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Books hold power!

They inform us, make us think... and question.

Reading has been shown to be good for health and wellbeing. It also improves academic performance, creativity, employability, and democratic participation.

Even so, literacy amongst adults is stagnating or declining in many European countries. Recent studies also show reading for pleasure is in decline.

So, what better day than World Book and Copyright Day to highlight some amazing European literature ➡️https://euprizeliterature.eu/

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Pascal Drabik Apr 23

@EUCommission
On Earth, one day is about 24 hours. And time is going at the speed of 60mn per hour wherever we are.
So these days, people have to choose between facebook (for instance) and books.
Internet is a wonderful piece of technology. Unfortunately, most people do not know how to use it wisely, for the benefit of all.

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Eggs now in different baskets.

@PascalDrabik @EUCommission Maybe client side scanning of EU citizens' devices, something that is being pushed HARD by many EU nation states so that the European TLAs will know what every citizen is reading will encourage people to start reading properly curated, written-and-edited dead-tree publications.

No-one can work out what I read, or which part of an article attracts my attention, or which ad I look at when I am reading a print newspaper in the privacy of my own home.

#chatcontrol