8. Calls on Bulgaria to develop a clear strategy for integrating Bulgarian and mother-tongue teaching or for bi-lingual work with very young children, in order to create equal conditions for ethnic minority children; the reality remains, however, that out of 100 Roma students in first grade, only five (three girls and two boys) have a slim chance of completing secondary schooling, and that many physically and mentally healthy Roma children are channelled into so-called “relief schools” for mentally and physically disabled children;

Of the five strategic avenues, the two most basic are, first, finding new ways of working more closely with the market via businesses and consumers and, secondly, empowering people as private citizens.

Of the five strategic avenues, the two most basic are, first, finding new ways of working more closely with the market via businesses and consumers and, secondly, empowering people as private citizens.

In addition, five specific priorities are suggested for adoption at ASEM III. These are: an enhanced exchange of views on regional and global security issues; an enhanced result-oriented co-operation on trade and economic issues, including dialogue on social policy issues; intensified educational exchanges between our two regions; networking and co-operation in the field of consumer protection, and a possible enlargement of participation in the ASEM process

training for:- building surveyor ('geometra'),- land surveyor ('perito agrario'),- accountant ('ragioniero'), and accountancy expert ('perito commerciale'),- work consultants ('consulente del lavoro'),which represents secondary technical courses of a total duration of at least 13 years, comprising eight years' compulsory schooling followed by five years' secondary study, including three years' vocational study, culminating in the Technical Baccalaureat examination, and supplemented,- for building surveyors by:either a traineeship lasting at least two years in a professional office,or five years' work experience, and- for land surveyors, ...[+++]accountants, accountancy experts and work consultants, by the completion of a practical traineeship lasting at least two years,followed by the State Examination.

On a proposal by Mr Bruce Millan, Member of the Commission responsible for Regional Policy, the Commission has adopted a programme for overall Community financial aid of ECU 21.6 million (providing LIT 33 billion or FF 150 million for the implementation of the Community INTERREG initiative in parts of Corsica and Sardinia. This assistance is made up as follows: ERDF = ECU 19 million, ESF = ECU 1 million and EAGGF Guidance ECU = 1.6 million". Cross-border cooperation is always a major objective of Community measures" underlined Mr Millan, "but it is all the more so when this involves bringing together islands and their people, by integrating them into a common economic whole". The programme, which will benefit the department of South Corsic ...[+++]a and the province of Sassari, is centred on five main priorities: (i) the improvement of port installations intended to increase passenger and goods transport capacities between South Corsica and the Province of Sassari; (ii) encouragement of scientific cooperation via common research programmes between the universities of Corsica and Sassari with exchanges between the agricultural research centres (iii) optimum use of common sea space, particularly by the promotion of tourist routes in the Corsica-Sardinia basin and measures to protect the Maddalena archipelago and the Lavezzi islands; (iv) incentives for trade between the two islands, in particular by services provided to companies and the training schemes for those working in sport and tourism (v) the development of cross-border trade: this involves a number of measures intended to improve knowledge of each other's people.