In response to (b), parkas were provided to those involved in the event, including: officials from Canada, the Minister of Finance, Tiff Macklem, Associate Deputy Minister of Finance and G-7 Deputy for Canada, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada; from France, Christine Lagarde, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Employment, Christian Noyer, Governor of the Bank of France, Ramon Fernandez, Director of the Treasury; from Germany, Wolfgang Schäuble, Minister of Finance, Axel Weber, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Jörg Asmussen, State Secretary for the Ministry of Finance; from Italy, Giulio Tremonti, Minister of the Econo ...[+++]my and Finance, Mario Draghi, Governor of the Bank of Italy, Vittorio Grilli, Director for International Financial Relations; from Japan, Naoto Kan, Minister of Finance, Masaaki Shirakawa, Governor of the Bank of Japan, Rintaro Tamaki, Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, from the United Kingdom, the right hon. Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, Michael Ellam, Managing Director, International and Europe, International and Finance Directorate; from the United States of America, Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, Lael Brainard, Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury; from the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank; from Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister; from the European Commission, Joaquin Almunia, Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Marco Buti, Director General of Economic and Financial Affairs; from the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director; from the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, President, Jeffrey Lewis, Senior Adviser and Head of the International Policy and Partnerships Group; from the Financial Stability Board, Rupert Thorne, Deputy to th ...

6. Calls for the Spring European Council of March 2007 to ensure that the future energy policy of Europe is backed up by an ambitious R D strategy in the field of energy including more adequate public funding and strong incentives for increased private R D funding, fulfilling corporate social responsibility obligations; encourages Member States to set out a strategy for increasing the budget for energy research, especially when there is a mid-term review of the EC budget in the Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological ...[+++]development and demonstration activities (FP7) and in the Intelligent Energy Specific Program; calls for a European strategic energy technology plan and hopes that its content will cover research fields focusing on new energy technologies in the medium and long term, including in particular energy storage;

18. Is convinced that raising the EU's competitiveness is an essential element of the EU's response to the challenges of globalisation; therefore considers increases in appropriations in heading 1a to be a clear signal of the future direction that EU spending should take; recalls the need for adequate public funding to create the pump-priming effect expected of European Investment Bank cofinancing; awaits with impatience the proposals by the Commission and Council on this subject; stresses that an increase in the long-term subscri ...[+++]bed capital would be desirable for the European Investment Fund, both to accompany the introduction of the new mandates (including the CIP) in 2007 and to finance the new technology transfer project operations, as wished by Parliament, the Council or the Commission;

18. Is convinced that raising the EU's competitiveness is an essential element of the EU's response to the challenges of globalisation; therefore considers increases in appropriations in heading 1a to be a clear signal of the future direction that EU spending should take; recalls the need for adequate public funding to create the pump-priming effect expected of European Investment Bank cofinancing; awaits with impatience the proposals by the Commission and Council on this subject; stresses that an increase in the long-term subscri ...[+++]bed capital would be desirable for the European Investment Fund, both to accompany the introduction of the new mandates (including the CIP) in 2007 and to finance the new technology transfer project operations, as wished by Parliament, the Council or the Commission;

This funding includes the following: $328 million to improve public access to high quality health care information and to better inform Canadians about the performance of their health care system, consistent with the social union framework agreed to by all the provinces; $240 million to support the development of the Canadian Institute of Health Research; $150 million in additional funding for health related research for the advanced research granting councils, the National Research Council and Health Canada; an additional $200 mil ...[+++]lion for the Canada Foundation for Innovation; $190 million to better meet the health needs of first nations and Inuit communities; and $287 million to improve prenatal nutrition, food safety, toxic substances control, to foster innovation in rural and community health, and to combat diabetes.

The Governments of the Member States and the European Commission were represented as follows: Belgium: Mr Philippe MAYSTADT Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance and Foreign Trade Denmark: Ms Marianne JELVED Minister for Economic Affairs Mr Michael DITHMER State Secretary for the Economy Germany: Mr Jürgen STARK State Secretary for Finance Greece: Mr Paulos APOSTOLIDES Ambassador, Permanent Representative Spain: Mr Pedro SOLBES MIRA Minister for the Economy and Finance Mr Manuel CONTHE State Secretary for the Economy France: Mr Jean ARTHUIS Minister fo ...[+++]r Economic Development and Planning Ireland: Mr Hugh COVENEY Minister of State at the Department of Finance Italy: Mr Lamberto DINI President of the Council and Minister for the Treasury Luxembourg: Mr Jean-Claude JUNCKER Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Mr Robert GOEBBELS Minister for the Economy Netherlands: Mr Gerrit ZALM Minister for Finance Austria: Mr Viktor KLIMA Minister for Finance Portugal: Mr Fernando TEIXEIRA dos SANTOS State Secretary for the Treasury and Financial Affairs Finland: Mr Iiro VIINANEN Minister for Finance Mr Raimo SAILAS State Secretary for Finance Sweden: Mr Göran PERSSON Minister for Finance Mr Svante ÖBERG State Secretary for Finance United Kingdom: Mr Kenneth CLARKE Chancellor of the Exchequer Commission: Mr Jacques SANTER President Mr Yves-Thibault de SILGUY Member Also attending: Sir Nigel WICKS Chairman of the Monetary Committee WORK PROGRAMMES OF THE PRESIDENCY AND THE COMMISSION - Public debate The Council held a public debate on the Italian Presidency's programme for the first half of 1996, presented by President DINI, and on the Commission's ECOFIN programme for 1996, set out by President SANTER.