“The President of the European Parliament David Sassoli passed away at 1.15 am on 11 January at the CRO in Aviano (PN) where he was hospitalized. The date and place of the funeral will be announced in the next few hours”. This is what Davide Sassoli’s spokesman, Roberto Cuillo, announced in a note. Only yesterday was the news of his hospitalization communicated due to the onset of a serious complication due to a dysfunction of the immune system.
Ansa recalls the speech that David Sassoli made in his inauguration speech to the presidency of the EU Parliament.
It was July 3, 2019:
“We must have the strength to relaunch our integration process, changing our Union to make it capable of responding more strongly to the needs of our citizens and to give true answers to their concerns, to their ever more widespread sense of bewilderment. defense and promotion of our founding values of freedom, dignity and solidarity must be pursued every day inside and outside the EU “, were the words of Sassoli, who called everyone to the need to recover” the spirit of Ventotene and the momentum pioneering of the Founding Fathers, who were able to put aside the hostilities of war, put an end to the failures of nationalism by giving us a project capable of combining peace, democracy, rights, development and equality “.
“In recent months – Sassoli had warned – too many have bet on the decline of this project, fueling divisions and conflicts that we thought were a sad reminder of our history”.
“Let it be clear to everyone that in Europe no government can kill, that the value of the person and his or her dignity are our way of measuring our policies. That in our country no one can shut the mouth of the opponents, that our governments and institutions that represent them are the fruit of democracy and free elections. That no one can be condemned for their religious, political, philosophical faith. That with us girls and boys can travel, study, love without constraints “, Sassoli said to the its first plenary in Strasbourg, according to reports from the Ansa news agency.
David Sassoli was 65 years old: he was born in Florence on May 30, 1956, and had been a historical face of TG1.