European Parliament
Alyn Smith (Verts/ALE ),
in writing
I congratulate our rapporteur on his initiative. Education is and must remain a Member State competence. Indeed, we in Scotland control our own education system and have for centuries. However, our rapporteur makes the very fair point that often our youngsters leave school ill-equipped to participate as citizens, and often know little about the EU or other governments which work for them. The steps set out in this report make interesting homework for teachers across the EU.

