We European citizens,
considering that
- European unification has ensured peace for half a century, unprecedented levels of prosperity, consolidation of democracy and has represented a model for the whole planet;
- however, owing to the global financial and economic crisis, people's disaffection towards the European project has grown;
- the gap between citizens and EU institutions depends mainly on the austerity policies without development, without democratic consent and without equity and on the inability of the EU to speak with one voice in the world and to face the dramatic domestic and international security problems;
- the restart of the construction of the European unity needs that consent towards the European project be regained;
