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"Mr President, I apologise for being late, but on the screen it was shown as being ten minutes later. I will give my presentation in Hungarian.
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is an honour for me to be the rapporteur for the report on modernising Europe’s higher education systems. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the members of the Committee on Culture and Education, as well as its expert and advisory groups, the shadow rapporteurs of the various Groups, the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, and all my dear colleagues, as well as the Committee of the Regions, the European University Association, and the various student representations who contributed to this report through considerable professional efforts, a constructive attitude and close cooperation.
One of the reasons why the task of rapporteur is important and represents a special challenge to me is that I come from a region of Central and Eastern Europe, and a country that recently acceded to the European Union, that is, Romania, where totalitarian dictatorship had placed barriers before the development of a system of higher educational institutions in the democratic sense, had showed gross disregard for the autonomy of universities, and had degraded the whole of educational policy to a stage and an instrument of social and political oppression. Bearing all this in mind, we can rightly and legitimately conclude that former communist countries that acceded to the EU have a twofold stake in the transformation and modernisation of higher education. To them it represents both a continuation of the democratic change of regime started in 1989 and of the fight against the crisis inherited from the past, and a process of catching up with the developed Western European Member States of the EU in the framework of the European Higher Education Area.
The 180 motions for amendment tabled for the draft report are another indication that in these times, when a complex crisis is afflicting our continent, the modernisation of the higher education system of Europe can be considered a call of the age. Accordingly, through the modernisation of higher education systems the report seeks to address the extraordinary challenges posed, among other factors, by the general economic crisis, the constraint of budgetary deficit, the increased rate of unemployment or the demographic crisis that continues to mount. Higher education is a common European value. Its reform is possible only in the context of a simultaneous involvement of EU, Member State and regional levels, taking account of the fact that higher education could play a key role in promoting social inclusion.
The report calls on higher education institutions to join efforts with each other and with their external partners, local governments, civil organisations and business sector participants to provide all social groups, including deprived people, with the possibility of pursuing studies in higher education. In this context the EU and Parliament also use this as an opportunity to take action against any form of discrimination and to stand up for the fundamental values of cultural and linguistic diversity. Accordingly, the report encourages Member States to pay special attention and provide financial support to higher education institutions serving national, ethnic and linguistic minorities. I will skip a part.
Let me conclude my presentation by mentioning young people, who hold the key to our future. It is well known that in some Member States, especially in the societies of post-communist countries, there is an extremely high rate of youth unemployment. We hope that this report and the relevant EU policy and measures will, together with the Berlinguer report adopted in March, deliver a significant contribution to ensuring that European youth can have access to worthy employment opportunities and be able to make a living in accordance with the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy."@en1
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