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Tuesday, 5 May 2009 - Strasbourg
Special Olympics in the European Union
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Declaration of the European Parliament on support for Special Olympics in the European Union

The European Parliament,

–   having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,

A.   whereas Special Olympics Europe provides sporting and social opportunities for adults and children with intellectual disabilities,

B.   whereas Special Olympics programmes are established in every Member State, involving half a million athletes,

C.   whereas Special Olympics implement EU policy daily, by promoting sport and volunteerism across borders, by breaking down stereotypes about disability, through public health provision and by including marginalised people in social activities,

D.   whereas Special Olympics Europe will host two major upcoming events: in 2010 the Special Olympics European Summer Games will take place in Warsaw, Poland, and in 2011 the Special Olympics World Summer Games will take place in Athens, Greece,

E.   whereas the EU financially supported the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Ireland,

1.  Considers that the provision of Special Olympics services at local, national and international levels requires significant funding;

2.  Notes that Special Olympics Europe is seeking financial assistance from the Commission to help fund the European Summer Games in Warsaw in 2010 and the World Summer Games in Athens in 2011;

3.  Acknowledges the benefits for athletes, families and the wider community that will result from these events taking place in Europe;

4.  Calls on the Commission to support the Games in Warsaw in 2010 and Athens in 2011;

5.  Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the Council, the Commission and the parliaments of the Member States.

