From the Single Act to Maastricht and Beyond: The Means to Match Our Ambitions |
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achieve ACP countries ACQUIS COMMUNAUTAIRE adjustment administrative expenditure adopted allocated basis borrowing/lending operations budgetary discipline Central and Eastern coherence Cohesion Fund Commission common agricultural policy Community action Community budget convergence coordination decisions development cooperation development is lagging Eastern Europe Economic and Monetary economic and social economic growth effectiveness ensure environmental European Investment Bank European Monetary European Monetary System European Social Fund external action financial framework financial perspective financial resources greater implementation improve increase industrial change infrastructure innovations institutions instruments Interinstitutional Agreement job creation joint financing least prosperous regions Maastricht European Council Member mobility Monetary Union Objective 5a overall Parliament principle priorities procedures promote qualified majority qualified majority voting regions whose development reserve resources ceiling responsibilities role rural development Single Act single market social cohesion social dimension structural Funds structural operations structural policies subsidiarity trans-European networks Treaty unemployment VAT base vocational training