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Mr President, Mr McCreevy, ladies and gentlemen, the issue raised by Mrs Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou in the report we are considering is of the utmost social significance. I congratulate the rapporteur on her very thorough approach, which highlights the countless implications of this issue: the family and educational projects, the fall in the birth rate, housing policy for young couples, the Lisbon Strategy objectives and lifelong learning, with the starting-point that education is a human right and there is a need for investment in human resources, as a tool to strengthen social inclusion.
Tellingly, Parliament is tackling this report in the European Year of Equal Opportunities. The need to reconcile family life and work, although recognised by the European institutions and the Commission, which even adopted it as a basic principle in its recent administrative reform, has not so far produced effective, concrete action, as we might have expected it to. Such action might – and we hope that it will in the future – have triggered better awareness by the Member States and thus led to policies that are attentive and responsive to the needs of young people and young mothers and designed to achieve an equality that is not just empty words but is properly promoted.
Of the instruments proposed by the rapporteur as useful starting points for national decision-makers, I consider particularly effective the flexible study programmes, for example part-time courses, greater use of learning techniques derived from new technologies, tax concessions for young working students, study grants for students with family responsibilities as well as easier access to nursery schools and after-school facilities. Finally, I endorse the proposal to encourage the exchange of best practice with regard to support for students, by looking at the experiments successfully tried in some Nordic countries."@en1
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