List of signatories

Adamos Adamou, Jim Allister, Alexander Alvaro, Jan Andersson, Georgs Andrejevs, Emmanouil Angelakas, Roberta Angelilli, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Robert Atkins, John Attard-Montalto, Elspeth Attwooll, Jean-Pierre Audy, Margrete Auken, Inés Ayala Sender, Liam Aylward, Pilar Ayuso, Peter Baco, Mariela Velichkova Baeva, Enrique Barón Crespo, Etelka Barsi-Pataky, Domenico Antonio Basile, Alessandro Battilocchio, Katerina Batzeli, Edit Bauer, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Zsolt László Becsey, Glenn Bedingfield, Angelika Beer, Ivo Belet, Irena Belohorská, Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Monika Beňová, Rolf Berend, Maria Berger, Sergio Berlato, Giovanni Berlinguer, Thijs Berman, Adam Bielan, Slavi Binev, Jana Bobošíková, Sebastian Valentin Bodu, Herbert Bösch, Guy Bono, Mario Borghezio, Erminio Enzo Boso, Costas Botopoulos, Catherine Boursier, John Bowis, Sharon Bowles, Emine Bozkurt, Iles Braghetto, Mihael Brejc, Frieda Brepoels, Elmar Brok, Danutė Budreikaitė, Wolfgang Bulfon, Nicodim Bulzesc, Colm Burke, Niels Busk, Cristian Silviu Buşoi, Philippe Busquin, Simon Busuttil, Jerzy Buzek, Maddalena Calia, Mogens Camre, Carlos Carnero González, David Casa, Paulo Casaca, Michael Cashman, Carlo Casini, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Jean-Marie Cavada, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Călin Cătălin Chiriţă, Zdzisław Kazimierz Chmielewski, Ole Christensen, Sylwester Chruszcz, Luigi Cocilovo, Carlos Coelho, Richard Corbett, Giovanna Corda, Michael Cramer, Jan Cremers, Gabriela Creţu, Brian Crowley, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Ryszard Czarnecki, Joseph Daul, Dragoş Florin David, Bairbre de Brún, Arūnas Degutis, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Véronique De Keyser, Panayiotis Demetriou, Jean-Paul Denanot, Gérard Deprez, Proinsias De Rossa, Marielle De Sarnez, Marie-Hélène Descamps, Harlem Désir, Mia De Vits, Jolanta Dičkutė, Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Alexandra Dobolyi, Avril Doyle, Mojca Drčar Murko, Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop, Andrew Duff, Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, Christian Ehler, Lena Ek, James Elles, Harald Ettl, Jill Evans, Jonathan Evans, Robert Evans, Carlo Fatuzzo, Ilda Figueiredo, Roberto Fiore, Věra Flasarová, Alessandro Foglietta, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Glyn Ford, Brigitte Fouré, Janelly Fourtou, Juan Fraile Cantón, Armando França, Monica Frassoni, Ingo Friedrich, Daniel Petru Funeriu, Urszula Gacek, Kinga Gál, Milan Gaľa, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Iratxe García Pérez, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Jas Gawronski, Eugenijus Gentvilas, Georgios Georgiou, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Claire Gibault, Adam Gierek, Monica Giuntini, Ioannis Gklavakis, Robert Goebbels, Ana Maria Gomes, Donata Gottardi, Genowefa Grabowska, Vasco Graça Moura, Luis de Grandes Pascual, Martí Grau i Segú, Louis Grech, Lissy Gröner, Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Mathieu Grosch, Françoise Grossetête, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Catherine Guy-Quint, Fiona Hall, David Hammerstein, Małgorzata Handzlik, Malcolm Harbour, Marian Harkin, Rebecca Harms, Satu Hassi, Christopher Heaton-Harris, Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Esther Herranz García, Jim Higgins, Krzysztof Hołowczyc, Milan Horáček, Richard Howitt, Ján Hudacký, Ian Hudghton, Stephen Hughes, Filiz Hakaeva Hyusmenova, Mikel Irujo Amezaga, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Stanisław Jałowiecki, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Lívia Járóka, Georg Jarzembowski, Elisabeth Jeggle, Rumiana Jeleva, Anne E. Jensen, Dan Jørgensen, Pierre Jonckheer, Romana Jordan Cizelj, Aurelio Juri, Jelko Kacin, Filip Kaczmarek, Gisela Kallenbach, Othmar Karas, Sajjad Karim, Ioannis Kasoulides, Martin Kastler, Metin Kazak, Tunne Kelam, Glenys Kinnock, Evgeni Kirilov, Wolf Klinz, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Maria Eleni Koppa, Magda Kósáné Kovács, Miloš Koterec, Sergej Kozlík, Guntars Krasts, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Urszula Krupa, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, Aldis Kušķis, Sepp Kusstatscher, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Jean Lambert, Stavros Lambrinidis, Vytautas Landsbergis, Anne Laperrouze, Vincenzo Lavarra, Henrik Lax, Johannes Lebech, Stéphane Le Foll, Bernard Lehideux, Lasse Lehtinen, Jo Leinen, Janusz Lewandowski, Bogusław Liberadzki, Marcin Libicki, Alain Lipietz, Eleonora Lo Curto, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Andrea Losco, Patrick Louis, Sarah Ludford, Astrid Lulling, Florencio Luque Aguilar, Elizabeth Lynne, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Jules Maaten, Linda McAvan, Arlene McCarthy, Mary Lou McDonald, Mairead McGuinness, Edward McMillan-Scott, Eugenijus Maldeikis, Toine Manders, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, Vladimír Maňka, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Catiuscia Marini, David Martin, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Jiří Maštálka, Véronique Mathieu, Marios Matsakis, Yiannakis Matsis, Maria Matsouka, Iosif Matula, Manolis Mavrommatis, Manuel Medina Ortega, Erik Meijer, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Rosa Miguélez Ramos, Miroslav Mikolášik, Francisco José Millán Mon, Gay Mitchell, Andreas Mölzer, Claude Moraes, Eluned Morgan, Luisa Morgantini, Elisabeth Morin, Jan Mulder, Cristiana Muscardini, Antonio Mussa, Sebastiano (Nello) Musumeci, Riitta Myller, Juan Andrés Naranjo Escobar, Catherine Neris, Bill Newton Dunn, James Nicholson, null Nicholson of Winterbourne, Angelika Niebler, Ljudmila Novak, Cem Özdemir, Péter Olajos, Jan Olbrycht, Seán Ó Neachtain, Gérard Onesta, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Miroslav Ouzký, Siiri Oviir, Doris Pack, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Atanas Paparizov, Georgios Papastamkos, Neil Parish, Vincent Peillon, Bogdan Pęk, Alojz Peterle, Maria Petre, Rihards Pīks, Józef Pinior, Umberto Pirilli, Hubert Pirker, Paweł Bartłomiej Piskorski, Gianni Pittella, Francisca Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Zita Pleštinská, Anni Podimata, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Lydie Polfer, Christa Prets, Vittorio Prodi, Jacek Protasiewicz, Luís Queiró, Reinhard Rack, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Vladimír Remek, Karin Resetarits, José Ribeiro e Castro, Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Giovanni Rivera, Bogusław Rogalski, Zuzana Roithová, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Dariusz Rosati, Wojciech Roszkowski, Mechtild Rothe, Libor Rouček, Heide Rühle, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Eoin Ryan, Tokia Saïfi, Aloyzas Sakalas, María Isabel Salinas García, Manuel António dos Santos, Sebastiano Sanzarello, Salvador Domingo Sanz Palacio, Daciana Octavia Sârbu, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Toomas Savi, Christel Schaldemose, Agnes Schierhuber, Margaritis Schinas, Olle Schmidt, Pál Schmitt, Horst Schnellhardt, Elisabeth Schroedter, Willem Schuth, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Eva-Riitta Siitonen, José Albino Silva Peneda, Brian Simpson, Kathy Sinnott, Marek Siwiec, Peter Skinner, Nina Škottová, Alyn Smith, Csaba Sógor, Bogusław Sonik, María Sornosa Martínez, Jean Spautz, Bart Staes, Grażyna Staniszewska, Peter Šťastný, Petya Stavreva, Dirk Sterckx, Struan Stevenson, Catherine Stihler, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Dimitar Stoyanov, Margie Sudre, László Surján, Eva-Britt Svensson, Hannes Swoboda, József Szájer, Andrzej Jan Szejna, István Szent-Iványi, Konrad Szymański, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Hannu Takkula, Charles Tannock, Salvatore Tatarella, Britta Thomsen, Marianne Thyssen, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Gary Titley, Ewa Tomaszewska, Witold Tomczak, Jacques Toubon, Antonios Trakatellis, Catherine Trautmann, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Claude Turmes, Evangelia Tzampazi, Feleknas Uca, Vladimir Urutchev, Inese Vaidere, Nikolaos Vakalis, Anne Van Lancker, Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Ari Vatanen, Yannick Vaugrenard, Donato Tommaso Veraldi, Philippe de Villiers, Oldřich Vlasák, Dominique Vlasto, Diana Wallis, Henri Weber, Renate Weber, Andrzej Wielowieyski, Glenis Willmott, Iuliu Winkler, Janusz Wojciechowski, Anna Záborská, Jan Zahradil, Zbigniew Zaleski, Mauro Zani, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski, Stefano Zappalà, Tatjana Ždanoka, Dushana Zdravkova, Vladimír Železný, Roberts Zīle, Jaroslav Zvěřina, Tadeusz Zwiefka

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