 Thank you very much chair dear commissioner dear colleagues on behalf of the European Committee of Regions and my friends from Villages cities and regions all around the Europe let let me firstly thanks to Manfred Weber for work Done and he's very constructive attitude democracy is very large domain and Compasing many principles values, but also tools for good governance And one of this is of course subsidiarity And it is not just Legalistic approach to define who does what in Europe? above all it is a political answer that brings clarity and transparency to the system Actually, it gives an answer to many requests put forward by citizens Namely better involvement and closing the gap between them and institutions today we offer a tool to answer this legitimate request Make an European Legislative machinery more transparent more inclusive and of all on the democratic components of our society via Elected leaders at all levels of governance from the bottom up Because European democracy does not start and ends in Strasbourg We originally and locally elected politicians are the facto and the euro European politicians because we make Europe happen on the ground we implement policies and we adopt regional Legislations that are essential to transpose the European laws and Actually, we are facing our common European challenges like for example humanitarian refugee crisis We are facing right now in my region in Poland So we believe that the answer for performing European democracy can be found by a better involvement of citizens City councillors mayors and regional leaders therefore The European Committee of Regents the formal body that represents over one million of Locally elected politicians in Europe is a vital instrument to strengthen This fundamental democratic element that should be better integrated in the EU low making Let me conclude by naming of By remaining all of us that while is the conference was shaped to hear Citizens it should not turn into the mechanism that excludes represents Citizens representatives the facto. Thank you very much