Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-26-Speech-3-167"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20050126.9.3-167"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:translated text |
".
Mr President, Commissioner Reding, ladies and gentlemen, I too have been deeply moved by the debate we have just had. What I have to say is that these things must be nipped in the bud. We often hear people expressing hatred of the European Union too, and of democracy in Europe, and I think we need to make a start soon on educating and informing them and making Europe’s people more aware of Europe’s values.
Where
Government is concerned, the European Union – the Commission, Parliament, and the Council – should set an example. We need not only to have the very latest and most up-to-date hardware and software; I see ‘best practice’ as something that begins at home. We should show that there are governments in Europe that are perfectly capable of showing us, at European level, in what direction we could develop. In the area of
health, there is much that we could do in terms of prevention and analysis. In the
learning sphere, we can present a great deal of knowledge using ‘learning entertainment’, so that teachers in schools can at last have access to exciting and interesting materials.
This is where, at European level in particular, we can support our 20 languages and Europe’s cultural diversity. The infrastructure that we will need in future will also enable us to see this Europe of ours in a new light. We need to be fascinated by Europe and to love it.
That is why we attach particular importance to this ‘
Content Plus’ programme, which is intended to get high-quality content onto global networks. Presenting Europe on global networks is something we see as having a strategic advantage in that global networks can be accessed directly and immediately and in that we can thereby exploit the opportunities offered in a worldwide context.
I think that our achieving, at second reading, funding for the programme to the tune of EUR 149 million for the period up to 2008 offers a considerable opportunity to make significant improvements to this European content on digital networks. We have also set aside EUR 55.6 million for the period up to the end of 2006.
In the past, or so I believe, this programme has already shown its capacity for making us more competitive, thus acting in support of the Lisbon objectives, and we are now seeing a vast number of new jobs being created in the information and communication technology sector. If we want to create another 10 million jobs by 2010, ‘content’
must be a core element in the strategy for achieving the Lisbon criteria. We face the major challenge of putting Europe on the Net and focusing particular attention on it and its small and medium-sized enterprises. Agencies for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises have come into being, and they should also devise new business models for the digital content.
Having seen the Internet hyped, we are now entering the next stage of its expansion, and this is where the Commission has done exemplary work. I would like to extend very warm thanks to all those who have played a part in this, because this, quite simply, gives us a chance to create global standards in which we can take a great deal of pride.
I also believe that the
Content programme should be highly comprehensive – as we see from the Budget – in categories 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. It should also have an impact on the European institutions. We should give thought to how we can better prepare our content and how we can bring it closer to the citizens, particularly in schools. Researchers should also be offered a broad range of linked virtual libraries, including rapid access to them via search engines. The latter exemplify the widest possible variety of highly interesting business models, with the possibility of new links and of very rapid access to the most important digital content in existence.
We all know that scientific resources have developed a great deal over the years; one only needs to think of a library in an old monastery, in which people once compared the curative properties of camomile when applied to various parts of the body. A small example maybe, but it shows how science can derive great benefit from what has been learned in the past.
Finally, we also have to consider telecommunications, looking at which licensing systems we can use in future, and at how we handle the granting of rights to use. It is here that it is becoming evident that micro-payments in the telecommunications sector offer models for refinancing or cofinancing. As we all know, what costs nothing is worth nothing, and it is for that reason that I regard as ideal the 50% cofinancing that the Commission has proposed.
Being well-known as a campaigner for Europe’s small and medium-sized business structures, let me say that it is in the local sphere that we should give massive support to digital TV and the programmes that it offers. Packages of minimal size – I am thinking in terms of about EUR 100 000 each – but with a multiplicity of such programmes to prepare this European content in a professional way, are therefore likely to be particularly important in future. This could give rise to a degree of competition between those that are public and funded by fees and those in the private sector, which would be funded by incentives and are currently making massive advances in these modern sectors, as are the telecommunications companies that will in future also be providing this digital content through mobile telephones. These are quite new ways in which Europe could show that we are, quite simply, up there with the leaders."@en1
|
| lpv:unclassifiedMetadata |
"e-"1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples