The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, thanked the mayors on Friday to have understood the importance of participating and involved with the European Union and has asked them to “transfer” the need to adapt and protect the European project to their municipalities. This has spoken in the spot with 32 Catalan mayors of commemoration of Europe’s Day held in the Sant Jaume square of the Catalan capital, together with the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni; The president of the Catalan Association of Municipalis (ACM), Meritxell Budó, and the president of the Federation of Municipalis de Catalunya (FMC), David Boote.
Buddó that she is mayor of La Garriga for Junts and was the Minister of the Presidency when Quim Torra presided over the Generalitat, has claimed a “committed commitment to open municipalism to Europe and abroad,” and added that global challenges cannot be approached efficiently without the municipalities. “Europeanizing municipalities is key to guaranteeing sustainability, democratic quality and progress,” said Budó, which has indicated that the European Union is not a distant institution, but takes shape from peoples and cities.
According to Illa, many Catalan municipalities “have agreed” to defend, jointly, common projects that have been financed with European funds, and that is something that citizens should know. “That they explain which companies in their municipalities have received European funds. That they explain what vaccines that took us out of the pandemic were the result of aid from Europe. They explain what new public equipment, new senior centers, new sports and cultural equipment … They have been built with the help of European projects,” he said.
The PSC leader has argued that it is not only the task of European institutions, but of all, to strengthen Europeanism, and that making the European project tangible in the municipalities is the way to make citizens understand that Europe, in their words, is not a thing that remains far: “We have it in each street, in each municipality, in each neighborhood of Catalonia”. The event has also attended the Minister’s Minister and External Action of the Generalitat, Jaume Duch; the president of the Diputación de Barcelona, Lluïsa Moret, and different Catalan mayors and councilors of Barcelona, as well as the director of the European Commission (CE) in Barcelona, Manuel Szapiro.
Under the title Som i Serem Gent Europewho plays with the start -ups of the Sardana Catalan Serem The Holy SpinaIlla has published a tribune on Friday in The avant -garde in which it makes a lit defense of the European project now that Europe is between two threats: the commercial of the United States of Trump and the war of the Russia of Putin. “Let us not be threatened or carried out by defeatism. Europe has in its hands all the economic, scientific and social potential need to protect and improve the quality of life of its citizens,” he says. Illa reiterates the will of the Generalitat for actively participating in European decision bodies and recalls that she already informed the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, her willingness to do so in Catalan.
