Sassoli, Prodi: “With mildness he convinced everyone. Great loss”
Romano Prodi praises David Sassoli, the former Prime Minister speaks of the serious lack of the man and the politician, who passed away yesterday at the age of 65 following one severe disease of the immune system. “It would have been – says Prodi to Repubblica – a resource for the future of Italian and European politics“The former prime minister recalls that the last dinner together was a Bologna last fall, about the high school mate and friend of all time, the cardinal Matteo Zuppi. “In a profound way, we were united by a common feeling. We often talked to each other, we ‘confessed’ about Europe. When it was better, after the pneumonia, under Christmas, we have agreed to close a cycle of conferences, in February. Nobody thought that one could happen similar tragedy“.
“There mildness – continues Prodi to Repubblica – era his great strength. With it, David convinced everyone of the goodness of his ideas. His presidency had been so conciliatory that not a small number of people thought it was worth breaking the tradition that sees the alternation, at the presidency of Parliament, between socialists and Christian Democrats. battle that breaks the schemes and agreements that hold the thread of European solidarity ‘. But it wasn’t there in his words, I can assure you, no bitterness“. As for the Next Generation Eu the professor says: “Sassoli brought this political formation with him to the European Parliament Recovery Plan it was for him a path taken by which it will not be possible to go back: European solidarity not as an episode, or a parenthesis, but as the beginning of a turning point towards a new way for Europe.
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