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"Mr President, I am sorry that, because my train was delayed, I have only just arrived and have not therefore been able to hear the previous debate.
I have asked to take the floor because, last year, I was rapporteur for a report dealing with the local dimension of the European Employment Strategy. In the report, I wrote sincerely in favour of a number of the aspects commended by Mr Napolitano in his report and, in particular, the importance of a bottom-up-perspective.
I do not, however, share Mr Napolitano’s perspective which, at heart, appears to be in some way trying to reduce or even do away with the importance of the national political democracies. He emphasises very strongly the local and regional levels, on the one hand, and the Commission and EU levels, on the other, an approach I believe to be very dangerous. I believe, in spite of everything, that the national democracies themselves form the democratic basis for the European project. I therefore believe that this local and regional development should take place within the framework of these national democracies. The nations, and above all their governments and parliaments, must be the link between the local, regional and European levels. To circumvent the national level would be completely reprehensible. It could not lead to anything other than a weakening of European democracy, and that is something which none of us could wish to see."@en1
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