Brussels, 13/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - In a letter to the president of the European Council, the president of the Conference of the Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) and the region of Tuscany, Claudio Martini expressed concerns about future EU financial perspectives, “in a period where many events are raising fears about an increase in national inwardness…the continuation of dynamic trans-national projects which directly involve the people…no country has profoundly challenged the added value of this orientation”. Martini noted the reduction of spending in the last proportion of financial perspectives for 2007-13. He added that the most pessimistic information to be feared was that of a total disappearance of this dimension from “cross-border cooperation”. He highlighted the fact that this would mean the sacrifice of a certain European ideal. Martini said that no argument justified a total or partial abandoning of one of the most innovative and relevant Community policies in terms of territorial cohesion and pertinence to the Lisbon and Gothenburg objectives. Martini joins; Salvatore Cuffaro, Inter-Mediterranean; Gunn Marit Hegelson, North Sea; Inge Andersson, Baltic Sea; Mihalis Angelopoulos, Balkans/Black Sea ) in calling on President Juncker to actively support their 150 member regions on this subject and invite all Member States to preserve the budget lines for all European actors in the safeguarding of a certain idea of European integration.