Mattarella: "The great value of the EU is in the factors that unite"

“With the entry of Slovenia into the European Union, twenty years ago, our countries have reunited in a shared path: and the Italian Republic has been happy to be able to support and accompany the adhesion process, so that the two peoples found themselves contributing to a common destiny “. It is a passage of the intervention of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, at the inauguration ceremony of the “First European capital of cross -border culture Go2025!“.

“Working side by side in the European institutions – underlines the head of state – mutual trust has been consolidated and there has gained a sense of belonging and further identity: the common European identity. The differences, the misunderstandings, have given way to factors that unite.

“Nova Gorica and Gorizia aspire to celebrate the culture of borders. With Chemnitz, in Germany, Nova Gorica was chosen as the European capital of culture 2025 and the Slovenian city wanted to launch a challenge with the twin Gorizia: propose itself as an experience of culture through the border, “he adds. “If culture, by definition, knows no boundaries, it arises, still, as always, as an expression of a community but open to knowledge, in common research, to mutual enrichments. Defeated the horrors of nationalist extremism, which has so badly produced in Europe – notes the head of state – re -emerge the values ​​of coexistence and welcome.