The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 142 in order to supplement or amend Sections 4 (Coordination and synergies between European Structural and Investment Funds and other Union policies and instruments) and 7 (Cooperation activities) of the Common Strategic Framework set out in Annex I where it is necessary to take account of changes in the Union policies or instruments ...[+++] referred to in Section 4 or changes in the cooperation activities referred to in Section 7, or to take account of the introduction of new Union policies, instruments or cooperation activities.

110. Underlines the need for better coordination and synergy between different EU, national, regional and local polices and instruments directly addressing SMEs; points out that existing policies and financial instruments for SME support should be addressed in a more coherent way, and should complement each other; stresses the need to reduce fragmentation, and to consolidate and promote financial support schemes for SMEs, in orde ...[+++]r to ensure greater pooling and coordination of resources at EU, national, regional and local levels; emphasises that competitiveness would also increase if investments and aid for SMEs are adapted to regional diversity;

And the truth is that we have, in the Treaty of Lisbon, if we truly wish to apply it, the instruments that we need to guarantee coordination and consistency, with no need for political or ideological divisions on this issue.

1. Agrees with the Commission that past enlargements have been a success, have strengthened the European Union by stimulating its economic growth, reinforcing its role in the world and promoting the development of new EU policies, and have promoted democracy, peace and prosperity in Europe; emphasises that enlargement in general is among the most effective instruments of foreign policy and conflict prevention policies of the EU; recalls that this success derives from the widespread support for past enlargements as the fulfilment of the initial mission of European integration to reunite the European continent after the ...[+++]political divisions of the twentieth century;

1. Agrees with the Commission that past enlargements have been a success, have strengthened the European Union by stimulating its economic growth, reinforcing its role in the world and promoting the development of new EU policies, and have promoted democracy, peace and prosperity in Europe; emphasises that enlargement in general is among the most effective instruments of foreign policy and conflict prevention policies of the EU; recalls that this success derives from the widespread support for past enlargements as the fulfilment of the initial mission of European integration to reunite the European continent after the ...[+++]political divisions of the twentieth century;

For example, ECHO has: - provided a channel for coordinating humanitarian aid with the United Nations and other international organizations; international agencies such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); Member States; the United States and other non-EU countries, and NGOs (non- governmental organizations); - provided a channel for dialogue with other institutions such as the European Parliament, which follows humanitarian aid policy with keen interest; - raised the EU's profile substantially in 1993 and 1994 ...[+++], drawing attention to its humanitarian aid in the media, the Member States, non- member countries, and in politics generally; - helped to prevent more extensive aid operations by developing proper disaster prevention mechanisms; - conducted humanitarian aid operations itself, for example food programmes in Croatia and Serbia/Montenegro; - set up a partnership and management tool, the Framework Partnership Agreement (approved by the Commission in a Decision of 5 May 1993), which has so far been signed by practically all the Commission's partners (over 140 NGOs and international organizations), speeding up and simplifying decision-making procedures and putting the Commission's relationships with NGOs and international organizations on a more structured, formal footing.