Premier Matteo Renzi said Tuesday
that his government will work to help the European Union
rediscover its true values.
The union is facing big challenges with the asylum-seeker
crisis and the possibility that Britain will leave it.
"What is happening in Austria should make us reflect,"
Renzi said in his enews referring to the political crisis in
Vienna, where Social Democratic Chancellor Werner Faymann has
been forced to quit despite pledging a tough stance on migrants
and threatening to introduce controls at the border with Italy.
"If the political world gives in to fear, those who
manufacture monsters become invincible".
"The public end up following the ghosts of their own
fears and they close the door to hope, courage, the future...
"Come on Europe! You were conceived by pursuing an ideal,
not by feeding a threat.
"We Italians will do everything to ensure that Europe
returns to being itself again".
Last week Pope Francis berated the union for having lost
its way as he called for the EU to be more welcoming to
migrants.
"What has happened to you, the Europe of humanism, the
champion of human rights, democracy and freedom?," he said after
receiving the prestigious Charlemagne Prize in the Vatican.
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