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"Madam President, last year with the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport, I had the opportunity to visit Cracow in Poland. We learned a great deal from that visit, not least that the applicant countries will make a tremendous contribution to the cultural life and vitality of Europe.
We asked a question of one of the professors at the Cultural Institute in Cracow: Is there a distinctive European culture The reply summed it up neatly: He said he often visited America, and clearly we share a western culture with the United States, but nonetheless when he went there was something missing and that was the historic environment. He said that in city like Cracow you can see, touch, feel history and culture all around. I can certainly see why as a citizen of that city he made that point. So I endorse Mr Graça Moura's comment that it was regrettable that the historic environment was not included in the forum on cultural cooperation last year. We must never neglect the historic environment in all our countries.
I simply endorse the rapporteurs call to include our Mediterranean neighbours, our Islamic neighbours; we must cooperate with the Islamic countries. In particular we must remember that Europe today is a multicultural society. We must rejoice in that and we must make sure that our programme contains significant elements to deal with that.
There has been comment today, some of them fair criticisms, about difficulties in administration, but I want to cite a success story. I was delighted in my own constituency of Portsmouth that a grant of EUR 150 000 was given to a consortium of museums, including Portsmouth's D-Day Museum, dedicated to peace across Europe. That is a project that certainly has been very successful and they are delighted to have received European support. We must monitor projects very carefully. That is one I am sure that will pass with flying colours. If we want more money for culture in Europe, let us think seriously about a European lottery to get the money for it."@en1
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