“The European Union owes a leap tomorrow. With unity and faith in its principles, which make it an example for the whole world,” emphasizes the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou in a Facebook post about her Europe Day.
At the same time, he points out that “The global liquidity environment makes it all the more necessary for Europe’s geopolitical emancipation and the need for unity, autonomy and strength so that it can more effectively defend its interests and its values.” “.
In particular, in his post, the President notes:
“Europe will not be created all at once, even in a common building: it will be shaped by concrete achievements that will first create real solidarity,” says the historic declaration of French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, published on May 9, 1950. five years and one day after the end of World War II and led to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community.
Today, 73 years later, the European Union remains the most brilliant historic attempt to create a community of independent nation-states experiencing the longest period of peace in its recent history. Achieving peace, the value of which shines even more in the darkness of war after Russia’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine. Members of the EU have built strong democracies by balancing the spread of authoritarian nationalisms that are increasingly spreading around it and beyond, and its achievements create real solidarity in the defense of our common home.
The global volatile environment makes it all the more necessary for Europe’s geopolitical emancipation and the need for unity, autonomy and strength so that it can more effectively defend its interests and its values. Statutory values such as freedom and human dignity, equal rights, protection from all kinds of threats, spreading prosperity and social and economic cohesion, protecting the environment and combating climate change, where the EU is a global pioneer. Protection also of an international system based on international law, on multilateral institutions and rules that will protect peace and cooperation.
The European Union owes all this to the leap into tomorrow. With unity and faith in its principles, which make it an example for the whole world.
With information from APE-MPE
Source: Kathimerini
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