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". – Mr President, at this hour of the night I should not venture to make a statement. I would just like very much to thank the Members of the House for the views they have expressed and very briefly to address two or three questions that were raised.
First, we are committed to the strategy of having common houses between the Commission and Parliament. At the end of next month we will provide Parliament with a report on the state of play as far as creating those common houses are concerned. We will have, on that occasion, the opportunity to discuss the issue that Mr Andreasen has raised.
As far as television is concerned, according to our polls 64% of European citizens recognise that whatever they know about the European Union comes from television. That is why we have launched a common invitation to tender for an audiovisual strategy to cover the issues concerning enlargement and the future of Europe. We are pursuing the feasibility study on the Europe channel. We have been in close contact with the services of the European Parliament and we are also following the evolution of the European audiovisual public sector, including the situation of Euronews, to have an overall picture and a better assessment of what we can do in the audiovisual sector, including television, to provide more information to the citizens.
Finally, as Mr Karas said, the strategy cannot be developed just by the central institutions of the European Union. The challenge ahead of us is to build a partnership with the Member States, with regional and local authorities, to promote information about the Union. That partnership requires mutual confidence and a change in the culture of communication.
Of course, as you have said, if Europe is made the scapegoat for everything that goes wrong, it will be extremely difficult to portray what we do in a positive light. But at the end of the day I hope that Member States will understand that if they carry on with such a strategy, sooner or later, when they have to ask for the consent of citizens for the European project, they will be the first victims to fall to the ground.
Therefore I hope that this strategy will improve step by step. I am optimistic because, for the first time, the Council has engaged in close interinstitutional cooperation with Parliament and the Commission to develop information and communication strategies on the most important subjects. That partnership, which is on a voluntary basis, will start producing concrete results. Those Member States that produce concrete results will be the guiding light for the others to follow. We will succeed."@en1
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