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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, inertia and short-sightedness: this is my diagnosis of the disease that is affecting the EU-27 today.
Inertia, because even though one in four young people in Italy is unemployed and there are 16 million people out of work in the euro area, it still has not taken any truly effective action to follow up the rumblings of European propaganda in recent months.
Short-sightedness, because Europe has not only come up with the same old formula for emerging from the crisis, but has completely lost sight of the more authentically regional dimension of economic and social cohesion policy. Only by placing the regions at the centre of political action, only by respecting their specific cultural aims, will it be possible to revive European development and employment policies, fuelled by the natural energies exerted by each geographical area: districts, small and medium-sized enterprises and crafts.
To resolve the employment problem, we must think small in the beginning, invest in local authorities and prioritise subsidiarity, safeguarding a heritage made up of linguistic and cultural diversity.
If the needle of the European compass does not steer European policies towards the regions, the European project is bound to founder."@en1
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