9. Stresses that the transfer of clean-energy technology to developing countries is central to tackling climate change and meeting the Millennium Development Goals; notes that at the 2005 Gleneagles summit, G8 leaders recognised the need for greater international co-operation and coordination of research and development of energy technologies; notes further that, at the same time, the Heads of Government of Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, China and India issued a joint statement with a view to building a new paradigm for international cooperation in the future, including improved participation in RD, international funding for technology transfer, and a concerted effort to address issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR); cal ...[+++]ls on the Commission to address IPR-related barriers to the acquisition of existing proprietary clean-energy technology through dialogue on the basis of further work analysing how international funds and public-private initiatives have fostered technology transfer covered by IPRs in other fields; calls on the Commission to explore the potential for new kinds of global public-private-partnerships in technologies to tackle climate change, drawing experience from international agreements to support IPR access to anti-retroviral drugs for developing countries.

5. considers it crucial to promote the cross-border dimension of cohesion policy giving more emphasis to the INTERREG programme in the internal cohesion policy ; at the external borders of the enlarged Union, PHARE, TACIS and INTERREG programmes should be used effectively in order to improve economic and political stability, to protect the environment and to reduce immigration pressures;

Let me continue the quote: The use of replacement workers undermines the structural elements that ensure the internal cohesion of the collective bargaining system by introducing a foreign body into a dispute between two clearly identified parties.

Let me continue that quote for just a moment: The use of replacement workers undermines the structural elements that ensure the internal cohesion of the collective bargaining system by introducing a foreign body into a dispute between two clearly identified parties.

It was not an externally imposed understanding but an internally shared understanding between the members of families.

Despite significant progress during the past two years, the current negotiation process is plagued by a lack of internal government policy and process cohesion.