 Ahead of the Committee of the Regents' Plenary Session, the EPP Group are meeting to define their priorities. And showing their part of a larger EPP family, they've invited the Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, and the President of the Wilfred Martin Centre for European Studies, Mikolas Zurindas. Together they'll see how local and regional authorities can have an impact on EU policy. Well, the Regents in the European Union are the other Fundament of Europe. There are the citizens, there is a link to the citizens. And for me as Group Leader of the European People's Party in the European Parliament, it's important to profit from the knowledge and from the expertise of the colleagues. So that's why we are working on a strong cooperation. And for the EPP, the Regents are really the Fundament, and that's why we are working on this. No doubt about the reality that local and regional authorities have a significant role in the work of the EPP Group. Management based on multi-level governance increases ownership at the local and regional level. And this is fantastic.