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"Madam President, the European Union wants to become the most competitive economy in the world. In order to achieve this, we must invest in our future, and in my opinion, our young people and their education are our future. It is said that whoever wants something looks for reasons, and whoever does not want something looks for ways to avoid finding reasons.
In my opinion, the European Union is currently looking for reasons to say why we cannot put more funding into education, and we are often very fond of pointing out that we have a crisis and must deal with its consequences. As we are now discussing the next seven-year period in the EU and future funding and budgets, I think we should be asking an unambiguous question: how much do we intend to invest in education and in our future? We also certainly need to hear what the Council and the Commission want to do in this area.
Likewise, we cannot, of course, tolerate what is happening in some Member States, which are transferring funding from education into other areas, as is taking place in my own country, for example. In my opinion, this is not right. We must also realise that investing in the future is the only way to achieve what we really want to achieve."@en1
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