Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-13-Speech-1-114"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-05-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2004, European Year of Education through Sport2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020513.10.1-114"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-05-13-Speech-1-1152
lpv:speaker	lp:Theresa Zabell2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would firstly like to congratulate the rapporteur on her excellent work and also the Commission on having been able to overcome the obstacles it always faces so that this Parliament can address issues relating to sport. I would like to emphasise two points on the reasons why I think this report is so important. Firstly, I think that we should not forget that sport is a great educational tool. People have always talked about the qualities of sport – that it teaches us to value striving to succeed, or that it brings people together, for example. A million things I do not intend repeating right now. However, what I do want to say – and if I may be so bold I would like to say I have some experience in this field – is that young people, especially children, do not usually, or would find it difficult, to forget what they have learnt through playing whilst practising sport. Sport has a great educational role in a wide range of fields, especially in areas such as the environment. This is just one of the many areas that can benefit from education through sport. The second point I would like to emphasise is that we should not forget that we are living in a Europe in which differences based on race and culture are growing every day, and that we all have to make an effort to integrate into the European Union. Sport plays a fundamental role in this integration. This would be difficult to achieve with any tool other than sport, and any attempt to do so would entail enormous costs. I hope that 2004, European Year of Education through Sport, will be the driving force we all need to be able to ensure the inclusion in the Treaty of an article that makes specific reference to sport, and for this programme to be the starting point, and only the starting point, of what sport can achieve in the European Union."@en1

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