Inauguration of the room "Aldo Moro" in presence of Martin SCHULZ, EP President, Dario FRANCESCHINI, Italian Minister of Culture, Maria Fida MORO, daughter of Aldo Moro, Enrico GASBARRA (S&amp;D, IT) and Antonio TAJANI (EPP, IT).

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TAJANI, Antonio (EPP, IT)

ceremony

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SCHULZ, Martin (S&D, DE)

MORO, Aldo (IT)

GASBARRA, Enrico (S&D, IT)

Inauguration of the room "Aldo Moro" in presence of Martin SCHULZ, EP President and Dario Franceschini, Italian Minister of Culture

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SOUNDBITE (Italian), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, It is more than ever necessary to give recognition to one of the greatest statesman of the twentieth century, who strengthened Italy and Europe, in a time of great turbulences and challenges, and who paid the insanity of the homicidal terrorism of the Brigate Rosse with his life.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, The European Council once was an institution with the aim of strengthening integration, now it became a sort of permanent-crises cell, challenging the refugee emergency, Grexit, Brexit and saving the Eurozone. While European Summits once had the purpose of reinforcing the European project, developing, for example, the direct elections of the European Parliament, now they have the goal to avoid disaster.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, The European Union needs to recover its vision, energy and strategy. Like the one that inspired our founding fathers and the ones after them, like Moro, who continued strengthening the institutions to their legitimacy.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, Moro didn't accept that circumstances and tactical consideration could influence his political agenda. Moro lived politics as an attempt to strengthen values, widening rights and to ensure that the state, the constitution and the institutions would be the core of the political life of a country in which all the Italians could actually feel represented.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Dario FRANCESCHINI , Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism , There is a famous sentence he love to repeat: "Nobody is asked to choose whether to be in Europe or in the Mediterranean, because all of Europe is in the Mediterranean."

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Dario FRANCESCHINI , Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism , Dialogue with the south, but as well dialogue between East and West. The masterpiece of diplomacy on human rights that he created to make sure that human rights would be respected on both sides of the Iron Curtain. A seed the contributed to strengthen the dynamics that, among other historical reasons, led to the fall of the Berlin wall.

Ceremony of the inauguration of the Aldo Moro room. The Plate with its name is unveiled. (2 Shots)

Cutaway with Maria Fida Moro, daughter of Aldo Moro,

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Enrico GASBARRA (S&amp;D, IT), The memory of Moro cannot be limited to the last dramatic days of his kidnapping. Today it is necessary to be able to fully confront the thought, the political venture, the moral weight, the dialogue strategies of the Christian Democrat representative. Europe represents an important crossroad in Aldo Moro's vision. He believed, as he said during his last speech in the Chamber of Members, the European vision to be intrinsic in the Italian population.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Antonio TAJANI (EPP, IT), Europe and the European Parliament are necessarily the place where the political debate will have to develop, the place where to transfer our views and discuss them.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Antonio TAJANI (EPP, IT), In that speech he also talked about Great Britain and he fought, and Italy is still fighting, to not allow for Great Britain to be left out of Europe because without the United Kingdom Europe would have been, in some way, mutilated. These were Moro's words.