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The EU is doing a great deal in order to involve a young generation in projects intended to link European unity and ideas about progress. These projects may end up verging on being propaganda rather than education. In channelling money to cultural organisations that propagate 'the European idea' by pursuing a general European interest, the EU’s objective is to create a more uniform European elite. In the worst-case scenario, the EU will eventually evolve into a power centre, with the power ending up in the hands of a Europe-wide English-speaking elite, putting anyone who does not speak this language at home or has an insufficient command of it at a disadvantage at work, and in terms of their ability to participate, and have a say, in politics. Deviating national and regional customs are then treated as a form of handicap. That is why it is positive that we should now finally set to defending cultural diversity against commerce and centralistic governance. I completely share the view of Mrs Prets, the rapporteur, that cultural services and products, and certainly the diversity of opinions, are not consumer goods capable of simply being handed over to the market. I support her ambition to exclude everything that pertains to this from trade liberalisation by WTO/GATT and to have it protected by a convention to be concluded in the framework of UNESCO."@en1
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