As regards ‘Secure Flight’ and CAPPS II, you will be aware that the US Transportation Security Administration has dropped its controversial computer-assisted passenger pre-screening system – also known as CAPPS II – in favour of a new programme called ‘Secure Flight’.

The communication approved by the Commission today on proximity policy meets this need, the need to create a reference framework within which we can develop ever closer relationships with our neighbours to the East and South, to create what I have described on several occasions, initially intuitively and then after increasing analysis and reflection, as the ring of friendly countries, the ring of friends which stretches from Russia to Morocco, a ring with which we can share everything except the institutions, in other words with which we can share programmes, market, rules and political dialogue but not Parliament, not the Council and no ...[+++]t the Commission.

The Return Action Programme, approved by the Council on 28 November 2002, which built upon the Commission Green Paper of 10 April 2002 on a Community return policy on illegal residents, as well as on the Communication of 14 October 2002 from the Commission to the European Parliament and to the Council on a Community return policy on illegal residents recommends, as one of the measures and actions with regard to improved operational cooperation among Member States, that the return of third-country nationals illegally resident in a Member State should be made as efficient as possible by sharing existing capacities for organising joint flig ...[+++]hts.

Mr Prodi, I speak on behalf of all those who share your principles, who share your programme, who share the idea that Europe must establish a new order of peace, prosperity and stability and that Europe must show coraggio , ambizione and visione (courage, ambition and vision).

Mr Prodi, I speak on behalf of all those who share your principles, who share your programme, who share the idea that Europe must establish a new order of peace, prosperity and stability and that Europe must show coraggio, ambizione and visione (courage, ambition and vision).

While these efforts are generally beneficial to airlines and consumers, under conditions of limited entry they may pose a risk to competition that the competent supervisory authorities have to take into account: strategic airlines alliances, for instance, often allow improved interlining and scheduling together with benefits of interchangeable frequent flyer programmes, but may also hold the potential for market dominance.