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"Mr President, on a lighter note, it is traditional for Parliament’s spring part-sessions to be pleasantly besieged by schoolchildren, by groups of pupils and students from all over Europe. It is the season for organised school trips. However, not everybody is equally able to take advantage of this great opportunity which we could be offering to all our European young people: indeed, the pupils and students from the furthest, outermost regions cannot come for reasons of money, because of the costs involved. Up until a few years ago, Parliament gave tangible assistance and funding to schools and schoolchildren throughout Europe, but then, in order to save money, this funding was stopped. I have looked into the matter briefly and discovered that some funding is given to the Regions – to the regional authorities – but that it is up to the Regions how they administer it. It does not seem right, Mr President, that schoolchildren who come from far away should not have the same opportunity as those who live nearer to come and see how we work and what we do, as they would have had in the past. I feel that, out of all the money we might spend on groups of visitors, the money spent on young people is, without a doubt, the most important and such as to warrant a small financial sacrifice too."@en1
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