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"I find the report of Mr Tőkés concerning higher education to be highly important. We all know that the acquisition of high-quality, truly useful and usable knowledge is in the interest of present and future generations, and the whole of Europe. The higher education institutions of our time must offer competitive knowledge, and must do so by following actual demands on the labour market. In this context, I would like to specifically highlight the issue of the access of national minorities to higher education in their native language. The motto of the European Union is ‘United in diversity’. The preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity therefore requires that these national minority communities are able to preserve their distinctiveness, represent their interests and stand up for the rights to which they are entitled. To this end, however, national minorities, similar to majority societies, need well-educated leadership, an elite. And in order to have such an elite – possessing reliable, competitive knowledge – to represent the interests of these communities, there is definitely a need for high-standard, high-quality and not the least native-language higher education, and for the majority society to support and guarantee such education. Majority societies should therefore give special attention and support to the higher education institutions of traditional national, ethnic and linguistic minorities, in particular where endangered cultures and languages are concerned."@en1
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