To raise a new hope, we stick to our Christian Democratic heritage, especially to the Catholic and Protestant social teaching time-tested for two thousand years, based on stewardship, personalism, subsidiarity, responsibility and solidarity. These questions urge Christian Democracy, the political force that has been the main engine of European integration in recent decades, to reinforce and get back to driving meaningful change.
Certainly, Europe is still the continent with the highest development indicators in the world, but it is struggling to find its place in the face of the major powers whose rising influence defies multilateralism and our democracies, the heirs of twenty-five centuries of history, are challenged in their ability to control their destiny. Interdependencies are no longer seen only as a source of security, but also as a source of insecurity. To add to these emergences, the pandemic that marked the year 2020 has revealed Europe’s industrial and technological dependence in many strategic areas. China, for example, with the Silk Road project, expresses a new economic and geopolitical ambition. The European Union remains the world's second largest economic power, but we face strong competition from other global powers, both in terms of economic influence and challenges to our political system and, in some cases, to our very values and principles. Nowadays these progresses are challenged it is our responsibility and our duty to safeguard the achievements of the past. Our continent has built new paths to get to its present shape, which without being perfect is a model well regarded across the world. Over the last decades, people were raised out of poverty instances of war, famine and disease decreased. The recent wave of terrorist attacks in our countries confirms the timeliness of the threat.Īt this moment in history, Europe is at a crossroads. The inability to act effectively in the face of these challenges is giving rise to a deep political crisis: in a context of reservations towards their representatives, European societies seem to be breaking down into divided communities, which makes the possibility of democratic dialogue harder. The ecological crisis is threatening what makes our world habitable. A long-term economic crisis is leading many to question globalisation.
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