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"Mr President, Commissioner, I would firstly like to congratulate the rapporteur. On the basis of a Commission proposal with the best of intentions and leading us in the right direction, I believe that the rapporteur presented the committee with a good draft report and that the result achieved by that committee, as the rapporteur pointed out, is highly satisfactory. It would be a good thing if the Commission and, subsequently, the Council could take up the proposals of this Parliament’s Committee on Regional Policy.
Europe is constructed on the basis of agreements and consensus. We are dealing here with an example of what, in many cases, this way of operating has consisted of: gentlemen’s agreements. But from now on many of these agreements must be reflected in the Treaties, with a relevant legal basis. This is an extremely important issue, as the rapporteur has pointed out very effectively. We are dealing with European territorial construction. For this we need clear, homogenous and geographic criteria. These criteria must be based on politico-administrative criteria – forgive my repetition. We must not create fictitious units which, in the end, only lead to a lack of confidence in European construction on the part of the different States, the different regions and the citizens. I am therefore pleased with the proposal from the committee. I would lastly like to point out an amendment which rather reflects what we are talking about: the amendment by Mrs Cerdeira on the division of the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, which are politico-administrative units, each with its own status. In this specific case I would like to point out how Mr Hernández Mollar, from my group, also fought for this recognition for a long time, and I believe that tomorrow, when the report presented by the Committee on Regional Policy is approved, we will have achieved a satisfactory result. This is an example and a reflection of what we want in terms of the division and structuring of Europe."@en1
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