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Mr President, I too would like to acknowledge what an interesting debate we have had on racism, but first and foremost I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on his work, not only on this report, but also for his endeavours in the negotiations with the Council. I am very pleased that Parliament has been able to increase the level of funding from the initial EUR 135 million offered by the Council to what we are looking at now: EUR 149 million. It is particularly important that we have managed to secure, as the rapporteur stated, EUR 55.6 million before the end of this financial perspective.
As the rapporteur for the initial eContent report, I am very encouraged to see this sort of proposal on eContent Plus taking shape so quickly. Digital content in this era is one of the fastest growing areas. Without an equally rapid response from Europe we could continue to be left behind and we really have to maximise the opportunities arising in this area in order to challenge some of the dominance that the United States has managed to secure. With ever-rising private ownership, there is a lot more we could do, so I particularly welcome this proposal.
There are many opportunities for us to do more given the huge diversity of languages we have with 25 Member States. The eContent Plus Programme should now make a significant impact on all the media, as has been said by the Commissioner and others, in terms of books, public sector information and the media in general. But one of the problems we face within the EU is the variety of industries, from textiles to telecommunications, that are fragmenting our national markets. That variety faces us with even more challenges in terms of coordination and ensuring we remain competitive.
We need to ensure that we can guarantee safety of information for highway users because that is one of the issues. It impedes various people from using the Internet to its fullest and we need to do more to spread this culture of information. We need to do more to expand the EU websites, not just to give all EU citizens access to their representatives, but also to reduce their frustrations."@en1
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