European Parliament
Marisa Matias  (GUE/NGL ),
in writing.
(PT)
Sport promotes socialisation and recreation, and is one of the most important factors in the health of modern society. In recent decades, playing grassroots sport has been increasingly replaced with merely attending professional sports events. There is a need for a European approach to promoting grassroots sport and to regulating professional sport, as well as to banishing violence and doping from sport. This report is a step in that direction, so I voted in favour.

