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"There is a saying: ‘What we don’t know, we fear.’ This applies also to familiarity with the European Union and its institutions.
Yesterday we debated the future of Europe 60 years after the war. The majority of speakers emphasised in different ways that Europe’s greatest achievements since the war have been preserving peace, reconciliation among nations, cooperation and acceptance of our diversity. Yet this peace is not a self-evident thing, and we will also need to strive for it in the future.
Democracy is a highly challenging assignment, which allows a person great freedom. And for that reason it is all the more important to have good, effective and objective information, so that we might more easily make correct and intelligent decisions.
I welcome the appeal to European Union institutions for an improvement in the conditions for accredited journalists and the working relations with them, since the high costs mean that particularly newspaper and television houses in smaller countries cannot afford direct coverage and reporting from the sessions of its institutions or training for their journalists so they might have a greater familiarity with the working of the European Union.
On Spring Day in Europe this year I participated in a number of fascinating events organised in Slovenian schools. Students together with teachers had prepared cultural programmes, exhibitions and round tables. At these meetings I gained the feeling that young people are ultimately interested in what we do in the European Parliament, how you can obtain employment in European Union institutions, what jurisdiction the EU has, and what the constitution will mean.
I therefore welcome the proposal that Member States include in their education programmes a familiarisation with European institutions, since no information can be effective if we do not have appropriate prior knowledge of a given topic. There also needs to be a reworking of the ‘Europa’ website, so that all the official languages will indeed become equal."@en1
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