(ANSA) - ROME, 11 JAN - "I want to remember Sassoli above all as a man at the service of Europe, its institutions, its citizens. As President of the European Parliament, his ability to combine idealism and mediation made him protagonist of one of the most difficult of recent history. An attentive and authoritative voice, in defense of European values and the rights of the weakest ".
Prime Minister MarioDraghi said this when speaking at the commemoration of David Sassoli in the Aulaalla Camera.
"In his speeches Sassoli drew his Europe: representative, effective, supportive. It is in Parliament that Europe grows and strengthens".
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