President Sergio Mattarella said
Friday that the European Union must be a major player on the
international arena. "In a world increasingly based on big
players, full-blown institutional giants, Europe cannot give up
its role and its possibility for influence and make itself
smaller," Mattarella said during a lunch at the presidential
palace with speakers of EU parliaments. "The EU sometimes shows
insufficient capacity to respond in a convincing, effective way
to the demands and expectations of its people".
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