These regions may be classed as: (a) industrial areas (8.5%) with unemployment rates higher than the Community average, with industrial employment greater than the Community average and in steady decline, (b) rural areas (5.2%) with a population density of fewer than 100 inhabitants per square kilometre, with an employment rate in the rural sector more than double the Community average, with an unemployment rate higher than the Community average and with a steadily declining population, (c) urban areas (1.9%) with long-term unemployment greater than the Community average, with a high level of poverty, with a particularly damaged social e ...[+++]nvironment, with a high crime rate, with low educational performance, (d) fisheries areas (0.3%), (e) mixed areas (2.1%).

64. Calls on the Member States to submit national reform programmes consistent with the aim of the Platform and with the Union's objectives of social and sustainable development, and, supporting the Commission's recognition that poverty ‘is unacceptable in 21st-century Europe’, calls on them to refrain from calling into question wage indexation systems and collective labour agreements or restricting, in an unreasonable and unjustified way, their capacity for investment and social spending in the context of economic governance, whilst ensuring the sustainability of public finances and the creation of well-paid jobs, bearing in mind that poverty reduction is an essential corollary of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; calls for clarifi ...[+++]cation of the status of national action plans for social inclusion and, in particular, the question of their integration into national reform programmes under the Europe 2020 strategy; calls on the Commission to develop country-specific recommendations with a view to meeting the poverty reduction target, especially in the event that those programmes are not successful, bearing in mind that poverty reduction requires us to step up our efforts and mobilise all parties and all our resources to reduce poverty and extreme poverty significantly in the medium term, and to reduce greatly or eradicate poverty by 2020 at the latest; proposes that the Commission draw up guidelines at European level for the Member States so as to ensure that local authorities and other stakeholders participate effectively in the drafting of national reform programmes; notes that ‘territorial pacts’ potentially offer the most comprehensive and consistent means of involving local authorities in this process, as proposed in the Fifth Cohesion Report; believes that the Europe 2020 target of reducing the number of people at risk of poverty by 20 million can be achieved only if the austerity measures currently being taken in the EU, and those to be taken in the ...

1. For the purposes of this Regulation, a natural or legal person shall be considered to have an uncovered position in a credit default swap relating to an obligation of a Member State or the Union, to the extent that the credit default swap is not serving to hedge against either the risk of default of the issuer where the natural or legal person has a long position in the sovereign debt of that issuer or the risk of decline in the value of any asset or portfolio of assets to the natural or legal person holding such asset or portfolio of assets where the decline of the price of those asset or portfolio of assets has a high correlation wi ...[+++]th the decline of the price of the obligation of a Member state or the Union in the case of a decline in the creditworthiness of a Member State or the Union .

1. For the purposes of this Regulation, a natural or legal person shall be considered to have an uncovered position in a credit default swap relating to an obligation of a Member State or the Union, to the extent that the credit default swap is not serving to hedge against either the risk of default of the issuer where the natural or legal person has a long position in the sovereign debt of that issuer or the risk of decline in the value of any asset or portfolio of assets to the natural or legal person holding such asset or portfolio of assets where the decline of the price of those asset or portfolio of assets has a high correlation wi ...[+++]th the decline of the price of the obligation of a Member state or the Union in the case of a decline in the creditworthiness of a Member State or the Union.

A debilitating clinical condition for the purposes of this Directive means a reduction in a person’s normal physical or psychological ability to function.

15. Calls on the Commission to submit a study of the experiments carried out by the Member States to encourage the reduction and adaptation of working hours, and particularly their impact on SMEs and micro-firms; calls on the Commission, further, to assess the impact on unemployment of a modulation of social security contributions (between the first 32 hours worked and the remainder), examining whether a possible decrease in the contributions received might not be offset by lower expenditure resulting from a fall in unemployment;