Posted by Jose Chulvi 25 June at 14:20
Not BREXIT
but BREIN
A message from Ximo Puig the President of
the Valencian Community, a good friend.
Europe cannot be understood without the United
Kingdom. The Europe which the world admires,
is that which has been the hotbed of the brightest
ideas of human thought for centuries. The Europe
of Shakespeare, Newton, Darwin, Stuart Mill, Jane
Austen, Dickens, John Lennon, Keynes.
The Europe of parliamentary democracy and
freedom. The Europe which displaces the boundaries of art and knowledge, radiating creativity to
the rest of the world. It is the Europe of peace after
the war. From that peace has evolved the material
that allows the real progress of peoples. In short,
Europe has largely learned to be what it is, thanks
to the UK.
In Valencia we understand this. More than
82,000 British citizens live with us. 89% of these
in the province of Alicante.
In 2015 more than 2 million Britons visited
us. and their preferred destination was Alicante, especially Benidorm.
We export in value almost 3,000 million euros, and
the UK is one of the main investors in Valencia
Province.
To all those, who live among us and to our
visitors, the investors, the Generalitat Valenciana
wants to send a message of calm and reiterate our
affection and gratitude.
This message of tranquillity extends to our
businesses, and to the thousands of people from
Valencia who for work or for study reasons are in
the UK.
The Valencian Community has been, is, and
will be a welcoming land, a land that wants to do
business for the benefit of all.
Whatever the next chapter in Europe will be,
we want it to be written with friendship and cooperation with the United Kingdom.
No political project is without its risks and
challenges. Europe has to change, adapt and combine all identities and sensibilities.
All forms of feeling European. Europe needs
to regain its sense of being.
We have to once again make a reality of the
quote of Jean Monnet.
“We are not bringing
together states, we are
uniting people.”
We need to regain our passion for Europe.
XIMO PUIG.