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"Mr President, may I first say that Mrs de Sarnez has done an excellent job.
This is also – and I think that everyone would agree – an excellent initiative, which, I must confess, is among those that are closest to my heart. It seeks to make European higher education more attractive throughout the world and also here, in Europe; it seeks to enhance its quality, thanks to the European Masters’ courses, which will link several universities from different countries on our continent and which will be open to students and academics initially from here at home and later from the whole world, on the basis of the award of scholarships.
We are at the second reading stage and I can tell you, Mrs de Sarnez, that the Commission can accept all seven of the amendments in the draft recommendation. In addition, I should like to congratulate Parliament and the Council on their efforts to reach a consensus – an important consensus, because it will enable us to accelerate the procedure and launch the programme as planned in 2004.
As I have already said, the Commission fully endorses this consensus. It respects the substance of the proposal and it includes a budgetary allocation of EUR 230 million, which is worthy of a PHARE programme. This allocation is also in line with the budgetary programming prepared by the Commission with a view to enlargement.
The Commission can accept Amendment No 5 on the budget; Amendment No 1 clarifying the scope of the notion of higher education; Amendment No 2 referring to the new generation of programmes; Amendments Nos 3 and 6 about the requirement of quality to be met by 'Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses', and Amendments Nos 4 and 7 on linguistic diversity, which is very dear to our hearts.
I should like to say to Mrs de Sarnez and the Members of this House that wherever I go, in the Europe of Fifteen or in the new countries, and even outside Europe, everyone agrees that Erasmus Mundus is a magnificent initiative and everyone has high hopes of it. I am sure that it will contribute to greater convergence of our higher education systems and that it will have a major impact on how attractive they are to the rest of the world.
Erasmus Mundus has the potential to become both a benchmark of European academic excellence and a vector for dialogue between peoples. I would like to thank Parliament very warmly for its cooperation from the very beginning to the very end of this process. I think that we have set up a marvellous programme. It will be up to the academics, students and teachers to really make it work."@en1
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