Europeans, Cottarelli endorsa Calenda: “I support the ‘We are Europeans’ list to strengthen the EU”

The endorsement of the former IMF commissioner and senator arrives Carlo Cottarelli per Carlo Calendar. “These European elections are fundamental for the future of our continent and for the future of Italy – said Cottarelli speaking in a video message at the opening of the electoral campaign of the “We are Europeans” list of Action, underway in Milan –. The choice seems quite clear to me, there are those who want to strengthen the European institutions and who think that in the long term Europe should become a federal state, on the other hand there are those who want to weaken these institutions because they want the so-called Europe of Nations, because he thinks that Europe is a kind of chess club where we find ourselves doing some things together because it is better to do them together at that moment, but where we don’t think as pro-Europeans but as Italians, French, Germans, Luxembourgers, etc. ”.

“I think that without strengthening the European institutions, our continent would become increasingly irrelevant in a now globalized world in which the American, Chinese and soon Indian superpowers predominate because they too have the numbers. Strengthening the European institutions means first everything to have a European budget at least 7-8 times larger than the current one, to have a European army, a European foreign policy, a European industrial policy”.

“It means having a stronger European Parliament with the possibility of initiating legislation, it means eliminating unanimity voting in the Council, it means tripling the funds of the Erasmus program to create European citizens who feel truly European, it means defending the rule of law in all the countries of the European Union, it means having a united response to the problems and also to the opportunities offered by migration. All these things are in the program of the We are Europeans list to which I will give my vote and which I will support in this electoral campaign”, he concluded. Cottarelli.