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"Mr President, Commissioner, I have been elected to the European Parliament as leader of the Italian Pensioners’ Party. An hour ago, someone in my Group said: “Fatuzzo, you must have bumped your head – you are from the Pensioners’ Party and are speaking about the youth programme!”. Yes, two days ago I did indeed have a slight accident, but that is not why I am talking about the youth programme. I am speaking about it because I want people to know that in Italy, the Pensioners’ Party and the pensioners – and I think all Europe’s elderly people too – agree with this youth programme, and are in favour of young people meeting each other, learning languages, going from Ireland to Italy, to Portugal, to Finland. This programme is extremely important because it brings Europe to young people. However, I also tried replacing the word “young” with “elderly” in the programme we are discussing today and I saw a wonderful project appearing, which would be worthwhile too, because it is true, as Mr Taylor said, that this is the first generation who have a European identity and, as Mrs Gröner said, that the future of Europe starts with the young. But the elderly who constructed Europe – do we think about them sometimes? Well, I am taking the adoption of this youth programme as a starting point to say: “Build, let us build together a programme for cultural exchange among the elderly too!”. Maybe we will not spend a billion in seven years, given the age of the elderly, but seven billion in one year. It is not very much, but it certainly is positive."@en1
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