The programme aims to create around 18,500 new jobs, to safeguard 6,500 existing jobs, and to support 9,500 firms. This money will pay for measures destined at promoting enterprise and innovation, in order to create a favourable environment for investment and sustainable rural communities. I pay tribute to negotiators on both sides for their constructive and understanding approach. As a result EU spirits such as whisky will no longer be discrimated against in the Chilean market. The bigger the group, the more limited its decision-making powers become.
Legitimacy is undermined in the absence of effectiveness.
The European Union will lose its moral basis if it cannot reach decisions. He also refers to the shifting balance of influence between Member States and the creation of different coalitions on different issues. The particular challenges of the coming years, he suggests, will be delivering the Lisbon agenda to make Europe the most competitive economy within ten years, enlargement of the EU, a clear definition of EU foreign and security policy and a European policy on asylum-seekers and immigration. The European Commissioner for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, Mr Poul Nielson, is paying a working visit to the United Nations in New York 25-26 January. Mr Nielson will use this opportunity to call for improvement and development of the UN-EC partnership so as to make the fight against global poverty more effective.