Considers that the Union should fully assume the responsibility incumbent on it as the world’s leading donor of development aid, and turn its political potential to better effect, further developing its leading role at international level on development issues, particularly by spreading the principles of good governance and training local actors, and by making resolute use of the powers conferred on it by Article 210 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to take every appropriate initiative to foster the ...[+++]coordination of the development cooperation policies of the EU and its Member States and to synchronise their aid programmes;

37. Considers that the Union should fully assume the responsibility incumbent on it as the world’s leading donor of development aid, and turn its political potential to better effect, further developing its leading role at international level on development issues, particularly by spreading the principles of good governance and training local actors, and by making resolute use of the powers conferred on it by Article 210 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to take every appropriate initiative to f ...[+++]oster the coordination of the development cooperation policies of the EU and its Member States and to synchronise their aid programmes;

- to improve the rural economy and promote diversification to enable local actors to unlock their potential and to optimize the use of additional local resources.

But it also stressed the need to act in five key areas: promoting demographic renewal in Europe, by creating the conditions for our fellow citizens to fulfil their desire to have children, in particular, by helping to reconcile work and family and private life; promoting employment in Europe, by ensuring that more and better jobs are created and people can work longer, in order to improve the balance between active and inactive people; promoting a more productive and more dynamic Europe, by optimising skills at all ages; taking in and integrating migrants into Europe, by attracting skilled and unskilled workers from a ...[+++]broad and facilitating their integration in order to alleviate labour shortages; ensuring the sustainability of public finances, by consolidating budgets and reforming social protection systems in order to guarantee adequate social protection and public services in the future.

Recycling and recovery targets are used in several EU Waste Directives.

The proposed directive lays down essential requirements and provides for the adoption of harmonised standards with a view to making the use of new intermodal loading units (containers or swap bodies) more efficient and safer, and creating a European intermodal loading unit (freight-carrying unit for use in Europe).