Which Europe for the future? The answer in the conference promoted by UGCI – TraniLive.it

“On May 1, 2024, the European Union therefore “celebrated” the 20th anniversary of this enlargement: but what has really changed in Europe today?” asks Giuseppina Paracampo, president of the Ugci – Trani section

Friday, May 10, 2024

“On 1 May 2004 the European Union recorded the last major enlargement of the countries adhering to what was desired and described by Altiero Spinelli in the “Ventotene Manifesto of 1941, as a United Europe with its own Constitution, a project subsequently supported by Robert Schuman in the “Schuman Plan” on 9 May 1950 and by Jean Monnet, the European Union welcomes another 10 new countries. What is surprising is that some of the participating countries such as Estonia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Hungary are Eastern countries emerging from popular revolutions with citizens eager for a democratic life. On 1 May 2024 the European Union therefore “celebrated” the 20th anniversary of this enlargement: but what has really changed in Europe today? The East, after the famous collapses caused by the popular revolutions which overthrew the totalitarian regimes, achieved partial tranquility and democracy, the West, for its part, achieved an only apparent unity, never actually achieved. The creation of the single currency, the euro (the investigation phase for the creation of the digital euro concluded on 23 October 2023), the freedom of movement and residence of all EU citizens, which constitutes the fundamental principle of European citizenship, achieved with the Mastricht Treaty of 1992, radical changes in legislation, carried out with multiple regulations created in a short time, even if difficult to implement in some countries such as Italy” writes Giuseppina Paracampo, president of the Ugci Trani and councilor national Ugci.

“But will the union of these 27 countries really resist the current “weather”? What will be the Europe that our young people will inherit in their future? And will they be able to support and strengthen that union of countries and citizens so strongly desired in the post-war period by the “pioneers” Spinelli, Schuman and Monnet? To answer these questions, Friday 10 May at 6.30 pm will be held in Trani, at Palazzo of the Beltrani arts, the conference entitled “Which Europe for the future”. Prof. will speak. Ugo Villani, professor emeritus of international law at the University of Bari and prof. Lawyer Vincenzo Bassi, president of FAFCE, Federation of Catholic Families in Europe, vice president of UGCI.