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Ajuntament de Barcelona
Gabinet de Comunicació
CONGRES DE L'EUROPE 1988
"L' Europe des Europeens - Educat.ions /Echanges/Culture"
Thème: "Le Rè1e des Vil les et Communes"
6 de maig de 1988
�IN THE BUILDING OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, CITIES MUST
PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE. I UOULD EVEN SAY THEY MUST PLAY
AN ESSENTI , ROLE. AND THIS IS NOT SURPRISING. AFTER
C C^uiE
ALL, CITI ,S HAVE ALWAYS PLAYED A BASIC ROLE IN THE
I-I I STORY OF PUR OP E. WE COULD SAY THAT THE MOST INTENSE
PAGES OF THE HISTORY OF OUR CONTINENT BEAR NAMES OF
CITIES OR OF EVENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN CITIES. AND
THIS PREPONDERANCE HAS INCREASED IN THE LAST CENTURIES.
SINCE THE CAPTURE OF TIIE BASTILLE UNTIL NOW, THE
HISTORY OF EUROPE CENTERS ON CITIES , AND THIS IS A
LOGICAL FACT. EUROPE IS TIIE CONGESTED URBAN-~CONTINENT BY DrFINITION. THE CONCEPT OF CITY IS AN
EUROPEAN INVENTION. I
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WOULD SAY THAT CITIES, REAL
CITIES, ARE WIIAT ti'IE HAVE UBRE, IN EUROPE. IN OTHER
CONTINENTS THERE ARF. FEWER AND TEND TO BE OF A SOMEWHAT
DIFFEP,ENT NATURE. WHAT WE UNDEI:STAND BY A CITY IS, I
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SUP PO SF., A GP.EEK I NVENTIO*: , THEN ROMAN AND MAINLY
EUROPEAN. THEREFORE, TIiAT PREDOMINANCE I SAID REFOR.E HAS
AN ORJECTIVE EXPLANATION.
A M ORE PROMINENT ROLE FOR C IT IES
IN 1986,
IN ROTTERDAM, DURING A CONFERENCE HELD BY
ELEVEN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ON THE ROLE OF CITII:S IN THE
ECONO-iICAL RECOVERY, I DEFENDED -ti'dITH A DEGREE OF
RADICALISM- THAT CITIES t-dITHIN EUROPE AND CONCRETELY
6dITHIIv' THE COMMON MARKET SHOULD CREATE A LOBWTO DEFEND
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AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY, GRAIN AND WHEAT SURPLUS AND ALSO
MILK AND CIIF FSE SU RPLUS . TIIE TAXPAYER MUST SUBS IDI ZE
TIIESE SURPLUSES SO THAT THESE PRODUCTS CAN BE EXPORTED
TO A GROUP OF COUNTRIES, 9dI'.ICII, LATER, COMPLAIN ABOUT
WHAT WE ARE 001 NG .
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IN 1985, SPAIN WAS JOINING THE COMMON MARKET. THAT
YEAR I TRAVELLED TO SOUTH AMERICA AND WE WERE TOLD A FEN
(WAT DID SANGUINETTI SAY? WHAT DID
THINGS THERE.
ALFONSIN SAY? THEY SA ID : "BY JOINING THE COMMON MARKET
YOU ARE DOING US A FAVOUR OF LITTLE USE, BECAUSE THE
COMP•1ON MARKET IS PRODUCING MEAT AT A PRICE OF 130, WE
PRODUCE THIS MEAT AT 100 AND YOU SELL IT TO US AT 90".
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SUBS IDI ZED SO THAT IT CAN BE SOLD TO SOME OTHER
COUNTRIES. BUT TI3ESE COUN TRIES COULD OBTAIN IT AT A
DIFFERENT COST.
TH I S S ITUATI ON DOES N(7I' MAKE MUC II SENSE. I WOULD
LIKE TO LET THIS POINT RE QUITE CLEAR. I DO THINK THAT
EUROPEAN CITIES SHOULD CARRY MORE WEIGÜ'I'.
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I RELIEVE THAT TIIE FEELING OF NATI
ALL KEEP INSIDE TOGETIIE R WITII A CE'TAIN FEELING OF
SURVIVAL AND DEFEN SE, EXPLAINS THI
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HAVE NOT ONLY A
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ALSO
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AND THAT HAS MANY ARGUMENTS IN ITS FAVOUR, I AM NOT
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WHAT I MEAN IS THAT, AS A RESULT, WE
CRITICISING IT.
HAVE –IN EUROPE AND PROBARLY IN THE WHOLE WORLDPARLIAMENTS HH ICH ARE MORE
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THAN THE AVERAGE
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OF THE POPULATION AND THEREFORE, PARLIAMENTS WHIC;I ARE
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POPULATION.
