Martin Schulz: in 2015 Europe discovered a world in trouble
by Emanuele Bonini
Finally Europe realised to be not a fortress, finally Europe understood to be nothing but a region in trouble in a world in trouble. Migrants and bombing attacks had woken the EU up from the dream of a magic land where everything appeared as possible and problems just somebody's else business. This is what the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, has clear in his mind after the year 2015, as explained in this short interview.
President Schulz, is the EU in war?
«This year, the year 2015, marked a turning point in the EU policy. We have started the year with a terrorist attack (that one against Charlie Hebdo, in France, edit.) and we closed the year with the commemoration of the victims of other attack».
What is this turning point marked in 2015?
«In my eyes in the European citizens there has been a more and more awareness of the challenges we have in front of us, more and more awareness of the fact that we are in a global world with global challenges we can't escape. There are terror and migrants, but not only this. We live in a world with problems. Of course world can be made better, but many things we wanted to achieve haven't been achieved, and many things we wanted to improve have worsened».
The EU-Turkey agreement on migration can solve European problems?
«Turkey is a partner country of the European Union, and the agreement reached on Sunday is about Syrian refugees. We have to find a solution for the situation in Turkey, where refugees are safe».
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Finally Europe realised to be not a fortress, finally Europe understood to be nothing but a region in trouble in a world in trouble. Migrants and bombing attacks had woken the EU up from the dream of a magic land where everything appeared as possible and problems just somebody's else business. This is what the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, has clear in his mind after the year 2015, as explained in this short interview.
President Schulz, is the EU in war?
«This year, the year 2015, marked a turning point in the EU policy. We have started the year with a terrorist attack (that one against Charlie Hebdo, in France, edit.) and we closed the year with the commemoration of the victims of other attack».
What is this turning point marked in 2015?
«In my eyes in the European citizens there has been a more and more awareness of the challenges we have in front of us, more and more awareness of the fact that we are in a global world with global challenges we can't escape. There are terror and migrants, but not only this. We live in a world with problems. Of course world can be made better, but many things we wanted to achieve haven't been achieved, and many things we wanted to improve have worsened».
The EU-Turkey agreement on migration can solve European problems?
«Turkey is a partner country of the European Union, and the agreement reached on Sunday is about Syrian refugees. We have to find a solution for the situation in Turkey, where refugees are safe».
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