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"Madam President, Commissioner, I would firstly like to congratulate the rapporteur, our colleague, Mrs Gutiérrez-Cortines, because I believe she is the most suitable person to be rapporteur for this report on universities and higher education, and she has demonstrated her great experience in this field.
I would like to focus on sport. In Europe it is very difficult to combine studies with sport and this means that our young people eventually have to choose between the two. We parents naturally try to have an influence on this choice and we encourage them to chose studies instead of sport, since they seem to us to offer more security.
In other countries, such as the United States, sport and university studies are entirely compatible. And not only are they compatible, but a North American student actually has access to many more universities and opportunities thanks to sport than they would without it.
The European Union must promote sport in universities, both inside and outside the university itself. We must promote the participation of university teams in competitions between universities (regional, national, international, etc.) and perhaps – and why not? – we could apply part of the Erasmus programme, which is having great success, to providing mobility for university sports teams, as enjoyed by other students.
We must not forget that young people who divide their time between studies and sport are not left with much energy and time to indulge in other activities which we would all consider less advisable."@en1
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