As an immediate response to the Arab Spring in Algeria, the EU has launched a €23.5 million Youth Employment Support Programme that will support the Ministry of Youth and Sport at national and local level, as well as youth organizations, through information, training, and the funding of projects.

Together, the African Union, the Arab League, the Islamic community, the European Union, the United States and Canada can all legitimately intervene.

Recommends that Member States make more effective use of the potential of sport to create jobs and promote economic growth and revitalisation, particularly in disadvantaged areas and that Member States and the Union support sport accordingly through existing EU funding programmes and in this light underlines the important role sport can play in the field of social inclusion; recognises the role of income from media and other intellectual property rights in the growth of expenditure on revital ...[+++]isation and community projects,

Asks the Commission to have due respect for the specificity of sports, by not taking a case-by-case approach and to provide more legal certainty by creating clear guidelines on the applicability of European law to sports in Europe and by supporting studies and seminars on the concrete application of the ‘acquis communautaire’ on sport; invites the Commission to ensure clarity, coherence and public visibility of EU rules, so that sports services of general interest can fulfil their objectives and contribute to a better quality of life for European citizens; further asks the Commission to monitor and regularly review the application of E ...[+++]U law in accordance with the EC Treaty to take account of new realities so as to identify and solve pending or emerging issues;

Mr. Stockwell Day (Okanagan—Coquihalla, Canadian Alliance): Mr. Speaker, just last week, the European Union formally called upon Yasser Arafat for “the dismantling of Hamas' and Islamic Jihad's terrorist networks, including the arrest and prosecution of all suspects” , and asked him to give a public appeal in Arabic for an end to the armed intifada.

On this point, Mr Cheysson said that practical implementation of last December's agreement between the Commission and Israël should be possible in the near future, given the latest positions adopted very recently by the Israeli and Palestinian authorities (1) Dr REDA, Vice-President, Mr BOURAOUI, Secretary-General of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union, Mr EL HASSAN, member of the Palestine National Council, Mr PEHINI, Lebanon parlamentarian, Mr CHAOUACHI and Mr KARICHALL, Tunisian parliamentarians, Mr AL OWEIS, United Arab Emirats parliamentarians, Mr OMKAYES, Director of the ...[+++] Damascus Office and Mr KOTTHAUS, Secretary-General of the Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation.