Speeches » May 12th 2011- Speech to Parliament Strasbourg- Joint Debate - Education and Culture in the EU
May 12th 2011- Speech to Parliament Strasbourg- Joint Debate - Education and Culture in the EU
Speech to Parliament Strasbourg 12th May 2011 Joint Debate; Education and Culture in the EU Just when responsible people and governments are watching every penny you propose more expense,- "Youth on the move card", the "European Skills passport", "European vacancy Monitor", "Through Europe 2020".
All for cultural diplomacy and getting young people to travel when they do that already, "Back Packing" round the world on their own initiative. What do we need expensive promotions for? As to spreading European Culture, well make the most of it because the way this crazy EU is going there will be none left, just a meaningless mantra, "United in Diversity".
Do you not understand that Europe is not a single State but a wide and glorious tapestry of attractive, distinctive, but matching cultural panels and that to amalgamate them is to reduce all to a grey amorphous mass, destroying that which you say you admire? Don't push EU culture, make Italian, German, French, British, Dutch and all the other cultures available to all who want to sample them, and the rest will follow.
Derek Clark MEP Strasbourg 12 May 2011