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"Mr President, I should like to start by offering the Commissioner my warmest congratulations on her initiative on a European Union study into the specific challenges facing its youth of today, on consultations with young people and on a new cooperation strategy which views young people as the basic resource and source of strength for progress and development in the European Union.
The White Paper really does give all us politicians, at both European and national level, the opportunity to take stock of our responsibility in the light of this objective. If we are honest with ourselves, then we have to admit that we have neither the frame of mind nor the practices needed for our young people to prepare to become proactive citizens in their national and local societies and tomorrow's responsible European citizens. It is true that continuing unemployment and the social problems which come with it, often poor standards of education and teaching and insecurity about the future disappoint and alienate youth from the rest of society. At the same time, however, as studies have shown, they want new social relations and new forms of intervention. The rapporteur has taken the right approach here, for which she has our warmest thanks.
At the same time, few countries have the structures or institutional framework needed to allow young people to play a specific and fundamental role in society. The Member States of the European Union have differing experiences in this area as a result of differing administrative and regional structures and political traditions and promoting best practices will be one hundred per cent beneficial here. But at European level, Commissioner, we should be giving the youth of Europe a better chance to get acquainted, cooperate, support each other and prepare their common future.
Despite the range of European student exchange programmes, for example, there are huge discrepancies between education systems. When it comes to recognising diplomas, there are universities which prefer to throw up obstacles to students from other Member States of the European Union than to accept them and bring them into contact with their own student circles. Be daring in your initiatives, Commissioner, the European Parliament is right behind you."@en1
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