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Mr President, I rose on a point of order which sounds a little impolite to draw attention publicly to the fact that the Presidency of the Council is not present. The title of Mr Bono’s report in English is ‘Education as the cornerstone of the Lisbon process’. In the English language I would prefer to delete ‘corner’ and insert ‘key’. A keystone in an arch is the central piece. If it is weakened or falls out, the whole structure disappears. A cornerstone is the one at the corner.
Mr Bono, you have spoken in French and you have used the expression, ‘au coeur du processus de Lisbonne’ [at the heart of the Lisbon process]. ‘Keystone’ and ‘
’ mean the same thing.
Commissioner Figel’, with your customary politeness you have expressed the Commission’s correct view that education should be
: it should be the keystone. My government is not here. I have no particular problem with my government – my Prime Minister made a wonderful speech here. I have a small political problem, which is that he does not represent my party, but even if it were my party in government, I would criticise my party and my government as I criticise my opponents, because they never take education seriously. We are failing our young people, we are failing because we think we know how to teach.
There are many members of the Committee who were teachers in their earlier professional lives. Teachers know about teaching, governments know nothing about education. Governments know nothing about job creation. Employers create jobs, governments do not. Governments frustrate the creation of jobs. They frustrate the profession of the teachers. I will give just one example, very briefly, of British teachers trained in England who cannot find employment in France or Italy because the educational authorities deny respect for their qualifications because they come from a different Member State.
I am running out of time, so I shall conclude by saying that something must be done. If you are a teacher in England and you want to teach in France, Italy or Lithuania you should be able to do so. When I next have the opportunity of speaking to the British Presidency, I will continue this discussion. But I would urge everybody to support the Bono report, my group will do so."@en1
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