Euro-scepticism is spreading.
Impossible to close one’s eyes to the serious problems plaguing the continent: the work market, the banks, speculations and the Euro, young people and their prospects, pressure from minorities, rules for entering and becoming a part of the zone, wars at the borders…
At the same time, we can choose to see the unity of Europe at a higher level: the economic and political integration of our continent is the greatest political conquest of the last century and is part of an irreversible journey towards an ever more united world.
Were we to think of what it was for Schumann, Adenauer, Degasperi and, even earlier during the course of the last thousand years, from Dante to Victor Hugo, from Cattaneo to Spinelli – that the unity of the European peoples marks a step forward, it lies also within our possibility to contribute. And this is the moment: it is urgent to begin to reopen the debate in every venue, to go in-depth on the topics on the board, to confront each other without fear even with those who declare themselves to be skeptics, to seek together the best paths to make the ‘old continent’ re-blossom and make it possible for Europe to once again offer – much better than in the past, a new vision of peace – its own contribution to the entire planet.
We could use the imminent elections for the renewal of the European Parliament as a springboard for a re-launching of the political reasons and objectives of the European Union.
Through this very site we are making it possible to keep the dialogue high and heated. The mppu centres in Europe are committed to promoting, sustaining and spreading initiatives.
Fundamental pivot of the culture of unity inspiring us, and for which we work, is a new word in politics which we have been rediscovering in all of its strength still very recently: mutual love: “after thousands of years of history during which we have experienced the fruits of violence and hate, we have the right to ask that humanity begins to experience what could be the fruits of love. Not only of love among the single individuals but also between peoples. (…) Let each one look deep into his/her own heart: then question oneself on the personal contribution that could be given, so that no human being need feel a stranger towards this ‘gestation of a new world” (Chiara Lubich, 1988).
This is why we are voting for Europe, with a farseeing view that puts new resources and experiences, already taking place, into the network, to make place on the world scene for a new humanism of which European peoples can be agents.
Let’s vote for its “Unity in diversity”- as its motto says, to give strength to the “new”, where stories and positions are respected, where they enter into dialogue and open up new scenarios for shared development. Let us vote for the task of peace that Europe has had from its very origins.
