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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9057

27 October 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/education
EP urges Commission to double Erasmus funding by 2013

Brussels, 26/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - By 549 to 47 with 23 abstentions on Tuesday, the European Parliament adopted the co-decision report by Doris Pack (EPP-ED) on the integrated education and lifelong learning action plan (the Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius and Grundtvig programmes and two sub-programmes). MEPs recommend doubling the student grants under the Erasmus exchange programme by 2013. The basic grant has been EUR 150 a month since 1993, which is particularly worrying, notes...

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