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". – Mr President, first I want to express my gratitude for this question. I have today been able to witness a discussion about
Europe which is really one of the top initiatives of the Commission at the moment. The question of how much Community funding we can channel into this programme was discussed in preparing the draft action plan which was presented to the Council and Parliament two weeks ago. So far we have decided that the Commission will try to reallocate existing funds as far as possible to e-Europe priorities.
For my part, that includes particularly the Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Development, especially information science and technology programmes and TED/Telecom. They are particular actions which specifically try to strengthen the networks between research centres and regions in Europe which we want to finance from the research budget. On the other hand, with the Commissioner responsible for structural funds we have drawn the attention of the Member Countries and the regions to the fact that information projects should be given high priority in those areas. I wrote a letter with Mr Barnier to all regions of Europe on that issue. We emphasised that in the knowledge-based society, investments in the infrastructure of
Europe are totally essential to guarantee the growth of jobs and also to have more efficient policies of cohesion because the digital economy information society means the death of distance. So if the infrastructure is there, the importance of distance will be less.
Outside this issue, it is very much a question of the Member States. What we want to do there is to agree at the European level on the objectives, in particular how to connect schools, how to increase the literacy of young people because the Internet comes to homes through children. There the question is how to make this essential issue a priority for the Member States. We are trying to combine efforts at the European level and the national level so that they will reinforce each other and so that Europe can really become a fully competitive information society and, at the same time, an information society which includes everyone."@en1
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