Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-04-07-Speech-1-082"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-04-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The Erasmus World programme (2004-2008)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030407.6.1-082"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-04-07-Speech-1-0832
lpv:speaker	lp:Maria Johanna (Marieke) Sanders-ten Holte2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2003-09-03)3 unknown; Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, although I wonder whether it is really so important whether the programme proposed by the Commission should be called Erasmus World or Erasmus Mundus, I would like to thank Mrs De Sarnez for her thorough report. The Commission's proposal has come at exactly the right time. Europe wants to become the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, so it is good that it is emerging as a continent in which the standard of university education is high, so that it is worthwhile for foreign students to come and study here. Promoting mutual cooperation can only benefit the universities. Although some parties in my country are suggesting that it is not really necessary to learn two foreign languages, I would like once again to emphatically express my support for the European Parliament's proposal to give third-country students the opportunity to learn the languages of two host countries via this programme. You only have to look round in this Parliament to see how necessary that is. A knowledge of languages not only helps graduates to be more competitive in the labour market, it also increases their cultural stock-in trade. I would, however, like to make a comment about this report. The programme is intended for students and universities all over the world, and I would like to urge that we pay extra attention to universities in the developing world. Education is the best weapon in the fight against poverty. By giving students from the developing world the opportunity to complete their knowledge in the European Union, we can contribute to the distribution of knowledge in their own countries. We must, of course, ensure that they do not stay in Europe, because the programme is not intended to boost the brain drain. If European universities are prepared to work together with universities from the developing world, that will be sufficient reason for students to want to return to their own countries and to pass on the knowledge that they have acquired to their compatriots. In this way, we can, via this programme, make a significant contribution to improving the standard of living everywhere, including the developing world."@en1

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