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"Mr President, just when responsible people and governments are watching every penny, the Commission proposes more expense – Youth on the Move card, European skills passport, European Vacancy Monitor – through Europe 2020, all for cultural diplomacy and to get young people to travel when they do that already, backpacking their way round the world on their own initiative. What do we need expensive promotions for?
As for spreading European culture, well make the most of it, because the way this crazy EU is going, there will be none left, just a meaningless mantra: ‘United in Diversity’. Do you not understand that Europe is not a single state but a wide and glorious tapestry of attractive, distinctive but matching cultural panels, and to amalgamate them is to reduce them all to a grey amorphous mass, thereby destroying that which you say you admire?
Do not push EU culture; make Italian, German, French, Dutch, British and all the other cultures available for all who want to sample them, and the rest will follow."@en1
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