"This summit is very important to reaffirm that Europe is above all a civilization, founded on values such as freedom and equality among people. There is not a Series A and a Series B Europe, but a Europe that, as John Paul II said, needs to breathe with two lungs: a Western one and an Eastern one. All this takes on significance at the moment we are here, in the present context". Thus spoke Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from Chisinau, where she attended the European Political Community summit yesterday. "We find ourselves here with President Zelensky, and therefore with Ukraine, at a time when Kiev is defending the value of freedom," she added, "We do so here in Moldova, another threatened nation, which would itself have been involved in a kind of domino if the Ukrainians had not defended themselves as they are doing. We're also doing this at a time when, for better or worse, those crises have exposed critical issues, including in Europe, in terms of energy supply and interconnectivity". "I believe that today's message is above all one of true openness to those nations that are European and want to be European in full: Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, the Western Balkans. All challenges not of entry into the European Union but of 'reunification' that Italy supports, and so I think today's meeting is much more than symbolic value," Meloni concluded.
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