Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-04-Speech-2-281"
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"We are free people, free societies, and it is an invitation to be reasonable in this freedom. I said that investment into human potential is the best.
I am not against investing in modern infrastructure, in transport and in the environment, which is important. But even in the communication I mentioned in my introductory answer, we say – and this is based on scientific evidence – that investment in pre-school attainment of children from a poor socioeconomic background is the most efficient way of dealing with their worsened conditions for cohesion. The rate of return into education at pre-school age, for example, is higher than the rate of return from investing the same amounts in the longer term in financial institutions.
So, that said, this is an invitation for ministers and Members to behave like reasonable fathers and mothers and to think about future generations, not just about tomorrow, the immediate future or polls in the next elections. I think that this kind of generational, long-term approach is highly needed and very efficient even in financial terms, but sometimes we just behave according to short-term, even narrow-minded approaches.
Europe is full of examples; it is a mosaic, and some Member States show examples that are now a world reference. Look at the PISA study, and I invite you to look at the next study, which will be published by the OECD in September. We will see where we are after three years and some European countries are amongst the best performers in the world. We need such performers, and we need more of them."@en1
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