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This article was published May 9, 2015 at 11:44.
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“We who are pro-Europeans, we never tire of support greater political integration. It serves this purpose a change of course to reduce internal imbalances and revitalize the energies penalized by excessive austerity. ” So Sergio Mattarella on the occasion of Europe Day the 65th of the Schuman Declaration (the first official speech in which it appears the concept of Europe as an economic union and, ultimately, political, pronounced by the then Foreign Minister of the French government).

Mattarella: less selfishness in the EU on immigration and work
The head of state also stressed that “selfishness is outside the values ​​of the Union ‘ . That’s because “it takes less selfishness to give our young people a European perspective of employment ‘, but also’ less selfishness to address in a positive way the drama of migration” and “less selfish to play an effective role for peace in Africa and in the Middle East. “

From Mattarella appeal to the responsibility of the ruling classes
Mattarella stressed that “Europe is founded on high ideals, and ideals need to address today’s global challenges . Europe is not only a group of states who live in the same continent. ” That’s why the 65th anniversary of the declaration by Robert Schuman – which took origin from the Coal and Steel Community, and therefore the process of European integration – is “for all of us an opportunity for reflection, and also a warning, because ‘the responsibility of the ruling classes of today are no less demanding than those of the immediate post-war period. ” For Mattarella “the new challenges of the global society must put the whole of Europe, new ambitions and new goals.” To face “with the same” creativity “of our better past.” Especially since “sometimes the Union presents itself to citizens with complicated technicalities and with a philosophy that seems to ignore the work is lacking, the growing inequalities, the necessary solidarity.”

Napolitano and Ciampi: EU integration only way to grow
A call for greater integration of the EU was also addressed by the presidents emeritus of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, in the 65th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, they wanted to address a message especially to the younger generations. “Europe – they wrote – to grow economically and socially advance for giving effect to its values, to reaffirm its identity and its role in the world, does not have before him no other path than that an ever closer integration of an ever closer union in the political sense between its states and its peoples. “

Mogherini: a shame that Europe will awake in front of the dead
“It’s a shame to me that Europe will wake up in front of the dead, but finally there is a European response.” So the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Federica Mogherini, answering a question from a student of Palermo, during the “Dialogue with Citizens”, Saturday morning at Expo. Mogherini admitted that the answer that was given in the last two weeks will not be decisive because “there is no single measure that can change the situation overnight. What we are doing is on several fronts and for the first time we are doing it by Europeans all together. ” But above all, explains the high commissioner, “must be resolved the problem of Libya until we resolve the war there in Libya and the absence of institutions creating a corridor perfect for anyone who wants to lead to traffic of emigrants.”

Mogherini in the afternoon, with the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, has officially cut the ribbon of the EU Pavilion at Expo. The inauguration was also attended by the president of Expo, Diana Bracco, and Mr Giuseppe Sala. In front of the pavilion there was a big parade of young men with shirts and flags of Europe.

After the inauguration, the High Representative for EU foreign policy has continued his visit to Expo 2015 with a tour inside the staged by Save the Children, an organization committed since 1919 to save the children and protect their rights. An event during which Mogherini, on the issue of migrant children, stressed that it is up to all of the EU “share a duty and a responsibility to ensure these children, all children, a future.”

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