Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-07-Speech-4-038"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-02-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Illiteracy and social exclusion2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020207.3.4-038"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-02-07-Speech-4-0392
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlo Fatuzzo2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partito Pensionati (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"I would like to start by congratulating Mrs Hermange on this important document, which I support, and to wish Commissioner Diamantopoulou every success in her work. This is the first time I have had the pleasure of seeing her this year and I am sure she will be just as successful in her work in the second part of the legislature as she was during the first two and a half years. I feel that this document is extremely important, and it is crucial that Mrs Hermange has stressed that illiteracy does not just mean not knowing how to read and write, but not understanding discussions and being unable to move about in modern society, where it is not enough to know how to read and write but where a certain culture and are necessary for a person to have any status. In some States of the European Union, this form of illiteracy is as high as 30 to 35%. I would therefore stress the importance of resolving this issue. There is another Commission document on the issue, which has been referred to the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport – on that famous subject ‘lifelong learning’ – but this is a question of learning not the languages of other States but our own. Well then, I am concerned by what happens as a result of this kind of illiteracy during elections. Voters who are illiterate in this way do not know what or whom they are voting for when they go to the ballots and they do not understand the programmes. This means that democracy is diminished. Pensioners, I must say, know exactly which way to vote when they go to the ballots, but we must be sure that everyone understands why and for whom they are voting."@en1
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