tapering of rates

first-in-first-out method of inventory valuation

Over €80 billion (in current prices) have been allocated to investment in human capital in the fields of employment, education, and social inclusion, including access to health care and health promotion via the European Social Fund (ESF)This puts an end to the gradual decrease of the ESF share within cohesion policy funding in the past 25 years.

In mitigating the effects of climate change , EU agriculture has contributed more than other sectors to curbing green house gas emissions. This is mainly due to the improvement of production methods (i.e. more efficient use of fertilisers) and diminishing cattle numbers.

17. Calls on the Commission to continue supporting China in the process of achieving its strategic development goals, but at the same time to move away from traditional development cooperation and aid, through a gradual reduction in ODA (official development assistance) as of 2013, towards a more balanced, commercially oriented relationship with China in the interests of both sides; stresses in this respect that the new approach must take into consideration the fact that China has become itself an important donor, especially in Africa, and that therefore its development agenda with the EU should rather focus on concrete areas of common ...[+++]interest; emphasises that the EU’s trade relations with China should continuously be complemented with efforts and demands for democratic development;

We are looking at the ageing of European society almost exclusively from the point of view of the dwindling workforce and, in the process, completely disregarding the development of productivity.