Notes the importance of skilled and trained entrepreneurs in facing the challenges of international business; calls on the Commission to promote the ‘Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs’ programme and to study the possibility of an ‘Erasmus Mundus for Entrepreneurs’ in order to give talented entrepreneurs the opportunity to acquire experience in, and network with, centres of excellence outside the EU, also through advanced business culture training, which allows an international entrepreneurial vision to be gained, in order to acquire the necessary and fundamental tools to compete in a global market; calls on the Commission and the Member ...[+++]States to include young entrepreneurs and industrial policy in the relevant EU policies for the ‘Erasmus for All’ programme;

- learning opportunities for young people (education and training programmes) : the Commission has set up various information portals, such as PLOTEUS, the Portal on Learning Opportunities throughout the European Space[15], the Youth portal[16], Study in Europe[17], Euraxess – Researchers in motion[18], the Marie Curie website for all Marie Curie Actions[19], YourEurope[20], Euroguidance[21], EURES[22] and Eurodesk[23], Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs[24] and support for training and mobility for SME's[25].

12. Emphasises the need for the two arms of the budgetary authority to rapidly agree on the multi-annual framework 2007-2013, thus permitting Member States to plan their programmes and avoid undue delay in commencing them; furthermore, draws attention to the need to avoid the delays in implementation experienced at the beginning of the current programming period;

Multi-annual programming has been one of the main successes of the Structural Funds method and the benefits of this approach have become clearer over time as Member State capacity to plan programmes over a number of years has developed.

This includes the obligation to draw up a binding contract between newly arrived foreigners and local authorities and to develop a planned integration programme focusing on increasing employment.

In particular, the Commission's internal procedures for planning and programming of work have been significantly improved (allowing in particular for the results of policy and programme evaluations to be fed better into policy design).