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07-11-2012, 02:20 PM
During a visit to the European Parliament in Brussels yesterday, 10 July, President Leonel Fernandez called on European lawmakers to refocus the global economy, giving priority to jobs and economic growth.
"In the short term, there is clearly a need to implement policies aimed at increasing growth and employment, without losing the perspective of giving way to sober, responsible and sustainable fiscal policies," he said. He expressed his concern that actions be taken to avoid a second wave of recession that he feels will be much more dangerous and harmful than the first one.
Speaking in Brussels, last on his 10-day European tour, he pointed to the Dominican Republic's push for regional integration in the Caribbean, highlighting the role of the biannual Latin American and the Caribbean-European Union Business Summit (CELAC) for improving bi-regional commercial relations and investments and of building a strategic alliance for the sustainable development between Europe and the region. The next summit will be held in 2013.
The EU and the Latin American and Caribbean region should strengthen their ties, he said, something he called a "fundamental key in the 21st century."
On the last day of his European tour, Fernandez headed an extraordinary session of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EUROLAT) together with Jose Ignacio Salafranca Sanchez Neyra, the president of EUROLAT and European deputy.
At the meeting, Fernandez said that Latin America has to keep making progress towards a scheme of regional integration, similar to the European Union.
President Fernandez is scheduled to return at 7:30pm this evening.
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"In the short term, there is clearly a need to implement policies aimed at increasing growth and employment, without losing the perspective of giving way to sober, responsible and sustainable fiscal policies," he said. He expressed his concern that actions be taken to avoid a second wave of recession that he feels will be much more dangerous and harmful than the first one.
Speaking in Brussels, last on his 10-day European tour, he pointed to the Dominican Republic's push for regional integration in the Caribbean, highlighting the role of the biannual Latin American and the Caribbean-European Union Business Summit (CELAC) for improving bi-regional commercial relations and investments and of building a strategic alliance for the sustainable development between Europe and the region. The next summit will be held in 2013.
The EU and the Latin American and Caribbean region should strengthen their ties, he said, something he called a "fundamental key in the 21st century."
On the last day of his European tour, Fernandez headed an extraordinary session of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EUROLAT) together with Jose Ignacio Salafranca Sanchez Neyra, the president of EUROLAT and European deputy.
At the meeting, Fernandez said that Latin America has to keep making progress towards a scheme of regional integration, similar to the European Union.
President Fernandez is scheduled to return at 7:30pm this evening.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)