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"Mr President, may I start by saying to Mr Papastamkos that I absolutely agree with him. I attended a huge ‘Soul for Europe’ forum in Berlin a few days ago, which was also attended by representatives of all the cultural agencies. We discussed these issues and said that Europe is not just an economic Union; it starts with culture.
As Jean Monnet says in his memoirs, ‘if I could start again, I would start with culture’. So I absolutely agree and the efforts we are making are in this direction.
I agree with you, but I fear, like everybody else, that governments, when they start cutting budgets in times of austerity, start with the obvious: culture – as we have seen already in certain cases – education and health. I agree it is a very narrow-minded policy and we should oppose it because, in the long run, we shall all feel the repercussions of such cuts."@en1
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