Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-26-Speech-3-173"
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substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the eContent Plus Programme is an extremely important one. If it succeeds, it will lend support to the most fundamental component in the Lisbon Strategy. It cannot take effect too soon. I wish to congratulate my colleague, Mr Rübig, for his excellent work. We hope that the Commission will swiftly implement the changes accordingly.
The importance of the networked environment as a medium for knowledge and skills cannot increase unless there is essential, first-rate, reliable, comprehensive and safe content available. We, the Union’s legislators, have an obligation to ensure that all our citizens have high-quality European digital and information resources at their disposal. We recognise our cultural diversity and the growing needs of our citizens and the great opportunities that diversity offers.
Multiculturalism can also be a source of wealth in the digital world. It is for that very reason that the digital world is a different, self-made, artificial, stimulating, deceptive and furiously powerful tool. That is why we know that European action is needed to safeguard diversity and quality. We also know that global market forces cannot offer services like it. That is why we know that pan-European content production is vital to enable us to progress from an information society to an educated one. We are a part of that public sector which has to produce digital services for civil society. Let us therefore attend to the matter of funding. I am therefore pleased with Mr Rübig’s amendments, in which the money available for the programme has been increased from the cuts made earlier on by the Council. For the digital world to be one that is common to all, everyone must be involved, regardless of social position. Democrats must not tolerate digital dictatorship, but that is another matter."@en1
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