Brussels, 02/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - By adopting the report last Thursday in Brussels of Vasco Graça Moura (EPP-ED, Portugal) on the "role of the school and educational training in gaining access to culture for the optimum number of citizens", Parliament regretted that only 17% of pupils aged 15 years old in the EU possessed basic educational skills (reading, writing and arithmetic) in accordance with the OECD average. The EP is calling on the Commission to elaborate a paper on the...