” “In the message, the delegates pledge themselves to give their contribution "to a strong social cohesion, which is important and necessary for Europe today", while asking "that the EU be guided by the values and principles that have inspired the European unification since its very beginning, such as: human dignity, gender equality, peace and freedom, reconciliation and mutual respect, solidarity and subsidiarity, the constitutional state, the pursuit of the common good". Values that are "indispensable", especially vis-à-vis the comeback "of nationalist, racist, xenophobic trends and national selfishness". The European institutions will have to act within their jurisdictions, not within those of the other national states. And this is why "we appeal to the member states, asking them to respect life, within their democratic legislations, from conception to its natural end, and to promote the family as the natural union of a man and a woman in marriage. The respect of the civil and legal rights of the individuals must not endanger marriage and the family as the foundations of society".” “
