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"Questions Nos 14, 15 and 16 will be taken together at the request of the Council, although initially they appear to be different questions.
Currently, the EU Presidency is rotated between Member States according to a formula agreed by the European Council. Given the imminent launch of a new IGC, this would seem an appropriate time to reconsider the formula.
The UK Conservatives in the European Parliament believe Member States that hold the presidency should set a strong example in their transposal of EU legislation into national law and in complying with EU legislation once it is in force.
Will the Council therefore add to the agenda of the IGC discussion of a mechanism to ensure that a Member State can only hold the presidency if it demonstrably shows sufficient respect for EU law?
In particular, will the Council comment on the suggestion that any Member State in the bottom half of a 'league table' for both transposal of directives and for cases pending before the Court of Justice, should be barred from holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union?
Question No 14 by Ioannis Marinos ():
Europe is basically a cultural concept, and the European Union will be able to maintain its special position and influence worldwide only if it accords basic priority to its cultural dimension by linking it closely to the economic dimension. It is regrettable that there is insufficient awareness of this and of the fact that culture is a major economic asset. This is the reason why only very scant funding is allocated to this field, funding which the Council and the Commission are cutting back as far as possible. The same is unfortunately happening to another major economic asset, namely sport. If, however, the right approach were taken to sport, it could make an impressive contribution towards tackling the key problem facing the EU, namely unemployment, and very significant additional sources of revenue could be secured from the exploitation of sport internationally. Because it has adopted such an approach, the USA now dominates the international music and entertainment industries and thereby influences the ideas, choices and education of the younger generation in particular.
Does the Council intend at the forthcoming Intergovernmental Conference to recognise culture as a major economic asset and to accord it the priority it deserves?
Question No 15 by Camilo Nogueira Román ():
With a view to the Intergovernmental Conference, will the Council introduce a European employment policy endowed with the necessary concentrated funding, bearing in mind that official EU statistics show that there is now a direct link between unemployment and low per capita income?
Question No 16 by Philip Bushill-Matthews ():"@en1
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"Subject: European Culture"1
"Subject: European employment policy"1
"Subject: Presidency of the Council"1
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