{"id":427339,"date":"2025-05-21T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/21\/mattarella-rafforzare-consenso-attorno-ue\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T14:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:02:35","slug":"mattarella-urges-von-der-leyen-to-strengthen-social-consensus-around-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/21\/mattarella-urges-von-der-leyen-to-strengthen-social-consensus-around-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattarella urges von der Leyen to strengthen social consensus around the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Rethinking Europe and working to bring it\u00a0closer to its people. President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella<\/strong> urges the College of Commissioners to be \u201ceffective in providing quick and rational responses to the needs and legitimate concerns of our Union\u2019s citizens,<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0as it is here that the future of the twelve-star project is at stake.\u00a0\u201cThe more transparent and efficient the EU institutions prove to be, the stronger the necessary\u00a0social consensus<\/strong> becomes,\u201d is the message the Head of State delivered to the entire European Commission and its President, Ursula von der Leyen, on the second day of his official visit to the EU capital.<\/p>\n

According to Mattarella, Europe’s legitimacy and meaning are essential elements for the future. Europeanism is needed because we are living through “a truly decisive historical moment for our Union,” the Head of State warned. “This historical moment calls us to retrace the path taken over these decades and, while aware of shortcomings and delays, to feel pride in the European project<\/strong> that we have all helped build.”<\/p>\n

No reconsideration or hesitation \u2014 the EU is not, and cannot be, called into question. On the contrary, the President of the Republic tells all members of the European Commission:
\n\u201cWe must start from this awareness to reflect on the future of the continental integration project<\/strong> in a historical moment that is so turbulent and exposed to multiple, even unforeseen, disruptions to the international order.\u201d This order must continue to be based on rules and be \u201crespectful of peoples and the equal dignity among nations.\u201d Mattarella urges that this necessary reflection be \u201coriented toward action and concreteness, to safeguard the authority and prestige of the European Union in the world,<\/strong> and to promote its interests and values.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the global relaunch of the EU, Mattarella can already count on the intentions of von der Leyen, who is determined to give the European Union an entirely\u00a0new role in the world.<\/a>\u00a0The President of the European Commission is also fully aware of the importance of believing in and insisting on Europe\u2019s centrality. She made a point of thanking Mattarella for his character and commitment in this regard. \u201cToday, we welcome you here not only as a statesman but also as a European at heart,\u201d said von der Leyen, offering praise and gratitude: \u201cThroughout your life, you have always worked to put Italy at the center of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The President of the Republic urges the European executive to provide concrete answers to citizens. “A decisive moment for the Union, to be efficient and safeguard it in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":427319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26180,25815,31257,30188,31262,31247,31280,31279,25921],"class_list":["post-427339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bruxelles-en-3","tag-mattarella-en","tag-von-der-leyen-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427375,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427339\/revisions\/427375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}