countries where the Union intends to synchronise its strategy with a new national cycle starting before 1 January 2017; in such cases the multiannual indicative programme for the interim period between 1 January 2014 and the beginning of the new national cycle shall contain the Union's response for that country.

countries where the Union intends to synchronise its strategy with a new national cycle starting before 1 January 2017; in such cases the multiannual indicative programme for the interim period between 2014 and the beginning of the new national cycle shall contain the Union's response for that country.

(d) countries where the Union intends to synchronise its strategy with a new national cycle starting before 1 January 2017; in such cases the multiannual indicative programme for the interim period between 2014 and the beginning of the new national cycle shall contain the Union's response for that country.

1. Finds the overwhelming general lack of ambition being demonstrated by the Council in its response to the crisis to be of very great concern; is worried, furthermore, about the negative influence that national electoral cycles are having on the Union’s ability to take autonomous decisions; deplores the further postponing of all decisions on the future architecture of the EMU; likewise deplores the fact that the European Council has twice delayed its anticipated decisions on the future of the EMU and that it may do so once again a ...[+++]t the next summit;

69. Considers that, with a view to reaching the common objectives, Europe 2020 and the European Semester as a framework for strengthened economic and social governance have a potential to help reinforce a common approach to the challenges, the responses and the assessment of the employment and social situation in the Member States if these were to progress beyond the level of nominal intention and if the European Parliament were genuinely involved in this process, contrary to what happened during the first European Semester, including in relation to the first Annual Growth Survey, which marked the start of a new ...[+++]cycle of economic governance in the EU;

35. Stresses the need for a successful pro-development outcome of the Doha Round; stresses also that the developed world should reinforce its commitment to reforming its farm subsidies through a world trade deal; underlines that there is a need for discipline on subsidies that lead to dumping or reduce export opportunities for developing countries; stresses that there is also a need for trade facilitation and cooperation to help food move more quickly and cheaply to where it is needed; recalls, in this connection, the efforts of the Commission to secure a trade deal at the WTO that would help boost developing countries’ income and alleviate the problem of access to food, because in a less distorted market and with the necessary accompan ...[+++]ying measures food supply will increase in response to higher prices; stresses that the results of the Doha Round should give positive incentives to the developing countries to invest in their agriculture and food production;