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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I want first of all to say a big thank you to the European Parliament, and, above all, to Mrs Martens and the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport, for the support, points of view and proposals to which the debate on this report has given rise.
Following Lisbon, and as part of the implementation of the strategy established there, we have given new impetus to European cooperation in the field of education. The result is positive, because the Council and Parliament are agreed on this issue.
We have agreed on the following common objectives: firstly, increasing the quality of our education systems; secondly, facilitating the access of all to education and training systems; and thirdly, opening up education systems to the world.
Despite the fact that this involves some very complicated work, the finishing touches are now being put to a detailed work programme of the kind requested by the European Council in Stockholm. The proposal will be discussed at the Council meeting on 14 February. It specifies the most important points in terms of achieving the objectives laid down and, with the help of the open coordination method, identifies how it will be possible to measure progress. Upon request, the tools used must not only compare the different EU countries with one another but also be used for the purposes of comparison with other high-achieving countries.
The views and proposals put forward by Mrs Martens in her report will, as far as possible, be taken into account in preparing the final document. The Commission is entirely in agreement with Parliament about the two-fold objectives of education, namely to promote personal development through helping people gain the skills which will be of use to them throughout their lives, and to lay the foundations required if young people are to be integrated into society and the labour market. Reporting on the objectives and the detailed work programme will take account of these issues, which are interrelated.
The President of the Commission, Mr Prodi, recently expressed the view that education, training and research are the keys to economic renewal, sustainable development and new jobs. A knowledge-based society cannot be created without knowledge. These different aspects therefore need to complement one another. A prerequisite of being able to achieve such a situation is that we work together. The work in pursuit of common objectives has only just begun. In the future too, we shall have the opportunity to work more with Parliament and other EU institutions, as well as with international organisations such as the OECD and the Council of Europe. Together, we must obviously also ensure that the candidate countries are involved in the cooperation process, and preparations for all this will be made before the next meeting of the European Council in Barcelona. Specifically, we shall have the opportunity of working with all these countries in Bratislava in June at the meeting of the 36 Education Ministers. In conclusion, I want to thank you for this debate and for your attention."@en1
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