Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc said, "Three weeks after the aviation deal in Montreal, the momentum for global action on climate remains strong.

setting up and developing integration strategies, encompassing different aspects of the two-way dynamic process, to be implemented at national/local/regional level where appropriate, taking into account the integration needs of third-country nationals at local/regional level, addressing specific needs of different categories of migrants and developing effective partnerships between relevant stakeholders.

In exercising its implementing powers, the Commission should respect the following principles: the need to ensure confidence in financial markets among investors by promoting high standards of transparency in those markets; the need to provide investors with a wide range of competing investments and a level of disclosure and protection tailored to their circumstances; the need to ensure that independent regulatory authorities enforce the rules consistently, especially as regards the fight against economic crime; the need for high levels of transparency and consultation with all market participants and with the European Parliament and the Council; the need to encourage innovation in financial markets if they are to be ...[+++]dynamic and efficient; the need to ensure market integrity by close and reactive monitoring of financial innovation; the importance of reducing the cost of, and increasing access to, capital; the balance of costs and benefits to market participants on a long-term basis (including small and medium-sized businesses and small investors) in any implementing measures; the need to foster the international competitiveness of EU financial markets without prejudice to a much-needed extension of international cooperation; the need to achieve a level playing field for all market participants by establishing EU-wide regulations every time it is appropriate; the need to respect differences in national markets where these do not unduly impinge on the cohesion of the single market; and the need to ensure coherence with other Community legislation in this area, as imbalances in information and a lack of transparency may jeopardise the operation of the markets and above all harm consumers and small investors.

Firmly rooted in the real world, these partnerships, which bring together partners from state and private bodies and associations, will have to act as genuine vehicles for this joint employment dynamic by the Member States. They must do so by increasing locally the profile of the annual guidelines; by giving thought to the activities and exchanges strengthened at the transnational level; by systematically looking for ways to build on the good practices detected, and by being explicitly mindful of impact and mainstreaming in the employment policies of the member states and in the joint strategy.

Finally, he stressed that "our current experience of the organisations of social economy in our countries should be strenghtened and developped at European level through cooperation, solidarity and pooling of their forces" and assured that as Commissioner he "will work in this direction to ensure that the radical dynamic of these organisations is expressed also at a European level".

Outside that area, in the town as such, we have become much more dynamic in terms of industrial and residential development.