“In a few weeks 400 million European citizens will be called to the polls for elect the new Parliament. It will be a great exercise in democracy. And me I hope there is a great participation to vote because in this way citizens are protagonists of the future of the continent and of the Union of which they are part.” He said it Sergio Mattarella to the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Slovenia’s accession to the EU.
For the President of the Republic, “the courage to incisive and courageous reforms which are postponed to the next period after the European Parliament elections”. “It will then be the task of the European institutions and governments – continued the President after the call to vote – to ensure that the Union is a protagonist in international life by making its contribution which is essentially about the desire for peace, collaboration and stability. We cannot remain in a condition in which Europe and all its member states are consequently often spectators of what happens in the international community even in the face of events of which they sometimes suffer the consequences.”