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The pandemic “was a milestone for the EU, which in a few months took courageous and innovative decisions.” This was stated by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella speaking on video at the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio. For Mattarella in the Coronavirus emergency, the EU “has shown its driving force, the ability to rediscover the spirit of its founding fathers.”
Mattarella recalls that the “simple and meaningful words that attenuated the feeling of loneliness and bewilderment” of Ursula Von Der Leyen when the crisis broke out “were followed by concrete actions. The institutions have strengthened European cohesion in the sense of the founding fathers. moments of great uncertainty with these we must point to the future.
The Commission has not only made an exhortation for solidarity but has also carried out an exercise of functionality to indicate a way forward whose approval did not seem obvious ”.
“The July Council represents an extraordinary turning point and shows a level of ambition that matches the aspirations. The result is a point of arrival and a starting point: if we ensure recovery with the tools, we will have taken an important step in the path of strengthening our cohesion and integration in the shared heritage of a democratic sovereignty ”, added Mattarella.
“The dangers and problems are increasingly transnational and only unreserved multilateral collaboration can be effective: we see it, for example, in the field of vaccines,” said the President of the Republic. “The answer could only come from a range of initiatives. All levels, global, continental and state, is indispensable since none of them can be considered sufficient by itself,” he stressed.
Mattarella urges “not to make the EU a mere request for transfer of funds. Citizens live with anxiety and uncertainty at this time. The approval process of the recovery fund must continue as quickly as possible so that the resources are already available to early 2021 “. and national recovery plans quickly. This is a unique and perhaps unrepeatable possibility of interventions to ensure prosperity“.
“Let us not compromise with bad decisions the hope that those who will come after us will enjoy conditions at least equal to those we have enjoyed. In case of inactivity, the new generations will ask us why a generation” that has enjoyed prosperity ” it has not created the necessary infrastructure for growth and the necessary reforms, only increasing the mass of the debt. Today we live in unrepeatable conditions. ”
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