Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-03-Speech-2-265-500"
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"en.20120703.18.2-265-500"2
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"This is the latest hare-brained scheme to come from Brussels: the European macro-region. Well, it is certainly ‘macro’, but we will have to see about the ‘European’ part. For the macro-region aims to bring together regions (not states) around a common project (a sea, a river, etc.), even if those regions do not belong to a Member State of the EU. The aim is clearly to encourage us to bypass nation states and to promote the blurring of external borders. On the basis that one cannot leave the creation of such entities to spontaneous initiatives, one then asks the Commission to come up with a list of all of the macro-regions that it can imagine and, of course, to encourage their creation. As a result, Mr Alfonsi’s report proposes two macro-regions in the Mediterranean, bringing together areas to the north and south of this sea. This is a precursor to these countries, which are today, for the most part, threatened by Muslim fundamentalism, being included in the European single market and the free movement of people between the two shores. What next? An Atlantic ‘macro-region’ to promote the implementation of a vast transatlantic market? We must put a stop to this madness!"@en1
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