{"id":463156,"date":"2026-08-26T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/08\/26\/metsola-a-rimini-in-europa-il-tempo-per-agire-e-adesso\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:46:27","slug":"metsola-in-rimini-now-is-europes-time-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/08\/26\/metsola-in-rimini-now-is-europes-time-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Metsola in Rimini: Now is Europe\u2019s time to act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cThe speed at which the world has changed leaves us with only two paths: the countries of the European Union can either lead this change together or face their own decline alone.\u201d
\nThe reason? \u201cThe comforting refuge of a third way \u2014 ambiguous and in\u2011between \u2014 no longer exists.\u201d These were the remarks<\/a> of the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola<\/strong>, in Rimini today (26 August) to take part in the \u201cEurope, Preserving our roots, accelerating the future<\/a>\u201d meeting. The event took place as part of Meeting for Friendship between Peoples<\/a>, the festival founded in 1980 by members of the Catholic movement Communion and Liberation<\/span>. The president gave a speech following the official welcome addresses by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani<\/strong>, and the president of the Meeting for Friendship amongst Peoples Foundation ETS, Bernhard Scholz<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Metsola reiterated that the war in Ukraine, artificial intelligence, floods, wildfires, competitiveness, reindustrialisation, energy, immigration, security and the cost of living are all challenges that \u201cno Member State can manage better on its own.\u201d<\/strong> It is not a question of \u201cpolitical affiliations or ideology,\u201d but \u201cof understanding whether we are ready to find the courage to respond to what this historic moment demands of us.\u201d Europe must therefore recognise that \u201cthe time to act is now,\u201d in a world \u201cwhere there are still too many tyrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

While acknowledging that there are issues \u201cwhere we can improve,\u201d the President outlined some of the European Parliament\u2019s most \u201ccontentious\u201d issues. Concerning businesses, she stressed the need to adopt \u201cambitious measures to cut red tape, support, and revitalise our manufacturing sector, and help European businesses to grow.\u201d The aim is to \u201cbridge the gap between an idea and its entry onto the market, bring industrial production back to Europe and build the industrial champions of tomorrow.\u201d The President noted that \u201cthe current fragmentation is causing us to lose our productive strength to the benefit of China and other competitors, in exchange for short-term gains.\u201d She also implicitly criticised \u201crecent European packaging regulations, which impose rigid and counterproductive burdens on European small and medium-sized enterprises<\/strong>,\u201d describing them as \u201cproposals that end up hindering rather than helping.\u201d For this reason, she announced that the European Parliament will take steps in the coming weeks to \u201crectify this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding artificial intelligence, the Maltese minister stated that \u201ca more competitive and better-connected continent is the only way to enable Europe to remain at the forefront of the technological revolution that has transformed every aspect of our lives.\u201d However, Europe must not remain \u201ca mere spectator in the global race for artificial intelligence,\u201d but must \u201cplay its part\u201d with a perspective that is \u201cneither American nor Chinese.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This approach must also be applied to immigration: \u201cIn the European Parliament, we are building a system that really works: one that is fair and humane, but also firm and efficient,\u201d she explained, clarifying that the system currently in place aims to \u201cprotect borders and combat the criminal networks of traffickers who exploit the most vulnerable\u201d while allowing \u201cresources to be channelled to those who really need them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metsola concluded her speech reaffirming that only \u201ca Europe that knows how to put people before any institution, any market, and any border\u201d will be able to \u201ccontinue to respond to citizens\u2019 concerns, businesses\u2019 ambitions, the hopes of young people,\u201d promising that the European Parliament would earn the trust of its citizens through \u201chard work and delivering results.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the event entitled \u201cEurope, Preserving our roots, accelerating the future\u201d, the President of the European Parliament called for action in a constantly changing world where \u201cthere are too many tyrants\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":463131,"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","show_comment_section":"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":[26180,26324,35459,25821,29287,25916,26752,25755,29049,26949,26160,31932,26326,29842],"class_list":["post-463156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-agenda-europea-immigrazione","tag-artificial-intelligence-en","tag-frontiere-and","tag-cina-en","tag-imprese-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-alluvioni-en","tag-incendi-en","tag-metsolaand","tag-rimini-en","tag-states-united-en","tag-war-in-ucraine-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463156","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\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463157,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463156\/revisions\/463157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}