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"Mr President, all the statistics show that the number of children and adolescents drinking has reached alarming levels over the past decade. So I congratulate the Commission on this welcome initiative and the rapporteur, Mrs Stihler, for strengthening and improving the Commission's recommendation.
Children and young people are drinking alcohol more frequently and starting not only to drink but to get drunk at an ever younger age. In Wales, my own constituency, half of all fifteen-year-olds drink beer every week. While I would usually be the first to welcome equality between the sexes, in this case we can only regret that over the past decade the number of girls drinking excessively has almost equalled that of boys in nearly every Member State.
Young people, as was said earlier, must be able to make their own informed decisions about alcohol. The report refers to the importance of involving young people themselves in the campaign to prevent alcohol abuse, so that the right, positive images and the right messages are used, which will reach young people and which will have an influence on them. We must stop the deliberate targeting of alcohol products at young people. We must have effective labelling and advertising of the dangers of alcohol, but also readily available information for young people, parents and all those involved in youth work to promote healthy living. In this way we may be able to stem the increasing prevalence of alcohol, which can be so destructive in the lives of young people."@en1
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