Examples of using Direct aid in English and their translations into Czech
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This is a step forward, but direct aid from the West is still ruled out.
I also want to send out a clear message and to answer Mr Kelly's question about direct aid.
The majority agreed to reduce direct aid by only 6% for 2009 and 2010.
The direct aid that could be put in is miniscule compared to what the need actually is.
One example is the watering down of the changes to direct aid for rural development.
However, experience has shown that decoupling direct aid from agricultural production has harmful effects: hence our vote against the motion for a resolution.
Subsidies which continue to be paid to agriculture should be given in the form of direct aid entirely decoupled from production.
There should instead be direct aid measures for the developing countries engaged in dismantling, greatly multiplying the environmental and social benefits.
This kind of aid is, in our opinion, better and more effective than direct aid whereby funds are applied without discretion.
However, in order to continue to be able to carry out their activities, our farmers are asking us to provide greater safeguards against price volatility andto keep allocating direct aid.
The income security which it collects in the form of direct aid is inadequate for a decent standard of living in absolute terms.
For example, direct aid will no longer simply be based on a premium per hectare, but the size of the farm, employment arrangements, labour productivity and legal form will also be taken into consideration at long last.
Perhaps it is a kind of echo of former colonialism, orthat they are accustomed to receiving direct aid, and so to receiving a kind of charity.
These penalties reduce direct aid and cut specific rural development measures, especially payments for the Natura 2000 regions as well as agri-environmental payments.
The respirator, now the EU, each year gives millions of euros in direct aid and intervention to European sugar growers.
It is also worth noting that the Court of Auditors has pointed out that under the common agricultural policy, the Single Payment Scheme has given rise to a significant increase in the number of hectares andbeneficiaries receiving direct aid.
Let me stress that several Member States currently use the possibility to couple part of the direct aid to environment objectives to support protein crops.
We have retained two strong pillars:the first pillar, direct aid, needs adequate funding that reflects the challenges facing agriculture, which means at least maintaining current financing levels.
In accordance with the principle of European solidarity, efforts must be made to end poverty and guarantee'direct aid' for the countries of the Western Balkans too.
My solution to this problem is therefore as follows:place the focus on direct aid for the reconstruction following the floods and take immediate action instead of losing in the negotiations in Geneva.
I can only repeat that theeradication of poverty and the achievement of the MDGs cannot happen solely through direct aid for the health and education sectors.
Direct aid must be guaranteed to farmers and a policy of managing agricultural markets must be restored to bring about greater price stability, which would benefit not only farmers but also consumers and third countries.
The Commission's new proposals are divorcing aid from production and transferring direct aid resources for farmers to the second pillar, to the benefit mainly of businessmen.
As regards Romania and Bulgaria, during the accession negotiations for these Member States, a phasing-in system- in other words, a system for progressively increasing direct aid- was provided for by the treaty.
Despite this, Regulation(EC)No 1782/2003 provides that from 2010 50% of Pillar I resources(direct aid) will be transferred to Pillar II(rural development), thereby significantly reducing the income of these producers.
They are waiting because this is not a simple review, but will lead to profound changes, such as the disappearance of many holdings,if the cuts in direct aid proposed by the European Commission go ahead.
Thirdly, I am against the minimum thresholds for granting direct aid proposed by the Commission, whereby the Commission says that anyone receiving less than EUR 250 a year or cultivating less than one hectare a year should not be financed.
However, we have to take into consideration the fact that almost 95% of the money is returned to the citizens of Europe in the form of direct aid, for example, via the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund.
The proposal also means a transfer of money from direct aid for agricultural production to rural development, with the focus on the four prioritised areas of climate change, renewable energy, water management and biodiversity.
I am firmly convinced andconscious of the fact that market management mechanisms must be able to play a role alongside direct aid, which we must keep, albeit by adapting the criteria for awarding them.