"The European integration is the noblest political movement in the history of the continent": Peter Sutherland, ex MEP and ex managing director of the World Trade Organisation, brought to the Comece Congress his professional experience with the report "Cooperating on an international level". The speaker insisted on the need "to recover the memory" of the EU and its "ability to overcome the divisions and hatreds of the past to build the longest period of peace ever experienced on the continent". "In future, the European Union will be the instrument to go beyond nationalisms and tribalism on one side, and globalisation on the other side". Sutherland stated that between the European countries "one can see shared attitudes in terms of multilateralism, the fight against poverty, welfare, the defence of the environment… These, and other strong points of the European integration, are sound principles deriving from Christianity". From these, the speaker sees "proof of the deep bond between the Europe of today and the Europe of yesterday" and therefore of the relevance of the historical and cultural roots of the continent.
