Socialist MEP André Franqueira Rodrigues considered that the new strategy from the European Commission for the outermost regions can mark a new phase of affirmation of the Azores and the outermost regions in the European Union.
According to André Franqueira Rodrigues, this strategy is based on a better recognition of the geo-strategic value of these regions within the EU framework.
The new European approach emerges as a response to the particularities and potential that the outermost regions present in the European context.
