“It was moving to see those scenes in Budapest young people spontaneously and joyfully waving the European flag chanting for a future built on freedom on democracy on the belief that their lives in a way belong to them”. This was stated by the President of the European parliament, Roberta Metsola, during a discussion at the Paasikivi Society, on the occasion of her visit to Finland.
She went on to say that “those young people have placed their trust in our Europe and now it falls to us to show that they were right to place their trust in us, because this is what our Europe is all about. It is a living idea rooted in liberty”.
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