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"I supported the adoption of this report, and I consider it important to devote increased attention to developing and supporting sport at the European Union level, especially since Article 165 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union gives the EU new powers to support measures taken by the Member States in relation to sport. Sport is very important from the point of view of maintaining and promoting health, since the absence of physical activity has a detrimental effect on the health of Europe’s citizens. Sport also has an extremely strong economic impact, providing work, directly or indirectly, for 15 million Europeans (5.4% of the working population) and added value of roughly EUR 407 billion. As a member of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, I consider it important that studies be organised at the European level on the distinctive features of women’s sport, the reasons why women and girls stop doing sports and the continued inequality with regard to sporting opportunities for women. The popularisation of women’s sport should be improved, because it is clearly overshadowed by men’s sport, and, as a result, many young girls unfortunately do not consider sport to be sufficiently important. Popular sport is the best way to prevent a number of diseases, and underestimating the role of sport in the advancement of society is a mistake we will later seriously regret."@en1
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