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The Mavromatis report addresses one of the key factors in the success of the teaching and training of EU citizens, namely language skills.
The Europe of the future needs citizens who are ready to respond to the challenges of the knowledge-based society. Accordingly, it is vitally important that they can communicate in at least two languages other than their mother tongue.
I therefore believe that it is necessary to adopt an Indicator of Language Competence in order to bridge the current gap in verifiable data about the EU citizens’ language skills. It is unacceptable, however, that certain languages are favoured to the detriment of others, not least Portuguese, which is spoken by 200 million people and is the EU’s third most widely-spoken language in the world.
Quite apart from this language indicator, there is an alarming political indicator emerging from the report before us, namely that of a Europe that focuses more on itself than on the world around it, and of a Europe that values its languages on the basis of internal demographics, which may work out very well for some, but which is politically unacceptable in terms of the founding principles of the EU.
For these reasons, I voted against the Mavromatis report."@en1
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