An important message from our co-chairs! Our celebration is bittersweet:
Putin's illegal and unprovoked war of aggression . . .

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Mélanie Vogel & Thomas Waitz

Co-Chairs of the European Green Party

Dear John,

 

Happy Europe Day!

 

73 years ago, on 9 May 1950, the Schuman declaration marked the beginning
of the most ambitious peace project on the continent, a project aimed at
making war in Europe "not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible".

Today, we celebrate the peace and unity that we have managed to secure in
the European Union over the past decades.

 

However, our celebration is bittersweet: Putin's illegal and unprovoked war
of aggression has brought war back to the European continent, with
devastating consequences for the Ukrainian people. His war is also an
attack on the values that define us as Europeans: democracy, human rights,
and freedom, and an attempt to destabilise the very thing we celebrate
today: unity in Europe. 

 

Following the invasion, the EU was swiftly unified in its condemnation of
Putin's war and in support of Ukraine. Despite Putin’s hopes to divide
Europe by weaponising Europe’s energy supply, the EU demonstrated
resilience and held firm in the face of adversity time and time again.

 

As Greens, we have stood united and have shaped common answers both at the
national and European levels. Our support to the Ukrainian resistance will
continue for as long as it takes and as much as it is needed.

But this war is also a pressing reminder that, to keep up to the European
dream, maintain its peace promise and deliver on shared prosperity, the
European Union must deliver on challenges that have become even more
pressing with this war.

 

73 years ago, the pooling of coal and steel production was the tool to
serve peace and solidarity.

 

Today more than ever, making our continent independent from fossil fuels,
meeting the goals of the Paris agreement thanks to massive investment in
the just green transition, countering social inequalities and fighting
internal attacks on democracy, is the only way to deliver on the original
peace promise of the European project and ensure sustainable shared
prosperity.

 

Today more than ever, for the European dream to become true, for Europe to
be able to protect its values, to maintain peace, to organise our economy
within the planet boundaries, and to make sure no one is left behind,
Europe must go green.

 

IN SOLIDARITY,

 

MÉLANIE VOGEL, THOMAS WAITZ

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