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"Madam President, it might be opportune to recall that the arts and languages of the various European countries were providing tangible evidence of mankind’s genius long before the Commission came into being. Fostering such abundance is indeed one of the Commission’s less controversial duties. The Gröner report is on the right lines. However, there are grounds for criticising the programmes we are debating today for two different sets of reasons.
The first of these is of a technical nature and is also contained in the various reports before us today. It concerns the programmes’ lack of transparency and their unwieldy nature. The application documents have driven everyone who sent for them to distraction. Maybe the documents are, in fact, some new form of art the Commission is nurturing. The main effect of streamlining procedures would be to do away with subsidies to intermediary bodies. These bodies aim to help artists and students to benefit from the much vaunted European funds but some of them are actually chaired by Members of the House. I have no wish to make any false assumptions. Nonetheless, blurring responsibilities in this way is most undesirable.
The second set of critical comments is of a political nature and concerns the thinly disguised intention of using these programmes as a basis to develop propaganda aimed at turning the younger citizens of our Member States into an a-national sub-species of ‘homo-europeus’."@en1
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