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"Can I take this opportunity to welcome the programme in the context of the five-year strategic plan. I particularly wanted to congratulate President Prodi on emphasising the issue of governance in the overall planning process.
last week was rather scathing about the importance that was attached to this issue, but we have a huge challenge ahead in attacking the institutional architecture that we need to create for the 21st century – an architecture that has to be commensurate with our responsibilities and our position in the world. The outbursts in Seattle and Davos for instance were not just about the issues – they were very much about a populace and a citizenry trying to engage with a new set of institutions and being not quite sure of how to do so. Therefore, opening up the invisible cities of decision-making in Europe to the citizenry is absolutely vital.
Can I welcome the annual programme in particular because there was one omission from the five-year plan. That was the whole area of education, youth and culture which did not make an appearance at all. The volume of programmes dedicated to this in the annual programme lends a suitable importance to those areas because they can provide us with the solid basis that we will need in order to be able to face the challenges we are now presented with.
In moulding a greater Europe we have a significant challenge, but mobility in Europe – student mobility for instance – is still very low. Only 2% outside the old Erasmus programme of students are actually mobile in Europe, which is not something upon which we can build a new economy at all. We are entering the new technological age, and again can I congratulate the Commission and also the Portuguese Presidency on the work that it has done to usher in the technological and informational age. Again, we need a programme of education that matches the best practice across the whole of Europe. We cannot develop a whole series of initiatives based on, for instance, small businesses or health on-line or whatever without educating people to be literate in those technologies. This means perhaps looking again at all our educational programmes to see that they match the programmes we are particularly enthusiastic about.
Can I just, in finishing, say that we will have started four new programmes by the end of this year – Media, Culture 2000, Youth and Socrates. I hope that we will evaluate the work that was done in the previous programmes to ensure that these are not just another new layer but are actually a new beginning for the programmes that can present us with an educated European citizenry."@en1
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