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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9840
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Internal market committee recommends that young people's access to video games should be more closely controlled

Brussels, 13/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - Video games should not be demonised - they have a beneficial effect on the mental development of children - but parents should have a “red button” to allow them to disable games they feel to be inappropriate. That is the message contained in the own initiative report by Toine Manders (ALDE, Netherlands), adopted unanimously by the European Parliament internal market and consumer protection committee on 11 February.

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