We suggest two kinds of initiatives: first, to re-ignite our foreign aid program with new resources and new commitments; and second, to continue to take a leadership role on international debt, finance, and economic governance issues.

3. Highlights the cross-cutting nature and added value of regional quality brands which support specific agricultural products as well as handcrafts and craftsmanship, and specific production processes; emphasises the value of cooperation between regional quality brands that is based on interaction between the resources shared by several regional brands at local and regional level and on synergies between neighbouring regional brands; believes that regionally branded products may serve as good companion products and guides to other services provided rurally, such as sustainable tourism, accommodation, catering services etc.; stresses, in this connection, that an integrated and holistic approach to the promotion of regionally branded prod ...[+++]ucts and their implementation at local, regional, national and European level is essential; considers that full support should be given to improving the marketing of regional brands and their geographical indications in order to enhance their image both within and outside the EU; stresses the need to avoid the risk of regional brand designations used to label agricultural products being mistaken for current EU designations of origin and geographical indications in the agri-food sector, since products with protected designations must meet specific criteria established by regulatory bodies;

24. Emphasizes the need to promote ethical journalism in media; calls upon the European Commission to propose a legal instrument (e.g. by means of a recommendation such as the recommendation of 20 December 2006 on the protection of minors and human dignity and on the right of reply in relation to the competitiveness of the European audiovisual and online information services industry) to ensure that the Member States oblige the media sector to develop professional standards and ethical codes which include the obligation to indicate a difference between facts and opinions in reporting, the necessity of accuracy, impartiality and objectiv ...[+++]ity, respect for people’s privacy, the duty to correct misinformation and the right of reply; this legal framework should foresee the establishment by the media sector of an independent media regulatory authority – operating independently from political or other external interference – that can treat complaints about the press based on the professional standards and ethical codes, and that has the authority to take appropriate sanctions;

3. Agrees with the principles set out by the Financial Stability Board in October 2010 giving general guidance on how to reduce reliance on external credit ratings, and welcomes the Commission's public consultation starting in November 2010; asks the Commission to review whether and how Member States use ratings for regulatory purposes in order to reduce the general over-reliance on them of the financial regulatory system;

Theoretically there are external borders and then internal borders, but the external borders differ from State to State and, therefore, if decisions cannot be adopted in the Council in this area enabling immigration to be regulated in a uniform manner throughout the European Union, it will be impossible to create a great Union market.

Sixty-eight per cent of those polled believe the people who live outside Vancouver and Victoria tend to be ignored in provincial politics.