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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, having spoken yesterday evening on European citizenship, I am pleased to be able to speak this morning, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the matter of the European area of education and learning. The link is clear, and was, furthermore, emphasised by the Feira European Council, where it was stated that ‘education and lifelong learning are an essential policy for the development of citizenship’.
Ladies and gentlemen, as everyone has said, education and learning must be accessible to everyone so that everyone has the same opportunities to find their place in society. As we know, however, we are a long way from achieving this objective. Inequalities become clear as soon as children enter the educational system, and are responsible for many academic failures, before breeding social exclusion in later life. This is a downward spiral and hence the vital importance of adopting a coordinated strategy at European level which provides access for every European citizen to a decent and sufficient minimum standard of education and of learning. The Commission communication attempts to respond to this ambitious project. Several proposals are, furthermore, of the greatest interest, even if they would benefit from being clarified and complemented by the provisions contained in Mrs Van Brempt’s report, on which we are about to vote.
We welcome the fact that the Commission is advocating the right of every citizen, including those who have left school early, to acquire basic skills via free compensatory learning in later life. We also support the idea that the Commission should, working closely with the Member States, put in place a European framework to define the basic skills that all pupils have to have acquired. With regard to training, I support the request for the Commission to implement clear strategies with adequate funding for the chapter concerning lifelong learning.
Finally, in order to create a European area of education, equal opportunities in the field of education and training must be guaranteed for everyone, in particular for women, through close cooperation between all the social actors concerned.
Furthermore, the integration programmes designed for immigrants should exist even for pre-school pupils.
I shall finish by very warmly congratulating Mrs Van Brempt on her work and her report and by pointing out that education and lifelong learning are not only a social necessity but a major social right too."@en1
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