local development initiative

I believe that the local development initiatives must be of overriding importance.

In addition, with the support of the Commission, we are organizing a presidency conference on local development initiatives in Dublin in November during our presidency.

What this means is that local development initiatives must obtain ESF and ERDF funds if they really are to be able to combat unemployment.

This is an area affected by questions of security and we have so far received no response from the Algerian Government, for reasons that are clearly understandable, on how to implement these local development initiatives.

In particular, we support the conclusions of our colleagues from the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs that more money must be allocated to new sources of employment, including the cooperative sector, environmental projects and local development initiatives.