70. Stresses the urgent need to tackle the root causes of migration flows and, therefore, to address the external dimension of the refugee crisis, including by finding sustainable solutions to conflicts in our neighbourhood, through building cooperation and partnerships with the third countries concerned and through EU external policies; underlines the need for a comprehensive human rights-based approach to migration, and calls on the EU to reinforce its collaboration with the UN, including its agencies, as well as with regional organisations, governments and NGOs, in order to address the root causes of migration flows and improve the situation in refugee camps located near conflict areas; reiterates its call on the EU to ensure that all ...[+++]migration cooperation and readmission agreements with non-EU states comply with international law; recalls that a global strategy on migration is closely linked with development and humanitarian policies, including setting up humanitarian corridors and delivering humanitarian visas, as well as other external policies; takes note of the operation of the European Union Naval Force – Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR Med) against smugglers and traffickers in the Mediterranean; also stresses the urgent need to develop stronger policies at Union level in order to deal with the pressing issues related to migrants and refugees and find an effective, fair and sustainable mechanism for burden-sharing among Member States; highlights the measures proposed by the Commission on 9 September 2015 to address the refugee crisis, such as the foreseen revision of the Dublin regulation;

23. Calls for a comprehensive and integrated European approach to migration; emphasises that the region faces serious migration challenges and deplores all the tragedies in the Mediterranean; urges that in tackling these challenges a significant shift in asylum policies in terms of solidarity among Member States is essential; highlights the need to look at the overall strategy on cooperation with third countries; regrets the insufficient cooperation among EU Member States with regard to migratory challenges; encourages the exchange of good practices in receiving migrants and calls, as a matter of urgency, for special attention to be ...[+++] paid to the social and humanitarian issues affecting the region, with a view to a possible redefinition of the EUSAIR priorities in the future;

The risk committee shall advise the management body on the institution's overall current and future risk appetite and strategy and assist the management body in overseeing the implementation of that strategy by senior management.

5. Stresses that journalists and the media play a leading role in creating a European public sphere which enables citizens to participate in European integration; stresses the importance of a comprehensive EU strategy for communication in order to bring increased legitimacy to the Union and to strengthen the European citizenship; expresses concern, therefore, at the fact that the Commission has discarded its own pan-European media networks strategy by closing down its initiative of a pan-European TV network; urges the Commission to set up the intended TV network as soon as possible and to come up with a comprehensive strategy for comm ...[+++]unication in order to bring increased legitimacy to the Union and to strengthen the European public sphere; and strongly asks the Commission to reconsider the actual operation of Parliament's initiative on cross-border investigative journalism so as to safeguard its independent and impartial implementation and to better clarify its position on the future perspectives for the pan-European media networks strategy;

43. Stresses that the EU cannot achieve the goals to be set in a 2020 strategy without a broader and more comprehensive external policy, bringing together the Common Foreign and Security Policy, trade, development, and cooperation policies, so as to turn globalisation from a source of downward pressure on environmental and social standards into a global instrument for their advancement; points to the new provisions of the Lisbon Treaty concerning coordination of EU external policy, which will help to contribute to this new comprehens ...[+++]ive strategy and should be used as a means of promoting policy coherence for development (PCD);

– (PT) If we think about the importance to Europe of a global strategy taking advantage of the sea’s potential, and if we think about the economic strength that tourism can and does bring to European economies, and if we add to these thoughts the need to respond not only to the concerns raised by the relocation of various businesses, but also to the challenges posed by the current economic crisis, it is easy to understand the importance of a specific strategy for tourism in coastal zones, within the framework of global strategies for tourism and for ...[+++] the sea.