N. whereas US President Obama has announced an open-ended campaign of airstrikes against ISIS militants in Syria in addition to those already being carried out in Iraq, and is actively building support for an international military coalition; whereas France is expected to join the military offensive in Iraq while the governments of several countries, notably Germany, have announced their intention to support Kurdish forces with arms deliveries; whereas the Assad regime has expressed its readiness to join the international effort against ISIS, while asking to give its prior consent to any strikes, and has recently been conducting airstr ...[+++]ikes against ISIS positions;

Apart from interventions on external borders supported by external policy instruments of the Union covering border regions inside and outside the Union, it should be possible for cooperation programmes supported by the ERDF to cover regions both inside and, in certain cases, outside the Union, where the regions outside the Union are not covered by external policy instruments either because they are not defined as a beneficiary country or because such external cooperation programmes cannot be set up.

(14) Apart from interventions on external borders supported by external policy instruments of the Union covering border regions inside and outside the Union, there may be cooperation programmes supported by the ERDF that cover regions both inside and in certain cases outside the Union where the regions outside the Union are not covered by external policy instruments, either because they are not a defined beneficiary country or because such external cooperation programmes cannot be set up.

(14) Apart from interventions on external borders supported by external policy instruments of the Union covering border regions inside and outside the Union, there may be cooperation programmes supported by the ERDF that cover regions both inside and outside the Union where the regions outside the Union are not covered by external policy instruments, either because they are not a defined beneficiary country or because such external cooperation programmes cannot be set up.

57. Stresses that the EEAS will have a fundamental role to play in supporting the Vice-President of the Commission (High Representative) and will constitute an essential element of the success of the new integrated approach of the external action of the Union; stresses that the installation of the new service will require a formal proposal by the Vice-President of the Commission (High Representative), which will only be possible once he/she has taken up his/her duties, and which can only be adopted by the Council after the opinion of the European Parliament and the consent of the Commission; declares its intention to fully exercise its ...[+++] budgetary powers in relation to the setting-up of the EEAS;

The three largest Member States should realise that they cannot continue to be only half-committed to the cause.