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"Mr President, I would like to take this opportunity to share with all of you the pleasure of San Sebastián having been selected as European Capital of Culture in 2016. However, I would also like to ask for people to stop criticising the decision of the panel of judges and, above all, to stop undervaluing the great bid that the city presented.
The bid submitted, ‘Waves of people’s energy’, is the result of shared enthusiasm, of thousands of people and different organisations all working towards a common goal – culture as a way of promoting understanding between different peoples.
San Sebastián is already a leading venue for culture because of its international film festival, its jazz festival and its human rights festival, but the bid that won the title of European Capital of Culture goes far beyond this, offering an incredible number of activities ranging from a meeting of Nobel Prize winners and a network of green spaces for culture to a G20 of NGOs and a project combining art and cuisine.
In short, this great project led to this great city winning on its own merits and not as a result of political decisions. Changing this choice is something that really would be a political decision."@en1
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