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"Mr President, television has been a catalytic medium for many years now, informing, educating and entertaining European citizens.
The European Union is aware of the lack of quality European productions and has set itself the primary objective in the TV without Frontiers Directive of reversing this worrying state of affairs by setting broadcasting quotas in order to promote European and independent productions.
It is very positive that the European Commission notes in its last report for 2001-2002 that there has been a bigger increase in the number of European works scheduled, with broadcasting of independent European productions fluctuating at around over 10%.
However, this positive image has a number of negative aspects. For example, careful examination of the quotas shows that they are mainly met by domestic productions. Although this certainly does not contradict the directive, it does not help to create a European audiovisual area, which cannot come about while European viewers have inadequate access to the audiovisual productions of other European countries. It is a fact that joint European productions need to be promoted.
The report by Mr Weber, who has worked methodically and has received congratulations on a job well done by the entire Committee on Culture and Education, also extends to other important matters, such as safeguarding pluralism and the major issue for many countries of concentration of the media.
The Commission therefore needs to take serious account of the proposals in the report. It is our duty to resist the pressure being exerted for a reduction in the regulatory arrangements in the directive, the minimal rules of which have been unable to reverse the deterioration in programme quality.
This century's culture of the image is a challenge to us to defend European culture and to channel it as a competitive product to other continents on our planet, given that to date, unfortunately, its citizens have consumed whatever is produced on the other side of the Atlantic.
This major issue is a cultural and, primarily, a political issue. We have seen the extent to which the glamour productions of the United States contrast with the reality of New Orleans."@en1
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