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EU: Zanin, Europe makes sense, only if it is made of Regions

Speaker of the FVG Regional Council, let's give a voice to areas

18 October, 14:49
(ANSA) - TRIESTE, OCTOBER 18 - "Europe will still make sense only if it is made of Regions and legislative assemblies." That is was the speaker of the FVG Regional Council, Piero Mauro Zanin, said on the sidelines of a forum organised by ANSA, with reference to his recent mission in Brussels. "One of the most important challenges - he added - is to take responsibility for the needs of our territories, such as local authorities, associations, trade unions and workforce, to intervene in the construction of laws. Thanks to their suggestions we can make norms more coherent to the needs of the citizens." The regional councils, Zanin underlined, "must bring to Europe the demands of our communities, recovering the federalism and autonomy that have made the FVG Region great, moving on the tracks of the project Alpe Adria, which in the 80s took on a major role in the community." According to Zanin, "the challenge is crucial to start building a different Europe, closer to citizens through a subsidiarity that can somehow give them a voice" in the EU "also through collaboration with neighbouring regions such as Slovenia, Carinthia and Bavaria". In other words, we need to "re-launch the ideals of federalism and autonomy, so that there is a relationship between the regional communities in neighboring countries that have a common vision and that can achieve a critical mass, such as Italy, Slovenia and Austria, using our own identities and communities". This means bringing "within Europe no longer a single state or parts of a state, but a community that is working and has always worked together and have a long tradition of collaboration in history". (ANSA).

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