"I am convinced that Europeans can feel that their future is shared if they also strengthen their common identity. The European Union is doing everything to weaken this common identity." - stated Giorgia Meloni, the president of the European Conservatives and Reformers party family, at the conference series on Europe of the 21st century.
The 21st Century Institute and Member of the European Parliament Balázs Hidvéghi started a series of conferences on Europe in the 21st century. At the second conference of the series, the speakers, including Giorgia Meloni, president of the European Conservatives and Reformers party family, leader of the third strongest Italian party, the Brothers of Italy, spoke about the European unity and value perception of the right.
Giorgia Meloni said that she considers it important that right-wing forces can play a more central role in European politics. According to him, first of all, it is necessary to determine how the European people feel about the integration processes and it is necessary to point out what is not working in today's European Union.
"I fully agree with the goal of the initiative, and just like you, I am convinced that consolidating the foundations of right-wing national conservative politics and broadening and strengthening the common cultural background is the best way to be able to respond more forcefully to the challenges of today's world."
The politician also said that the idea of a United Europe is old and has its roots in three historical places, namely Athens, Rome and Jerusalem. Christianity created a kind of unity in Europe, and Brussels should recognize the Christian roots of integration for that reason alone. No political enterprise can last if the participants do not have something in common that they all feel.
"I am convinced that Europeans can feel that their future is shared if they also strengthen their common identity. The European Union is doing everything to weaken this common identity."
In his opinion, the so-called pro-Europeans pretend not to hear the critical words of many European citizens. More and more sovereignty would be transferred from the member states to Brussels, and if anyone opposes this one-way process, they will immediately be classified as anti-European. Today, this ideology guides the institutions of the union, and its social image emphasizes individualism.
"The impotence shown against mass migration was a manifestation of a thousand contradictions. In my opinion, borders give peoples an identity, from which rights and obligations follow."
The European Union must protect its external borders and cannot force its citizens to accept masses of illegal immigrants.
Only those who are really fleeing wars and persecution can claim our solidarity, the politician emphasized.
He also considers it a serious problem that left-wing parties throughout Europe, instead of working on increasing the birth rate on the continent, which is increasingly aging and struggling with a demographic crisis,
they produce theories that undermine the natural family, the foundation of our society, and deny the natural differences between men and women.
At the end of Giorgia Meloni's presentation, she emphasized that the European right must be able to find a middle ground between uncritical anti-nation-state pro-Europeanism and anti-Europeanism that denies all European values. He called the redefinition of the powers of the European Union a primary goal.
Source: hirado.hu
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