Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-06-12-Speech-2-129-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-06-12"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Kay Swinburne2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I am hugely supportive of volunteering activities, many of which help ensure a better quality of life for my Welsh constituents. As well as having enormous societal value, they also serve to equip individuals volunteering with important skills which can assist them later in becoming more employable. Whilst I recognise the importance and merits of promoting cross-border voluntary activities across the EU, and indeed the wider world, I was unable to fully support this report in its current format. I believe that initiatives such as promoting youth volunteering in sport or health and increased cooperation with third countries is of great value. However, I have reservations about the references made in the report concerning its funding. I do not agree that national, regional or local authorities should be mandated to ring-fence funding for organisations involved in volunteering activities. I also cannot support the recommendation for the creation of a new multiannual programme which would effectively guarantee funds to be available for volunteer projects. In these current economically turbulent times, authorities should be free to determine whether they would like to earmark funds for these voluntary groups or to direct them towards other projects nationally."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Kay Swinburne (ECR )."1
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