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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this debate is very important because, in fact, it raises the fundamental issue of the coherence of the European Union’s various instruments. It shows clearly that we can imagine the most innovative of policies possible, but when the budgetary machine is established, it is one-eyed.
Mrs Bayona de Perogordo highlighted this. The assessment of all of us, since there is impressive unanimity on this point, is that we must compensate for the democratic deficit between us and the public. To a lesser extent, we should also compensate for the deficit as regards internal communication and information.
I am a product of adult education and am convinced that knowledge and information are the key instruments of active and responsible citizenship, so I can only welcome the excellent work carried out by the Info-Points Europe. They are educational, they are innovative, they have a remarkable capacity for initiative and, above all, they enable us to raise awareness of Europe and to spread Europe’s messages to its citizens of all ages, all areas, and all cultures with a proximity that cannot be matched and that other institutions fail to match.
I would also like to point out that it is because we provide a financial contribution that this is possible. In fact, we call on other powers to carry out this communication role for us. These other powers are local powers that are sensitive to the European question, naturally, but that might, if we do not make more effort, wish to return to their initial role and perhaps abandon this vital aspect.
If the support we are going to be guaranteed for 2004 gave us the time to conceive arrangements for collaboration that enabled this system to continue on a permanent basis, that would indeed be effective. It would also enable us, since the other partners also have budgetary contingencies, to continue to operate and to make plans for the coming years. It would be insane to abandon these proposals at the risk of losing transparency and, thus, European democracy. I believe that the solutions are simple: administrative simplification, respect for work and, what is perhaps also necessary, an audit."@en1
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