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"Madam President, Mr President of the Commission, the text of the recommendation trots out general principles that have already been accepted, precisely when a structured outline of specific measures to be adopted would be more desirable. One might say that everyone agrees on the goals but few know what to do to achieve them.
A knowledge-based economy requires a high level of education, as the text states, but it makes no mention of the fact that a high level of education has to be based on schooling that is also high quality right from a child’s first years at school. As basic and secondary education in most countries is known to have a number of failings, it is a pity that the recommendation does not call on the Member States to examine this aspect and to seek an urgent solution to it. This document points to the future, and the future cannot do without such a solution.
On another point, the text emphasises the need to mobilise European public opinion so as to convince it of the benefits of the Lisbon Strategy and to make it accept them, but there is not a single word on cultural policies at either a European or a national level. It talks of a culture of dialogue, but it does not even mention a dialogue of cultures. For the European citizen, accepting the need for the Lisbon Strategy and seeing its benefits will be a cultural process, more than anything else. Culture is not only an essential aspect of democracy; it is also the yardstick with which we can measure the gap between failure and success in a strategy like Lisbon, particularly if we want to preserve the European social model.
A knowledge-based economy implies a world view that only culture can provide. For that very reason, we must call on the Council, the Commission and the Governments to make a special, serious commitment in the financial sphere as well – I repeat, in the financial sphere as well – to further Europe’s cultural policies. Without them, the Lisbon Strategy will remain little more than a nice list of good intentions."@en1
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