Conservatives knowingly ran the last election campaign with two sets of books: one for themselves and a different set of numbers they shared with the Canadian people.

The Union's humanitarian aid is delivered in situations where other instruments related to development cooperation, crisis management and civil protection may operate. The EU Aid Volunteers initiative should work in a coherent and complementary manner and avoid overlaps with relevant Union policies and instruments, in particular with the Union's humanitarian aid policy, development cooperation policy and the Union Civil Protection Mechanism established by Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council , the Emergency Response Coordination Centre established by that Decision and with the European External Action Se ...[+++]rvice (EEAS) and the EU Delegations in order to coordinate the Union's response to humanitarian crises in third countries.

The Conservative government engaging in doublespeak. We need only read the titles of its bills.

In what Stephen Lewis called a " double and duplicitous game," the major drug companies were fighting to keep the cheaper generic drugs out of South Africa by taking the South African government to court to stop it from engaging in parallel imports, a practice that is specifically authorized under the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement, or TRIPS, in the case of public health emergencies.

The assessment of an election, together with the decision on whether or not to send an observation mission, are politically sensitive issues. Both the political interests and the credibility of the EU are at stake.

For energy affairs the Community therefore intends to deploy a judicious combination of policy measures and market forces.