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Mr President, I will be no exception in this debate in congratulating our rapporteur on this ambitious report, and I welcome also the Commission’s ideas tonight, which, I believe, demonstrate a unity of purpose between our two institutions.
I have a vested interest in this debate: Scotland, as an English-speaking EU member nation, should be – could be – leading the audiovisual sector within Europe in building a bridge to our competitors in the US. Sadly, while ample means of support exists on the EU side, this area remains a cruelly untapped potential for Scotland, as for Europe. Fortunately, the solutions are at our hands.
I believe there is broad agreement in this chamber tonight on the broad policy thrusts, though, for me, the key policy areas are digitisation and distribution, and how the EU side can facilitate internal EU dissemination of our own talent.
Sadly, however, I suspect that, ultimately, the arguments will come down to money and the mean-spirited arguments put forward by my own UK Government. I hope colleagues will unite around this report and send as loud and as clear a message to the Council as we can."@en1
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