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Mr President, I am glad that there is such interest in sport and football. Much of my week has been taken up with discussing it, including yesterday in Parliament’s committee. Today I should have been in The Hague with the Council presidency and the ministers for sport. I hope to be there tomorrow for the closing event of the European Year of Education through Sport 2004. So, sport is currently getting a lot of attention, and much action is being taken that could result in some answers to the questions heard here today. This will surely bring more value and political weight to debates about sport in the European Union and also to developments surrounding cooperation.
Mr Karas said that self-regulation is better. That is true, but the rule of law is a founding principle of the Union, and we have to abide by all the rules, including Community law, national law, both
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. This includes employment legislation, because in sport and in football there are different dimensions to activities.
The educational and social value of sport, and football in particular, is reflected in many positions of the Commission and in Parliament. You will remember the Helsinki report and the Nice Declaration on Sport in 2000. We then came up with the idea of making 2004 the Year of Education through Sport. I am sure that we will evaluate experiences, especially as the year draws to a close. As I said, the closing ceremony will take place tomorrow. I hope to come back soon with some evaluations and proposals.
For the future, the draft Constitution gives us a much wider legal basis for activities. Once it is ratified, we will work on European sport policy. Until then we have some time to prepare. We want to start
open consultations, mostly based on workshops but also via the Internet to ensure we have the widest possible audience.
Probably the most sensitive question was the idea on quotas …"@en1
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