Archbishop Hérouard: Europe must show solidarity with vulnerable people!

Giada Aquilino - Vatican CityAfter the launch of the Recovery Fund to face the coronavirus emergency in Europe, the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (Comece) urges the Old Continent to show compactness and solidarity.With the Commission's document on social affairs, COMECE focuses on the issue of social justice: "an ambitious recovery plan would be a visible sign that the EU and its Member States are once again on the path of solidarity » .

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The text takes up the prayer of Pope Francis during the mass at the Maison Sainte-Marthe last April 22, so that “Europe succeeds in having a fraternal unity of which its founding fathers dreamed” . Mgr Antoine Hérouard, president of the Social Affairs Commission of Comece and auxiliary bishop of Lille, discusses the priorities of this European reconstruction.“Our call is also to rediscover this spirit of the founding fathers, because we have seen that Europe in this crisis did not show, at least at the beginning, a sign of unity, of fraternity: each country acted somewhat alone, leaving behind the countries most in difficulty, I am thinking in particular of Italy when the epidemic began. Our wish now is to salute the effort and the will that seem to be manifested by the declaration of the European Commission and the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to take a very important step to create more concrete solidarity at economic, social and financial.