Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-03-Speech-2-066"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, I shall adopt a technical approach, but please also allow me to make some more general comments. The Europe of the future must become a land of exchange, of meetings and mixing. What could be more important than knowing our neighbours, their culture and their language? In any case, that is what we say every morning. For fifty years, we have been building a multicultural Europe, not a one-sided Europe. Our Europe, that melting pot of cultures, languages and people, is possible thanks to free movement and study programmes. Furthermore, we would like to build a Europe based on knowledge and lifelong learning. However, a knowledge-based Europe can only exist through exchanges, in particular exchanges with third countries. As the Nobel Prize-winner Octavio Paz so rightly wrote, ‘every culture is born of mixing, meeting and confrontation; quite the opposite, it is isolation that destroys civilisations’.
Thanks to Mrs Roure’s excellent report, we have the privilege of enabling young people from all over the world to come to this old Europe of ours in order to learn a language, study, or hone and share their knowledge. As Mrs Roure so clearly pointed out, knowledge-sharing is a source of enrichment both for immigrants and for countries of origin and host countries. By allowing easier, more homogenous access for students, researchers and volunteers, we are also allowing Europe and our fellow citizens to enrich and share their knowledge and experiences. We cannot, therefore, close our doors to all these people who wish to learn, share and understand. All the conditions must be met in order to allow third-country nationals to come to Europe to train or hone their knowledge, because knowledge is the only thing that increases when shared."@en1
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