62. Calls on the Commission to ensure through the revised employment guidelines in 2014 that employment and social policies must play an active role in the response to the crisis; urges the Commission, in this regard, to help the Member States to develop strategies for building new skills and helping unemployed persons find their way into the labour market as soon as possible; highlights, nevertheless, the fact that a major effort should be made through the Youth Employment Initiative to provide support in the Union’s most seriously affected regions to vulnerable groups, and to young people not in employment, education or training (NEE ...[+++]Ts), who are unemployed or inactive, by accelerating the delivery of activities supported by ESF funding;

12. Calls on the Commission to ensure in 2014, through the revised employment guidelines, that employment and social policies play an active role in the response to the crisis; urges the Commission, in this regard, to help the Member States to develop strategies for building new skills and helping unemployed persons find their way into the labour market as soon as possible; recalls, nevertheless, that a major effort should be made, through the Youth Employment Initiative, to provide support in the Union’s most seriously affected regions to vulnerable groups, and to young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs), who are ...[+++]unemployed or inactive, by reinforcing and accelerating the delivery of activities supported by ESF funding;

62. Calls on the Commission to ensure through the revised employment guidelines in 2014 that employment and social policies must play an active role in the response to the crisis; urges the Commission, in this regard, to help the Member States to develop strategies for building new skills and helping unemployed persons find their way into the labour market as soon as possible; highlights, nevertheless, the fact that a major effort should be made through the Youth Employment Initiative to provide support in the Union’s most seriously affected regions to vulnerable groups, and to young people not in employment, education or training (NEE ...[+++]Ts), who are unemployed or inactive, by accelerating the delivery of activities supported by ESF funding;

2. Recalls, in the light of current events in the southern Mediterranean, particularly in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, and other countries calling for democratic reforms, the ENP's failure to promote and safeguard human rights in third countries; urges the EU to draw lessons from those events and to revise its democracy and human rights support policy so as to create an implementation mechanism for the human rights clause included in all agreements with third countries; insists that the review of the ENP must prioritise criteria relating to the independence of the judiciary, respect for fundamental freedoms, pluralism and freedom of the press and the f ...[+++]ight against corruption; calls for better coordination with the Union's other policies vis-à-vis those countries;

In fact a press conference is going on right now in the press room with police and law enforcers saying that this is not going to cut it.

According to newspaper reports in Sweden, the EU's contribution of some SEK 200 million to Ford's investment in an engine factory in Wales now means that the six-cylinder engine developed by Volvo will not be built in Skövde, Sweden, but in Wales.