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NATO's leadership of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has been a unique mission, and its success requires a focus on three priority areas: continued ISAF expansion; increased assistance to security sector reform, including the training of Afghan security forces; and improved coordination between NATO/ISAF and other international organizations and missions working in Afghanistan. ISAF has expanded its mission from Kabul to the north and the west and is poised to move to the south and eventually the east of Afghanistan, an area less stable requiring a more robust approach.

In this paper we evaluate the influence of the modification of public investment level and unemployment rate on the general government deficit at the European Union level. We create a regression model that shows that a sustained and increased investment policy and the reduction of unemployment rate have a favorable effect on the objective of minimizing the budget deficit. In the last years European Union's countries had to face a difficult problem concerning fiscal policy. They have to make public investments to stimulate economic growth and in the same time they have to meet the convergence criteria's of public deficit. On the other hand, EU has to deal with a higher rate of unemployment. Through our model we try to see how European Union countries should implement their political strategies on unemployment and investment with the main objective of reducing the general government deficit.