Imanol Pradales has concluded his first official trip to European institutions with his participation together with other European regional representatives in the forum ‘Power Regions of European Summit’.
The Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, took part this afternoon in a European forum of regions in which he defended that “the European Union cannot be a ‘club of Member States’” because, moreover, from the point of view of effectiveness, “centralization is totally counterproductive.”
Pradales concluded his first official trip to the European institutions with his participation in the forum together with other European regional representatives ‘Power regions of the European Top’.
He started his intervention by warning that Europe is dealing with this “a challenging geopolitical situation” and to respond to this scenario you need a stronger EU that can find solutions for lasting peace and progress.
To this end, he has advocated promoting the founding principles of Europe, “a Europe built from its constituent regions and nations”.
Pradales believes that the regions should lead the EU’s defense industrial strategy and has made clear his rejection of a “despotic cohesion policy” based on “everything for the regions, but without the regions”.
Lehendakaritza recalled in a statement that: initiative of Lower Austria and Bavaria, more than 70 regions of the EU have come together to defend a position against the centralization of the management of the Structural Funds and thus of the EU’s cohesion policy.
The purpose of the top of the ‘power regions’According to the Lehendakaritza, defending before the community institutions is the need to strengthen those regions that represent a “large part of the European Union’s innovative and economic potential”.
Hours earlier, the Lehendakari met with the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsolaand has requested that Basque be used in the plenary sessions of the European Parliament and in the promotion of the Atlantic axis.
“Basque must continue to gain ground throughout Europe and be recognized as a language that is the universal heritage of all Europeans,” he said in statements to the media after a meeting at the European Parliament. with Basque Members of the European Parliament.
He added that in this sense, “the meeting that will take place on behalf of the European Parliament working group in December to discuss the official status of Basque, Catalan and Galician within the Parliament is very relevant. European”.
Pradales also met today with Alison Hunter and Almut Möllerresponsible for think thanks to the European Policy Centerdedicated to promoting European integration through analysis and debate.
Source: EITB
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