Translation of "la culture passé présent avenir " (French → English) :

Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, Tibor Navracsics, said: "Our cultural heritage is more than the memory of our past; it is the key to our future.

– having regard to the Commission report of February 2006 entitled ‘Transnational collective bargaining: Past, present and future’,

4. Underlines the immense importance of reconciliation for the future of the region and of good neighbourly relations for the European integration process of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbouring countries; reiterates the importance of the work done by the ICTY in this regard; emphasises the need for political representatives in Bosnia and Herzegovina to acknowledge the past in order to work successfully together towards a better future for all citizens of the country; highlights the important role which neighbouring countries, religious authorities, civil society, art, culture, the media and educational systems can play in this ...[+++] difficult process;

This is highly symbolic and very important because we believe that, as in the past, culture can provide many important answers to the future of Europe.

In 2005, as the European Capital of Culture, Cork will show all that is great in our past but also will provide inspiration for the future.

However, despite this forward vision, it has never forgotten or neglected its past, indeed it treasures and protects its history and culture, in the ballet, the Opera House, the Everyman Theatre, Triskel Arts Centre, National Sculpture Factory, Crawford Art Gallery, Crawford College of Art and Design, University College Cork, Cork Institute of Technology, the School of Music, the College of Commerce, to mention just a few.