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"Mr President, I abstained on this report on recognising and promoting cross-border voluntary activities within the European Union. I do support the idea generally, as I fully believe that volunteering should play an important part in our modern-day society. I am particularly keen to see more volunteering amongst young people in London, which is the region I represent, and this chimes well with Prime Minister David Cameron’s idea of the big society in the United Kingdom.
However, despite backing its premise, there were aspects of the report itself with which I could not agree. While there may be a call for volunteering to be made easier, I do not agree with the idea that it would be made easier with the creation of a centralised EU portal, as proposed by the rapporteur, or with the establishment of a European Skills Passport, which sounds very bureaucratic. Surely this is something as an issue – the issue of volunteering, even cross-border volunteering – which is best left to the Member States and to local and regional governments to organise amongst themselves rather than being regulated at EU level."@en1
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