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"In favour. The figures show that there is a ‘body’ of 100 million European citizens working in various voluntary activities, who are able to contribute to the production of 5% of European GDP. Eighty per cent of citizens consider volunteering to be an important element of democratic life and a significant means by which each individual can participate in society. The need to continue to differentiate clearly and unequivocally between the value of volunteering, provided free of charge, and profit-making activities, still remains. So, too, does the essential need to emphasise the role of volunteering in promoting the principles of identity and common European values, such as solidarity and social cohesion, within the EU and beyond. The report sets out many good initiatives that should be followed up and continued in future EU Years. The sets of recommendations are quite reasonable and easy to apply in the Member States as they stand today. But still, on the ‘danger watch’ side, one of the key issues should be to identify the fine lines between ‘volunteering’ and ‘working for free’!"@en1
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