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"This report is extensive and details many different issues relating to volunteering. We greatly value volunteering and, without downplaying its importance and potential, we do not entirely agree with the perspective presented on volunteering, essentially what it implies in terms of the state’s decreased responsibility for and neglect of the role of public policy in a wide range of areas. Certain risks that the concept of volunteering will be distorted or subverted are not properly addressed. Volunteering cannot, under any circumstances, be used to justify or legitimise situations involving decreased state responsibility, such as teaching that is lacking or deficient in schools, or to extort free work from young people, adults or older people. Nonetheless, we are pleased that almost all the amendments tabled by our group have been accepted. It is important to address problems experienced by volunteers and by NGOs promoting volunteering, in particular, difficulties with funding, bureaucracy, and a lack of recognition for activities carried out. The report has some good paragraphs on increasing funding for associations, communities and others. However, we would distance ourselves from proposals like the European Statute for Associations, under the terms set out here."@en1
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