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THE LAá1'S THAT ARE SET DOWN ROUND THE WORLD TEND TO
BE MORE CONSERVATIVE TIIAid PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK. WHY?
RECAUSE THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENTS AND THE ELECTORAL
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LAWS IIAVE BE EN NADE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE TERRITORY
AND, AS A CONSEnUENCE, THE INERTIA OF TRADITION RECOME
MORE IMPORTANT THAN TIIE iIRBAN FACTOR.
A CONTRIBUTION TO EUROPEAN CON STRUCTION
I
DO THINK `1'i IAT EUROPE NEEDS A P-1OVEMENT THAT IS
CAPA BLE OF RECOGNISING TRIS FACT AND THAT MUST PUT SOME
KIND OF LIMITATION.
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BEFORE. OTHERWISE, THE EUROPEÁVISM [ ;' IN TROUBLE. AND IT
^--IS IN TROUBLE BECAUSE, FIRST OF ALL, TO PAY EUROPE FOR
AGRICULTIJRAL SURPLUSES IS EXPENSIVE. THESE ARE SIJRPLUSES
WIIICH ARE CREATED EVERY YEAR AND HAVE TO .13E PA ID EVERY
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ARE ALREADY THERE. TIIEY ARE NOT SET UP EVERY YEAR, THEY
ARE ALREADY FUI LT
THIRD, BECAUSE THE EU ROPE OF THE NA TI ONS, ti'dHICH IS
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THE EXI STING O N E —THERE I S ;aOT ANY OTIIER— ISSLOi^1ER
AND
SPEAKS MORE CONFRONTED LANGUAGES THAN TIiE EUROPE OF
CITII:;S. P.T TIIIS IK)INT, IT IS A PLEASURE TO REMEP•IBER 401
PROFES SOR TIERNO G Ar,vaN VINO WAS TIIE GREAT MAYOR OF
MADRID. I REMET-IBER OUR FREQUENT CONVERSATIONS IN 6ti'HICH
4iE HAD AGREED IN THE IDEA OF AN EUROPE OF CITI7ENS, THE
EUROPE OF CITIES. ^
CITIES ARE CIIARACTERISTIC OF EUROPE. THEY ARE
EYPF.NSIVE AND COMPLICATED TO MANTAIN. RUT THEY ARE ALSO
ITS RI CHr,TES S.
ONCE, IN VIENhIA, I WAS TOLD : "WE ARE THREE HUNDRED
KILOMETRES FAR FROM BUDAP EST, THREP: HUNDRED FROI'•1 PRAGUE
AND TIIREE HUNDRED FRO M MUNICH, MORE OR LF,S S. PROVIDED
THERE ARE NOT BORDERS, IT IS A THREE—HOUR JOURNEY BY
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CAR.
UROPTE IS THE ONLY PLACE IN THE WORLD WHERE THIS IS
POSSIBLE. O BE IN A CITY AT ONLY THREE HOURS FROM OTHER
THREE CITIIES WHICTT ARE REAL JEWELS FROM TIIE POINT OF
VIEv'V OF CULTtJR_T;, II ISTORY, MUSIC, CREATIVITY AND ALSO OF
TTIE INITIATIVE AND S`IOOGLES OF THEIR WORKING CLASS AS
WELL AS OF THE NUANCES THAT THEY I-IAVE ADDED TO SOCIAL
LIFE.
TRIS IS EUROPE'S RICHNESS.
EUROPE IZAS OLTAINED AN IMPORTANT
LEVEL
OF
SUPRANATIONALITY -THE MOST IMPORTANT LEVEL EVER OBTAINED
IN TER I-IISTORY OF THE WORLD- AND BECAUSE OF THIS, IT HAS
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THE POWER AND THE MEANS TO WORK AND MAKE ITSELF BE HEARD
AS A REALITY THAT IS DI FFERENT FROM THE STATES WHICH IT
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IS COMPOSED OF. NOW, IT IS
TI M E TO INTRODUCE NEW
AGENTS AND FACTORS -LIKE CITIES- IN ORDER TO I3UILD THE
EURnPEM UNION.
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09.01. Activitat de representació (com a Alcalde)
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1982-1997
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Aquesta sèrie agrupa els documents sorgits de la funció representativa de l'exercici del càrrec d'Alcalde de Barcelona.
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4063
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Le rôle des Villes et communes / Conferència dins el Congrés d'Europa 1988 L'Europe des Européens
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Maragall, Pasqual, 1941-
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Municipis
Administració local
Unió Europea
Democràcia
Acció política
Territoris
Barcelona
Ciutats
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1988-05-06
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Aquest document forma part del fons municipal de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona (productor de la documentació) i és còpia digital de l’original custodiat a l’Arxiu Municipal Contemporani de Barcelona.
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