Cost Recovery and Client Fee Policy

FSD Policy Development and Implementation [ Foreign Service Directives Policy Development and Implementation ]

21. Calls for the external dimension of EU policies to be enhanced through an intensified policy dialogue and cooperation on education and training between the Union and its international partners and neighbouring countries to reflect the increasing economic, social and political interdependencies and to contribute to the implementation of the external dimension of Europe 2020, to support stability, prosperity, and better employment opportunities for our partner countries’ citizens ...[+++] while developing better instruments for managing and facilitating skilled migration to Europe to balance skill shortages and gaps that are the result of demographic developments in Europe;

27. Calls for the external dimension of EU policies to be enhanced through an intensified policy dialogue and through cooperation on education and training between the Union and its international partners and neighbouring countries, aiming to (a) reflect the increasing economic, social and political interdependencies, (b) contribute to the implementation of the external dimension of Europe 2020, and (c) support stability, prosperity and better employment opportunities for our partner countries’ ...[+++]citizens, all the while developing better instruments for managing and facilitating skilled migration to Europe, thereby balancing skill shortages and gaps that are the result of demographic developments in Europe;

110. Reiterates its deep concern at the chronic underfinancing and particularly acute flexibility problems in the implementation of the Union's external activities, due to the unpredictable nature of external events, and recurring international crises and emergencies; stresses, accordingly, the need to close the gap between its ambitions and resources in foreign policy, by ensuring adequate financial resources and efficient flexibility mechanisms in order to enable the Union to respond to global challenges and unforeseen events; reiterates its request that budgetary implications ...[+++] deriving from any new commitments and tasks taken up by the Union must be additional to programmed amounts, in order to avoid jeopardising existing priorities;

109. Reiterates its deep concern at the chronic underfinancing and particularly acute flexibility problems in the implementation of the Union’s external activities, due to the unpredictable nature of external events, and recurring international crises and emergencies; stresses, accordingly, the need to close the gap between its ambitions and resources in foreign policy, by ensuring adequate financial resources and efficient flexibility mechanisms in order to enable the Union to respond to global challenges and unforeseen events; reiterates its request that budgetary implications ...[+++] deriving from any new commitments and tasks taken up by the Union must be additional to programmed amounts, in order to avoid jeopardising existing priorities;