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I fully agree with the content of this report, because I believe it improves the text proposed by the Commission and, mainly, because it focuses on a type of initiative that is becoming increasingly crucial and important, such as the ‘Erasmus’ programme. Today’s global society requires us continually to improve our preparation for the challenges that face us. In addition to opening up within the Union, European university education must therefore also open up to the world of third countries, thereby contributing to establishing European universities as centres of excellence for higher education. This latter objective will also provide a major boost to the European universities themselves which will thereby gain visibility.
Nevertheless, opening up to countries outside the Union must not diminish the Erasmus programme’s extension, expansion and encouragement for Europeans too. In fact, we must make further efforts to ensure that the programme can be a real option for everyone and indeed, why should it not become a normal part of university education in Europe? We must also develop measures to encourage the positive effects of this type of programme, without allowing their increase in number to lead to a fall in quality."@en1
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