 It's a great pleasure for me to welcome you to the local dialogue of the EPP Group in the European Committee of the Regions here in Zagreb, the beautiful, the very beautiful capital of Croatia. Dear friends, it is really a pleasure for me to welcome you in Zagreb, in the framework of the 26th Congress of the European People's Party, with this dialogue that the EPP Group in the Committee of the Regions is organizing here today. Local politics is everything, and you are the ones that you are next to the people.