Therefore, the European Training Foundation is an extremely important agency.

The role of the European Training Foundation will therefore be essential.

That is why I voted for the report on the European Training Foundation.

The amendment to the regulation on the European Training Foundation is justified and necessary.

The work of the European Training Foundation in Turin should be stepped up.

I also want to thank the representatives of the European Training Foundation for their input, an important contribution providing many further links.

There is a need for cooperation between Cedefop and the European Training Foundation.

All deficiencies must be overcome in order to achieve greater transparency and to eliminate any uncertainty concerning the work of the European Training Foundation.

I would like to look briefly at the European Training Foundation (ETF).

If we try to put all that together in a European Training Foundation it would drain the life out of the training schemes in many countries.

European Training Foundation (recast) (debate)

Established in 1990, operational since 1994, the European Training Foundation is located in Turin, Italy.

For example, the European Training Foundation and Cedefop, although both working on vocational education and training, have different geographical scope.

The European Training Foundation must prepare adequately for covering MEDA countries.

In European Training Foundation (Ed.)

I fully share his opinion concerning the extended geographical mandate of the European Training Foundation (ETF).

I endorsed this document, because the Committee responsible decided to approve the closure of the accounts of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2009.

I believe it was Mr Clark who said the Commission was exceeding its competences and that the European Training Foundation could be counterproductive.

Each of the agencies - Eurofund, OSHA, the European Training Foundation and Cedefop - has a specific role to play.

We asked CEDEFOP for verification of how cooperation with the European Training Foundation in Turin could be improved.

As you know, the European Training Foundation was created in 1990 to support implementation of the PHARE external assistance programme in the field of vocational training.

To date, the Council has issued guidelines concerning measures by the European Training Foundation for the countries of central and eastern Europe but not for the associated Mediterranean countries.

In collaboration with the European Training Foundation (ETF), a thematic forum devoted to third countries was held in the premises of the European Parliament in December 2009.

The European Training Foundation can be useful as a tool in helping to implement essential partnerships and will provide the new programmes and the formal frameworks for EU aid to candidate countries.

I really believe that it was their intention to transfer the East European Training Foundation - who were temporary tenants of CEDEFOP in Berlin - to Thessaloniki.

The reason is technology and new investment products such as exchange-traded funds.

Exchange-traded funds, first launched 21 years ago, were a great idea.

But exchange-traded funds may not be suitable for all investors.

We started thinking about exchange-traded funds in the late "90s, way before most people had heard of them.

Platinum also got support from growing investment into exchange-traded funds.

"Very few people care about exotic financial instruments like exchange-traded funds."

Specialists in exchange-traded funds expect demand for these issues to be strong.

She might do just as well with lower-fee exchange-traded funds.

Exchange-traded funds are increasingly the most popular method of gold investment.

First, it would be wrong to confuse these for exchange-traded funds anyway.

Some of that has shifted to other stock vehicles, such as exchange-traded funds.

Investors can also track the market with low-cost exchange-traded funds.

The simplicity of exchange-traded funds has made them wildly popular.

The traditional way around this problem is an exchange-traded fund designed to match an index.

The exchange-traded fund community happens to be no stranger to such temptation.

As I declared in my previous column, exchange-traded funds are not perfect.

Competition for the listing of exchange-traded funds may be heating up.

Demand for the precious metal to back exchange-traded funds is also firm.

Buying of gold-backed exchange-traded funds in particular is very strong.

Much of the increased demand comes from exchange-traded funds.

Are exchange-traded funds the financial wave of the future?

The markets might be slumping, but sales of exchange-traded funds are not.

Investors have also been rushing to sell silver held through exchange-traded funds.

What is the difference between a traditional fund and an exchange-traded fund?

Betting against the market has become increasingly easy with the advent of exchange-traded funds.

There are two ways to look at an ETF, after all.

Our proposal does not provide for any new ETF activities.

What is the most significant recent trend in the ETF world?

The ETF's activities are described in our annual work programme.

With the ETF market, however, there is no such limit.

And just as with a stock, you must pay a commission to buy an ETF.

The answer is that the tax treatment depends on the ETF.

Investors shouldn't judge an ETF based on such a short time period.

For a long time, the fund was the largest ETF in the world.

We offer advice about how to choose the right ETF.

The programme highlights an interesting development in the ETF market.

"They are not going to launch an ETF in this space."

With an ETF, you can trade it throughout the trading day.

Especially since its ETF plans seem to have been put on ice — (for now at least).

You may well do better by investing in a regular ETF.

The full report will soon be published on the ETF website.

Why it suddenly pays to own the natural gas ETF.

Since the beginning of the year, the gold ETF has fallen about 14 percent.

What’s more, every ETF structure comes with it’s own unique set of issues.

But the market is the fastest growing for ETF providers.

This helped the ETF options market to become more efficient.

Trade an ETF when the market for its underlying assets is open.

In both cases, the ETF units act as a means for real price discovery.

"They won’t change the track on which the ETF is moving.

There are many of our investors who might not have bought gold ETF.