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"I voted in favour of this report, not so much because of its Mediterranean Sea dimension, although that is important, but because of the underlying idea of going beyond the now anachronistic divisions associated with the nation states. Reality clearly shows that there are areas and peoples that have all kinds of affinities with one another, even though they belong to different countries. The Baltic experience is typical of what can be a useful process of European integration from the bottom up, in other words, a process initiated in order to share common interests and feelings and not one imposed from above, which, unfortunately, has happened all too often in Europe’s recent history. To refer to the Italian dimension, we have southern Italy, for example, which can and should be included in a Mediterranean macro-regional dimension, and northern Italy, which naturally looks towards the Alps as its frame of reference for development. In that regard, the Presidents of the Alpine regions of Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany and Austria met on 29 June in St Gallen, where they laid the foundations for what could become the future macro-region of the Alps. The peoples of Europe, who are all too often sidelined in the European decision-making process, should play a leading role in this macro-region."@en1
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