San Marino-EU agreement, Gdc: “Europe is a train we cannot afford to miss”
“2023: a date that will set the balance for our country. We young people believe that by that date it is necessary to reach the conclusion of the Association Agreement with the European Union ”.
I affirm it Young Christian Democrats of San Marinowho, through a perspective, address an invitation to the Sammarine political forces, the majority and the opposition, the Republic, asking for the right vision to channel “a step forward”.
“Nowadays looking around us, we do not seem to see a political class capable of fielding a strong and comprehensive vision of our country. A speech that is valid both for the majority forces and for those of opposition.
A vision capable of going beyond daily needs, contingency and short-term planning, to lead San Marino towards the future that awaits it, made up of epochal challenges and changes that can no longer be postponed. A future to be built, piece by piece, with the prudence and wisdom that were already of our grandparents, called to put their hand to a nation devastated by war.
To do this, however, to build that future, it is necessary that the current political and ruling class renew their way of acting and thinking, with a view to greater concreteness, having perfectly in mind the achievement of the common good, and no longer of small party interests.
A political class, therefore, that no longer limits itself to carrying out an exercise in the management of power, but lays the foundations for a very long-term project. Precisely the absence of these particularities, concretizes and focus on the good of the country, have led in our opinion over time to the decay of our institutions and therefore to an obligatory removal of people from politics, extinguishing the desire to participate but also putting a stop to that generational change which is fundamental for the growth of a Republic like San Marino.
We have the opportunity to show that times have changed, that the political class is ready to change. The opportunity is given to us by the Association Agreement with the European Union. In the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament we have understood how vital it is that the agreement is closed by 2023.
We young people make an appeal to those who sit in the Great and General Council and to the Government. This is the goal we must work towards, with the utmost involvement of all, including the opposition political forces, which deserve to have a role in this delicate process.
Let us not let the appeals of Anis and other trade associations fall on deaf ears which, together with the trade unions, have abandoned us several times what an Association agreement would mean for the economy of our country, with an adjustment under the regulatory profile that allow us to seize important opportunities but also to attract companies, skills, and to open ourselves to an immense market.
Europe is a train we cannot afford to miss. We think of the thousands of opportunities that we have closed to ourselves in recent years due to our hybrid status. Think, for example, of the incredible links in Italy to the PNRR, or the possibility of accessing non-repayable loans for the construction of major fund works.
Alongside this, there is another theme, that of reforms. For a long time the politicians continued to praise them, but now the time has come to roll up our sleeves, and the time to start defining them, with a view to real integration with Europe.
Association Agreement and Reforms these are the two challenges that now, on our part, want a change of pace, a propulsive spurt: if we are unable to find the right unity, then the country is destined to remain stuck at the stake who knows for how long “.