29. Welcomes the proposals for a European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion, but calls for more concrete actions to deliver social inclusion, in particular by strengthening the Social Open Method of Coordination, as an integrated strategy involving national and local stakeholders, including people who experience poverty and social exclusion; reiterates its call for a broader agenda to promote decent work, ensure workers’ rights throughout Europe and improve working conditions, tackle inequality and discrimination, and combat in-work poverty;

Their concern, which was expressed by the previous speaker, is that there are some, not all, animal activist rights groups within Canada that are on record as saying that, if Bill C-10 passes, they will use it to launch test cases against farmers and ranchers who use legitimate, normal, animal husbandry practices.

In any case, as has just been said, these shadows reinforce the need for the Community method and majority decisions; I refer also to the security and defence policy, in which progress has been made, and to foreign policy, which is still poorly defined.

The decisions taken in relation to the declaration on the future of Europe, in relation to the Convention method, in relation to making the common security and defence policy operative, the declarations on the Middle East peace process, Afghanistan, etc. and above all, in relation to the fight against terrorism, are going to allow the European Union to move forward and make progress.

As regards the pilot projects, a variety of topics are represented by the biomedical and legal aspects of doping ; the harmonisation of laws and rules, procedures, test methods and lists of illicit substances ; the development of electronic working tools for scientific anti-doping work ; the prevention, especially with regard to young people, and information to the public about the health-damaging effects of doping ; using young people as ambassadors of the fight for clean sports ; mapping health-damaging effects ; the ethical aspects of doping ; anti-doping work as a dimension in Europe's Transatlantic and Mediterranean relations ...[+++].

Social shaping of technology (University of Edinburgh) Defence restructuring and conversion (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo) Quality and ethical aspects of interventions against drug abuse in Europe (Addiction Research Institute, Zurich) Urban forests and trees in Europe (Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute) Standardisation and dissemination of serotonin reception imaging methodology (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm) Health effects related to the use of radio telephones (National Institute for Working Life, Solna).