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lpv:document identification number	"en.20030408.10.2-302"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Theresa Zabell2
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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would firstly like to congratulate the rapporteur, my friend and colleague, Juan José Bayona, on his work and his good ideas in this report, and also the Commissioner, Mr Vitorino, on his initiative. When we talk about Europe, it reminds me a bit of school, where we always said ‘I have passed’ or ‘they have failed me’. Here, when something goes well, it is the country or region that claims all the credit, but when something goes badly, or there is a disaster, Europe is usually blamed. When they say, ‘it is Europe's fault’, the citizens do not even know which institution they are referring to, because in reality they do not know them, and they cannot distinguish between them. We must acknowledge that we have not made it at all easy for them. There may be languages in which it is not so difficult, but in Spanish we have the [European Commission] and the [committees] of Parliament, the [Council of Europe] and the [European Council]. We know that they are completely different things, but the public in general does not know, and we must acknowledge that these coincidences or similarities are very unfortunate. That is why I believe that this report on the European Union's information strategies and subsequent implementation of the programmes are so important and vital to the citizens of the Union. Please allow me now to relate this issue to my field; the field of sport. We must not forget that sport is a great instrument for communication and has a genuinely important multiplying effect. If we in this Parliament support the inclusion of an article referring to sport in the new Treaties of the European Union, we may have sport programmes which have a great impact, and this would benefit all of us. Furthermore, if we bear in mind that the essential thing is to educate and inform young people, who will be the real protagonists of the European Union within a few years and who will be its future, and that it is they who sporting information can mostly reach, we would truly be completing a circle which would be of the greatest interest and benefit in terms of the image of all the institutions of the European Union."@en1
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