Examples of using External aid in English and their translations into Czech
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Like what? External aid, refugee program?
The Government has issued new'guidelines' for external aid.
This will help reduce dependence on external aid and boost domestic economic growth.
It has simply increased the dependency of the states in question on external aid.
Then there is external aid, development and enlargement; the whole package of funds that we channel to the United Nations.
I would like to say I am very concerned about the European Union external aid budget.
For external aid and internal policies, such as transport and energy, as well as education and citizenship, the Court does note improvements.
Our focus will be on the forthcoming 2008 discharge procedure for the structural funds and external aid.
In this regard the concept of ownership, of taking control of one's own destiny andnot depending exclusively on external aid, lies politically- and I may say philosophically- behind these partnership agreements.
There are some areas which are in a better position according to the classification of the Court of Auditors,for example external aid.
If the EU wants these policies and programmes to be efficient,then it must continue modernising its external aid and include the EDF within the Community budget from 2009.
For all these reasons, these Economic Partnership Agreements should be seen as a great opportunity, particularly for all those of us who believe that the development andgrowth of these countries cannot depend solely on external aid.
A case currently investigated by OLAF and closed in the last quarter of 2003, involving external aid, is in judicial follow-up in Germany.
There are more than 5 000 external aid positions in the delegations and more than 2 000 in the Directorate General for External Relations and in the development aid department in Brussels.
In these situations, the rigid formulation of the DCI instruments may make the action financed by external aid extremely difficult.
For the policy groups Cohesion, Research,energy and transport and External aid, development and enlargement, the Court continues to give adverse opinions concluding that they are affected by material error, although to different levels.
They give an adverse opinion on 43% of the budget, the part that relates to cohesion funds, research,energy and transport, external aid, development and enlargement.
Payments for External aid, development and enlargement also continue to be materially affected by errors, with weaknesses in systems for external aid and development assistance mainly at the level of the implementing bodies and delegations.
It also shows that it is precisely this control that helps highlight the failings, waste andabuses in the management of structural funds and external aid, or at least some of them.
For'agriculture and natural resources','cohesion','research,energy and transport','external aid, development and enlargement', and'education and citizenship' the Court concludes that payments are still materially affected by errors, although to different degrees.
First of all, in particular, too many material errors are occurring in the areas of agriculture, the Cohesion Fund,research and development, external aid, development cooperation and education.
It is much more about handling the EU's external aid carefully, promptly and as effectively as possible, as well as about detailed documentation and accountability, since it is annoying when projects are not completed on time or there is a lack of clarity about their outcome.
The fact that the Court of Auditors has established that error rates are in decline is therefore praise for the work of the previous Commission in external aid, in development cooperation and in enlargement policy.
However, we also know, of course, that external aid is only in a better position because it is not possible to control the budget aid and because the use of the funds, for example, via the United Nations, merits complaints by the relevant Director General, but not even a reserve in his annual report.
Therefore, they are the ones I am addressing again today when I say that it is precisely because we want to relay our demands even further that this House must have its say inthe EU's strategy and general guidelines for external aid.
In other policy areas- agriculture,the environment, external aid, development and enlargement, research, energy and transport, education and citizenship- the error rate(I use the word'error') was between 2% and 5% and the auditors observed that there was a'disproportionately'(that is their word) large error rate for rural development, which now represents 20% of farm spending and is increasing.
The existence of efficient, transparent and equitable tax systems is crucial for the advancement of developing countries, in that they contribute to the financing of their public assets, the sustainability of their institutions,their reduced dependency on external aid and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
I believe that the development of a genuine regional and intraregional market in these countries is important in order tocreate the conditions for sustainable growth that is not wholly dependent on external aid: however, this agreement does not generate the necessary prerequisites for this to happen, given that in many cases the measures planned foresee very little involvement of the authorities and the local private sector.
Nevertheless, I believe that in addition to helping the most disadvantaged and all those who are affected by these disasters, it is also necessary to provide the poorest countries, and therefore those that are most vulnerable to this type of situation,with human resources and funding so that external aid is not so critical.
Integration of the African social economy into the EU programme can result in a strengthening of cooperation with international organisations such as the International Labour Organisation andthe World Bank, and can also lead to greater support from European public opinion for strengthening EU external aid by greater involvement of the major players of the European social economy.