“” No one falls in love with a common market, “Jacques Delor had rightly said. And he was right. OR Europe It is – and it must be – much more: the anxiety for peace, its social model, the protection of human rights, the collective hope for progress and justice, “he says in his message about her Europe’s Day the Nikos Androulakis.

“But today the Union is in danger of losing its soul: with deepening inequalities, addictions to critical areas and the quality of democracy being degraded,” he added.

“It is not enough to defend Europe. We must, as Democrats and progressive, transform it. With common steps towards political and economic integration, with a single, reliable European defense policy. Institutional initiatives in matters of foreign policy and defense must reflect solidarity between peoples and therefore in common architecture, third countries, which produce instability and threatening member states, should not participate in common architecture. ”

“We have a duty to fight for a continent, with strategic autonomy in a world of uncertainty, which intensifies revisionism and challenging international law. For a peoples Europe, with social justice, collective security and perspective for future generations, “his president concluded PASOK.