15
Sep
2021
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State of the Union (debate)
Madam President, I say to President von der Leyen: in 2019 as a candidate for the office you are holding right now, you said in this plenary, and I quote: ‘the foundation of our European civilisation is Greek philosophy and Roman law’. What you did not mention in that speech is the fundamental role that Christianity, and implicitly the Judeo-Christian values, had in developing the European civilis…