Polish PM joins European Union heads to sign Rome declaration

UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s absence from the celebratory summit, marking 60 years since the Treaty of Rome created the bedrock for the European Union, highlights the division and sense of pessimism that’s gripping the 28-nation club. We will allow for the necessary room for manoeuvre at the various levels to strengthen Europe’s innovation and growth potential.

Attending were the heads of the 27 countries which will remain in the Union, as well as top EU officials, including European Council president Donald Tusk.

Fissolo says he understands the nationalist impulse to put up borders when there have been terror attacks across Europe, but he also sees the desire for more security as an opportunity for the EU.

Pro-EU Liberal Democrat Party leader Tim Farron was among those who addressed the protesters at the square. “We will in the future have to concern ourselves above all with the issue of jobs”, she told reporters.

Demonstrators hold a placard during an anti Brexit, pro-European Union (EU) march in London on March 25, 2017, ahead of the British government’s planned triggering of Article 50 next week.

“If we leave them alone-Bosnia Herzegovina, Republika Srpska, Macedonia, Albania, all those countries – we will have war again”, he added.

European Union leaders declared that they will commit to the Rome Agenda, and pledge to work towards four key objectives: A safe and secure Europe, a prosperous and sustainable Europe, a social Europe, and a stronger Europe on the global scene.

Tusk, too, warned against the impression the European Union was about petty regulations: “Why should we lose our trust in the goal of unity today?” Is it only because it has become our reality?

Today, he said, politicians are guided instead by fear and crises and fall prey to egotistical populism that “hems people in and prevents them from overcoming and looking beyond their own narrow vision”.

“As much as they are daunting, today’s challenges are not at all comparable to those faced by our founding fathers”, Junker said, referring to the fact that Europe’s integration process stemmed from the huge destruction of the World War II. We have not forgotten the wars and extremism that ruined our continent before Europeans finally made a decision to unite their forces to create peace and prosperity instead.

As ever, being a British protest, one of the highlights is the wide array of incredibly imaginative signs on display. But in recent years, “Europe has been too slow to act on immigration, growth and jobs”, he said.

She added: “They are signing a document today, they are taking handsome pictures in a attractive city – all of these things to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome and to embark on a fearless new world without the United Kingdom after Brexit”.

But for Maximilien De-Wyse, 26, from the northern French city of Lille, that was the wrong answer.

Pro- and anti-EU protests took place in Rome, while in London tens of thousands of people marched against Brexit, which May will trigger on Wednesday.