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"The Erasmus World programme 2004-2008 is a positive initiative since it aims to strengthen the position of European universities at international level. In an environment where competition is, in this field too, ruthless, everyone will understand that it is essential to direct all our energies to preventing the brain drain to the United States.
Having said that, this objective would not exempt the European institutions from their obligations in the field of education. Therefore, given that Article 149 of the EC Treaty stresses the ‘responsibility of the Member States for the content of teaching and the organisation of education systems and their cultural and linguistic diversity’, the integrity of the guiding academic principles, starting with the academic neutrality of teaching and the independence of teachers, must absolutely be guaranteed.
We must avoid negative trends, rightly condemned by a group of many French university professors at the Jean Bodin University Monitoring Centre, in certain Community education programmes, particularly the Jean Monnet Chairs; in spite of their obvious educational value, the latter sometimes fulfil an ideological propaganda function that is no less obvious, a function naturally incompatible with the normal performance of teachers’ tasks.
Erasmus World must not be the new Trojan horse of European federalism in the teaching profession."@en1
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