Translation of "Department Cultural Affairs " (English → French) :

3. Recognises the vital social and cultural role that sport clubs and associations are able to play in their local and national communities; considers that schools, training centres, sport clubs and associations should be more involved in various forms of engagement and participation of the local population through a better social dialogue, preferably initiated by local authorities (health, social affairs and education departments); asks for attention to be focused in order to ensure that sport clubs function without fanaticisms in ...[+++]compliance with the sporting and social ideals;

45. Recognises the vital social and cultural role that sport clubs and associations are able to play in their local and national communities; considers that schools, training centres, sport clubs and associations should be more involved in various forms of engagement and participation of the local population through a better social dialogue, preferably initiated by local authorities (health, social affairs and education departments); asks for attention to be focused in order to ensure that sport clubs function without fanaticisms in ...[+++] compliance with the sporting and social ideals;

45. Recognises the vital social and cultural role that sport clubs and associations are able to play in their local and national communities; considers that schools, training centres, sport clubs and associations should be more involved in various forms of engagement and participation of the local population through a better social dialogue, preferably initiated by local authorities (health, social affairs and education departments); calls for attention to be focused in order to ensure that sports clubs function without fanaticisms, ...[+++] thus upholding sporting and social ideals;

3. Calls on the Commission to move towards a horizontal application of the urban dimension and towards coordination between the departments of the Commission which are directly or indirectly concerned with urban issues, such as the Regional Policy, Enterprise and Industry, Competition, Energy and Transport, Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Research, Environment, Education and Culture Directorates-General, adoptin ...[+++]g an approach based on identifying specific problems of the urban situation in each field of action and at the same time highlighting the positive impacts of those policies on local contexts, and therefore proposes the setting up of an interdepartmental task force along the lines of the Urban-housing intergroup in the European Parliament;

The Governments of the Member States and the Commission of the European Communities were represented as follows: Belgium: Mr Philippe MAHOUX Minister for Education of the French- speaking Community Denmark: Mr Ole VIG JENSEN Minister for Education Germany: Mr Dieter BREITENBACH Minister for Science and Culture, Saarland Greece: Mr Georgios PAPANDREOU Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs Spain: Mr Gustavo SUÁREZ PERTIERRA Minister for Education and Science France: Mr François BAYROU Minister for Education Ireland: Ms Niamh BHREATHNACH Minister for Education Italy: Mr Giancarlo LOMBARDI Minister for Education Luxembourg: M ...[+++]r Erna HENNICOT-SCHOEPGES Minister for National Education Austria Mr Erhard BUSEK Federal Minister for Education Netherlands: Mr Jozef Maria M. RITZEN Minister for Education, Cultural Affairs and Science Portugal: Mr João de VALLERA Deputy Permanent Representative Finland: Mr Olli-Pekka HEINONEN Minister for Education Sweden: Ms Ylva JOHANSSON Minister for Education United Kingdom: Mr Tim BOSWELL Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education Commission: Ms Edith CRESSON Member IMPROVING AND DIVERSIFYING LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING WITHIN THE EDUCATION SYSTEMS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION - COUNCIL RESOLUTION The Council agreed on the following Resolution, which will be formally adopted at a forthcoming meeting after final legal/linguistic editing in Finnish and Swedish: " Introduction Since their Resolution of 1976 comprising an action programme in the field of education, the Council and the Ministers for Education meeting within the Council have dealt with the promotion of the teaching of the languages of the Union on many occasions.

The Governments of the Member States and the Commission of the European Communities were represented as follows: Belgium: Mr Eric TOMAS Minister for Culture and Sport (French-speaking Community) Denmark: Mr Erik JACOBSEN State Secretary for Cultural Affairs Germany: Mrs Ursula SEILER-ALBRING Minister of State, Foreign Affairs Mr Hans ZEHETMAIR Minister for Education, Science and the Arts, Bavaria Greece: Mr Tahnos MIKROUTSIKOS Minister for Culture Spain: Mrs Carmen ALBORCH Minister for Culture France: Mr Jacques TOUBON Minister for Culture and the French-speaking World Ireland: Mr Michael D. HIGG ...[+++]INS Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht Italy: Mr Roberto ROSSI Deputy Permanent Representative Luxembourg: Mr Jean-Marc HOSCHEIT Deputy Permanent Representative Netherlands: Mr A NUIS State Secretary for Education, Cultural Affairs and Science Portugal: Mr João DE VALLERA Deputy Permanent Representative United Kingdom: Baroness TRUMPINGTON Department of National Heritage -------------- Commission: Mr João de DEUS PINHEIRO Member ------------- 1Also present were the representatives of the four acceding countries, viz.: Norway Mrs Ase KLEVELAND Minister for Cultural Affairs Austria Mr Rudolf SCHOLTEN Federal Minister for Education and the Arts Finland Mrs Tytti ISOHOOKANA-ASUNMAA Minister for Education Sweden Mrs Margot WALLSTRÖM Minister for Culture -------------- EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ACTION ON CULTURE The Council held an exchange of views on the Commission communication concerning European Community action on culture.