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"The European Schools system is taking on a life of its own with the debate as to whether ‘the European Schools system fosters the concept of European citizenship’ (to quote recital C of the report).
We can understand the need for European Schools designed to provide mother-tongue education to the children of EU officials. However, the system has come to look odd when, for example, only 1.6% of the pupils at the European School, Culham are children of staff at EU institutions and bodies. With EU enlargement, the number of official languages has become so large that the whole situation involving European Schools needs to be reviewed. With EU bodies being placed in decentralised locations, European Schools would now have to be founded in all the Member States.
We believe that a more flexible solution needs to be found when it comes to the education of EU officials’ children. The EU institutions and bodies should, as employers, quite simply pay the school fees (up to a certain level) for their staff’s children. If the parents then choose to send their children to a state or local authority school or to a private independent one, they should sort the matter out locally. As a rule, there is the opportunity to choose between a local and an international school in those places where the EU institutions and bodies are situated. The system of European Schools appears to have had its day.
We have therefore voted against this report."@en1
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