Europe must use the opportunity of the Conference on the Future of Europe to change and become able to take responsibility.
“The survival of the EU depends on its ability to adapt to external changes. In this respect, the tragedy in
“In this moment the EU”, continues GOZI, “is committed to the process of the Conference on the future of Europe, to discuss without taboos the changes needed to adapt Europe’s capacity to act to the challenges of the present day. It is clear that what is happening in Afghanistan should also make us reflect. The United States has been criticised, but NATO’s indecision and improvisation are also blatant. This means that we Europeans must become autonomous and acquire the ability to fight to protect our values and interests. The goal we must set ourselves is to build a European sovereignty, through a federal political union, proceeding with the states that believe in this project. Concretely, this means to share at European level some key competences in the economic and political fields, to create a federal budget, to build a real common foreign policy – starting from the ever-closer cooperation to prepare also in this field the federal transition – and to create an army of the European Union, to achieve a proper strategic autonomy in defence and security.”
“The Conference on the future of Europe”, GOZI concludes, “is an opportunity that we cannot risk missing, all the more so when a tragedy like this one of the Afghan people shows us the urgency to change in order to act and take control of the political processes. Our political future and our very civilisation are really at stake“.
Anna Echterhoff,
UEF Secretary General