Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-01-Speech-1-094"
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"Mr President, the arguments being expounded are not contradictory; they are informed by a spirit of pluralism and I trust that Mr Lamy, who is here in the House, will see them as such. We all love the cinema, which has had the best possible advocate in the European Parliament in the person of Mr Vander Taelen. I hope we shall not lose touch and that we shall meet him regularly in his new position and continue to work together as well as we have in the past.
The cinema, the seventh and most recent addition to the arts, has always combined art and industry, quality and mass appeal and has educated entire generations of Europeans. However, we also know that, as things now stand, it is being suffocated by American blockbusters. So far, Parliament and the European Union have taken political decisions to support cinematographic and audiovisual works, but more needs to be done and the Vander Taelen report quite rightly proposes legislative and fiscal measures in this direction, as well as looking at research and archives. However, we are coming up to three crucial milestones: 2004, when decisions will be taken on state aid, 2005 for negotiations within the World Trade Organisation and an undetermined date, which keeps receding ever further into the future, for revising the Television without Frontiers directive. But before we reach these milestones, we need to explore every avenue and use all our political inventiveness to save European cinema and audiovisual works. Luckas Vander Taelen has done so and deserves our congratulations. We should not leave his initiative hanging in mid air and we therefore hope that the Commission will respond to it as specifically as possible."@en1
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