Statement by Androulla VASSILIOU, (Cyprus), Commissioner-designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, during her hearing at EP in Brussels.

Brussels

Committee on Culture and Education

hearing of Commissioners

VASSILIOU, Androula (CY, EC)

2010 Commissioners' hearings (T)

hearing of Androulla VASSILIOU (T)

Hearing of Androulla VASSILIOU, (Cyprus), Commissioner-designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth: Extracts

Exterior view of the European Parliament, Brussels

Cutaways of arrival of Androulla VASSILIOU, greetings , Hand shakes with EP Committee Members, sitting at her desk (5 shots)

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in English "Higher education is crucial . Despite the real progress made under the Bologna process not enough of our Universities match the best in the world"

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in French" A green paper will allow to identify the European and National actions which will make possible to European Creators to better express themselves"

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in French "Cinema is and should remain a major factor of European Culture"

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in French "The Unesco Convention gives us a legal basis to introudce new cultural priorities and other policies, I believe that we can do even more than that, in particular on copyright. It is necessary to strike a balance between artist revenus , which is vital for the creation and the cultural diversity, and a larger access to culture"

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in English, "I am in favour of social inclusion of everybody and we should give emphasis to young people who are from poor families or disadvantage groups ,children of immigrants, children from families of uneducated parents"

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in English, "Sport is really a benefit to everyone. It is not only the economic dimension of sport but this is the societal part of sport which is so important (cutaway MEP)

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in English, (follow up on sport)"In order to mobilize and energize all the young people that we have, through sport is the best way, team work, volunteering, through sport is the best way"

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in English, "Mobility of teachers is equally important as mobility of students and other adults"

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in English, "The Council regulation says that all 23 official languages should be equal , should be recognised and should be respected. We should go a bit further; because the Treaty speaks about linguistic diversity, and we should respect that and linguistic diversity does not mean just 23 languages. It means regional and minorities languages, we have about 60 I believe, and also we have to respect the 400 languages that are spoken by immigrant communities"

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in English, "It is a new addition to the Lisbon Treaty that we have to take action to see that more people are involved in the democratic life of our societies and indeed it should be a central point of our programmes in the future of how to mobilise the interest of our young people in European affairs, regional affairs local affairs and internaitonal affairs"

Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner designate for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, in English, "Trade agreements; it's a good way to promote culture as well because I think that the mutual respect and understanding and cultural diversity between us is a condition precedent to any other relationship; So if we want to encourage trade relations wiht other countries we should make it possible to be absolutly sure that cultural diversity is respected and agreed"