Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-04-13-Speech-4-264"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20000413.10.4-264"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Kathleen Van Brempt2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2000-02-02--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-01-19--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2000-01-19--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (2000-01-13--2003-09-28)3 member; PES (2000-01-13--2003-09-28)3
lpv:translated text	"I am pleased with the report by Mr Graça Moura, the rapporteur, and I am grateful to him that my amendments have been adopted. In the frame of this European Year, most of the amendments aim to establish closer cooperation with the Member States at all levels of policy, not only at national level but also at regional and even local policy level. An essential requirement for this is that the Member States earmark sufficient funds to set up activities that can then be cofinanced by the European Union. If not, the European Year of Languages is likely to remain a PR exercise, just a lot of hot air. The second aim of my amendments was by means of the activities set up in the context of this European Year to pay special attention to socially vulnerable groups, migrants and semi-skilled and unskilled workers. This is something very close to my heart: learning to have an active command of foreign languages should not become the umpteenth barrier to the integration of this target group, a privilege for the already privileged members of our society. Foreign language learning is indeed the key to integration. A third series of amendments that I have tabled concerns the availability of language courses and accessibility to them in the respective Member States. It is an open secret that this situation differs greatly from one Member State to another. Smaller Member States with a correspondingly small language area must make much greater effort, whereas in the larger Member States and larger language areas respectively the economic incentive is not so great. The Member States are therefore inherently asymmetrical in this regard. I hope that the Council will endorse this initiative and that we shall be able to start the specific activities as soon as possible, because there is a lot to be done."@en1
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