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===Sport===
{{Main|Sport policies of the European Union}}
Sport is mainly the responsibility of the member states or other international organisations, rather than of the EU. There are some EU policies that have affected sport, such as the free movement of workers, which was at the core of the [[Bosman ruling]] that prohibited national football leagues from imposing quotas on foreign players with EU member state citizenship.<ref name="BBC Boseman">{{Cite news |last=Fordyce |first=Tom |date=11 July 2007 |title=10&nbsp;years since Bosman |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4528732.stm |access-date=13 July 2007}}</ref>

The [[Treaty of Lisbon]] requires any application of economic rules to take into account the specific nature of sport and its structures based on voluntary activity.<ref>Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08, Opinion of Advocate General Kokott, para 207</ref> This followed lobbying by governing organisations such as the [[International Olympic Committee]] and [[FIFA]], due to objections over the application of free market principles to sport, which led to an increasing gap between rich and poor clubs.<ref name="IHT RT">{{Cite news |date=19 October 2007 |title=IOC, FIFA presidents welcomes new EU treaty, call it breakthrough to give sports more power |work=[[International Herald Tribune]] |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/19/sports/EU-SPT-OLY-EU-Treaty.php |url-status=dead |access-date=21 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201201945/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/19/sports/EU-SPT-OLY-EU-Treaty.php |archive-date=1 December 2008}}</ref> The EU does fund a programme for Israeli, Jordanian, Irish, and British football coaches, as part of the Football 4 Peace project.<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 March 2011 |title=Sports coaches from Israel travel to UK for training |url=http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/israel/press_corner/all_news/news/2011/20110329_01_en.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425235908/http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/israel/press_corner/all_news/news/2011/20110329_01_en.htm |archive-date=25 April 2013 |access-date=3 June 2013 |publisher=Eeas.europa.eu}}</ref>