5. Calls for the setting-up of an independent committee to investigate, with the advice of a recognised international body such as the Council of Europe, all the human rights and criminal violations that have taken place since the Euromaidan demonstrations began, in particular the criminal use of live ammunition by police snipers to massacre unarmed protestors; calls for an investigation into the massive embezzlement of state funds and assets by the cronies and ‘family’ of ousted President Yanukovych, for the freezing of all their assets pending clarification of how they were acquired and, where they are proved to have been stolen, for the ret ...[+++]urn of such assets by the governments of EU Member States such as the UK, Latvia and Austria, which are believed to be the main recipients;

42. Acknowledges the great difference among Member States in achieving the common targets for early school leaving and higher number of tertiary graduates and takes note that there is a risk that the targets will not be achieved on European level, and calls on the Commission to ensure that the criteria for measuring the achievements are comparable across Member States;

This latter is now worryingly close to 1%, or in other words the symbolic, and indeed real, threshold below which achievement of the EU’s basic goals cannot be safeguarded.

Recent experience in the field of road safety and CO2 in cars has shown us that the risks of not achieving objectives, in terms of effectiveness and enforcement across the board, which a normal law could have achieved, are very real where these voluntary agreements are used.

Yet, there can be real progress if the right priorities are set.

(h) the rules governing the distribution of the proceeds of the realisation of assets, the ranking of claims and the rights of creditors who have obtained partial satisfaction after the opening of insolvency proceedings by virtue of a right in re or through a set-off.