Presaging the enlarged EU, the rapporteur's explanatory statement notes that the candidate countries could not support cultural programmes through the PHARE and TACIS programmes but that artistic cooperation has been enhanced through the THEOREM programme, by which they gained access to the Culture 2000 programme last year, as Commissioner Reding has just reminded us.
Prévoyant l'élargissement de l'UE, l'exposé des motifs du rapporteur indique que les pays candidats ne pourront pas soutenir des programmes culturels via les programmes PHARE and TACIS, mais que la coopération artistique a été renforcée grâce au programme Theorem, via lequel ils ont eu accès au programme Culture 2000 l'an dernier, comme vient de nous le rappeler la commissaire Reding.