The examination of the Member States’ draft national reform programmes, contained in the Joint Employment Report adopted by the Council on 28 February 2013, shows that Member States should continue to make every effort to address the following priorities: increasing labour market participation and reducing structural unemployment, developing a skilled workforce responding to labour market needs and promoting job quality and lifelong learning, improving the performance of education and training systems at all levels and increasing participation in tertiary education, promoting social inclusion and combating poverty.

Yes, we need to do everything to re-establish a strong, democratic and sovereign Lebanese state and to disarm all the armed militias.

Full consideration shall be given to ensuring that the Community's environmental policy-making is undertaken in an integrated way and to all available options and instruments, taking into account regional and local differences, as well as ecologically sensitive areas, with an emphasis on:

The lives of the Russian hostages being held in the Moscow theatre absolutely must be saved and everything must be done to help to find a solution.

8. Takes the view that everything possible should be done to safeguard jobs at the sites concerned so as not to add social tragedy to the environmental threat, and that any solution concerning the future of the sites and the jobs must be sought in close cooperation with the employees and the elected representatives;

Full consideration shall be given to ensuring that the Community's environmental policy-making is undertaken in an integrated way and to all available options and instruments, taking into account regional and local differences, as well as ecologically sensitive areas, with an emphasis on: