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"Like motherhood and apple pie, information and communication are what almost all of us in the European Union can believe in. This really is the only topic that unites us. From left to right of the Chamber, we are all agreed in lamenting the disastrous shortage of information and communication.
It is a black hole in which sceptics of all kinds are swallowed up, there to dispense their venom. One has only to consider the debate that is raging in France at present. The ‘no’ camp will stoop to lying in any way in order to advance its cause. In the name of Europe, is nothing sacred?
How paradoxical it is, too, that Commissioner for Communication Mrs Wallström, who took part in the debate, had a ten times higher profile with her previous portfolio - that of the environment – than with this one, which should however thrust her centre-stage.
Poor old Europe, the ‘non-communicable’ subject, it would appear. I have no magic solution, any more than anyone else has. Just a few certainties.
I am certain, for example, about paragraph 5 of our report, which is about teaching Europe in schools, explaining it, recounting it and decoding it, and doing so in a lively way involving dialogues, exchanges and visits. This is a crucial task, and not an impossible one. Having spent six years replying to the questions of thousands of secondary school pupils, I personally know that, for them, the EU will never again be a merely virtual object."@en1
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