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French President Emmanuel Macron and European Union leaders are meeting Sunday in Strasbourg for a Conference on the Future of Europe. Macron defended the “European model” and called for a unified response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Macron kicked off the Conference on the Future of Europe on Europe Day, an annual event to celebrate the unity of the 27-nation bloc. The French president set the tone for the conference, which includes a consultation with EU citizens, by lauding the “European model” and calling for a unified response to the ongoing pandemic, a year before the next presidential election in France.
Europe is routinely criticised “with a sort of defeatism that says, ‘Look, Europe has not risen to the occasion”, Macron said. “I say on the contrary, it is the European model that has proven itself in this crisis,” he insisted, adding that Europe “resisted the pandemic together” because of its 71 years of shared history.
Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration of May 9, 1950, which proposed a new form of political cooperation for Europe.
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