translate English to French: What is now needed is a different approach for three reasons: giving priority to quality in education and training has become vital to the EU's competitiveness and to the preservation of its social model; indeed Europe's very identity over the next millennium depends on this; the demand for education and training is continually increasing; on the supply side, the emergence of the information society is providing a new potential; social exclusion has reached such intolerable proportions that the rift between those who have knowledge and those who do not, has to be narrowed.
- la demande d'éducation et de formation ne cesse d'augmenter; en termes d'offre, la réponse connait un renouveau avec le développement de la société d'information ;