regions; points out that existing public service obligations should be maintained, and that any such obligations agreed in the future should be justified by the need to guarantee the accessibility and territorial continuity of regions, such as the outermost regions, peripheral or island reg ...[+++]ions, and central areas not lying on the main transport routes, given that suitable air transport links would enable them to cope with their inherent geographical handicaps; notes that priority should be given to improving intermodality in order to achieve this objective; favours the option of concluding partnership agreements backed by national and regional authorities and airlines; notes the importance of airports, which are sometimes the only effective link between a region and the rest of Europe; stresses that regional airports are also needed in the least developed regions of Europe, which lack strong road or rail networks; believes, therefore, that proper connections to the regions should be provided; notes that, in the context of the current economic crisis and efforts at fiscal consolidation, the right balance should be struck between each airport’s need to be competitive and balance its books and the social and regional needs that must be met;

The Canadian Home Builders' Association's pre-budget submission raises five central matters: one, the need to adjust the GST rebate thresholds for new homebuyers; two, the need to expand the definition of a substantial renovation; three, the need to tackle the underground economy head on, which means replacing the contract payment reporting system now in effect and currently grossly ineffective, and also requiring that all businesses have a federal business number; four, the need to reform tax measures for rental housing investment, particularly to examine the zero-rating of investment in housing, rental housing production, and also t ...[+++]o re-examine the definition and application of the capital gains tax deferments; and five, the need to monitor federal infrastructure investment to make sure that it does go to the areas of greatest interest to the government and to Canadians—clean air, clean water, clean land, and efficient roads and transit.

Numerous industrial projects have already benefited from its programme: the ‘Kombiverkehr’ project which served to introduce a multimodal train-ferry service between Italy and Sweden, ‘Lokomotiv’, which has linked Germany and Italy by intermodal rail services run by private rail companies, ‘Oy Langh Ship’, which introduced an intermodal service combining maritime, rail and river transport between Finland and Central ...[+++] Europe, etc.

Numerous industrial projects have already benefited from its programme: the ‘Kombiverkehr’ project which served to introduce a multimodal train-ferry service between Italy and Sweden, ‘Lokomotiv’, which has linked Germany and Italy by intermodal rail services run by private rail companies, ‘Oy Langh Ship’, which introduced an intermodal service combining maritime, rail and river transport between Finland and Central ...[+++] Europe, etc.