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MEP RaĆ¼l ROMEVA i RUEDA Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
The European motto is "United in diversity" and this diversity cannot be understood...
...without taking in consideration the Mediterranean dimension, the Southern countries.
It is not only a climatic question, it is basically a question of historical responsibility...
...knowledge, culture, languages, diversity even from the point of view of the acting...
...organisational and working ways; they are all part of the European richness.
And it is from this perspective from which it is necessary to understand the added-value...
...that the South supposes for the rest of the European project.
But, furthermore, in a crisis context, it is necessary to be very aware of an important aspect...
...the South, the countries of which this European strip is formed, has a lot to provide to the whole European project.
From the point of view of the quality and working capacity, on the one hand...
...but also, in terms of the infrastructures opportunities, on the other hand, in geopolitical and geostrategic terms...
...and even in innovation capacity, research and the knowledge that many regions of the planet and particularly Europe have.
That is why I hope that in the framework of the current debate on the way out, the ways out, to the crisis...
...we take into consideration this diversity and, above all, bear in mind that the Southern perspective...
...means a great chance to drive opportunities and, above everything, solutions.