Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-09-Speech-2-276"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-03-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Education and training and Active citizenship2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040309.11.2-276"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-09-Speech-2-2772
lpv:speaker	lp:Michel Rocard2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"First of all, allow me to congratulate you, Commissioner Reding. In fact, in this period of gloom after the intergovernmental conference, this House does not often shake with enthusiasm. You have given us the opportunity to do so, which is a pleasure to hear. I have many questions, but I will put four of them to you. Three of them are concerned with what you have just said and one strays slightly from an issue that you dealt with, but it concerns our problems. My first question is this: could you be a little more explicit about what you just quickly touched upon as regards quadrupling the budget? Over what period? On what basis? Is this about the whole budget for culture, youth and the media? What news! We are starting with such a small amount. All the same, we would like to know a little more. My second question concerns languages. We know each other well, Commissioner Reding, and I admire the enthusiasm and the spirit with which you defend language initiation programmes and take on the defence of minority languages. In this context, it is the Council that is delaying. Will the Commissioner, in support of the programmes that she has just described, be prepared to go back to the idea that the Council must manage to put pressure on the Member States to make it compulsory to teach at least two modern languages? Furthermore, according to linguists, it would be preferable for one of these two languages to be outside of the linguistic family of the mother tongue. In this way, Europe would become multilingual and not dependent on our jargon that is similar to English. My third question concerns the cinema. It was a pleasure to listen to you on this point, Commissioner Reding. On the issue of promoting cultural diversity and defending it in the area of cinema, however, you did not mention this unsuccessful text that was – it seems to me – drawn up by the Internal Market Directorate General. In the name of protecting competition, it claimed to harmonise, but in fact it is to remove or completely change all our structures for helping cinema and that worries us all. In our opinion, this reasoning was stupid, but we would like to hear it from your own lips. My fourth question is a point of application. It concerns what you said on the issue of European high culture. You spoke about Bruges and Florence. I have just learnt that in Florence, following an international agreement fixing the budget of this institution, the notification sent to it was cut back by the Commission Secretary General by 20% compared with the sum agreed on and adopted by this Parliament, which is sovereign in Europe."@en1

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