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"Mr President, I also commend the report and thank Mrs Gröner for the excellent effort she has made. It is a very good report. Youth is the sector in our Community that is so often ignored. Indeed in the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport it is the “Cinderella” sector of funding, as with sport. We hope that imbalance will be redressed.
The insufficient commitment to youth affairs from the Council, when the European Parliament was calling for EUR 980 million, shows, in my view, this grave disparity and the lack of commitment on the part of the Council to a very important sector.
The danger, in this regard, with the changes that are proposed, of combining two programmes – Youth for Europe and the European Voluntary Service – is that several good parts of both those programmes might be lost. I hope that does not happen. We should include the best parts of those excellent initiatives in whatever programme we formulate in future.
The new Youth Programme emphasises the developing links with the youth of entrant countries. That is an excellent initiative. The bridges built between youth will be the bridges that eventually unite Europe.
The agreement to constantly review the situation is an initiative that I welcome. When more funds are needed, budgets should not be cast in stone but be flexible so that they can be amended in the best interests of the deserving needs of youth. What more deserving cause could there be than supporting youth in the European Union."@en1
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