David Sassoli saw the 12 years spent in the European Parliament as the "most beautiful adventure of his life. And with his smile from this face he will continue to tell his faith in the European dream".
So Alessandra Vittorini, with her voice broken by her emotion, recalled her husband on the occasion of the ceremony held to inaugurate the photo of her portrait by David Sassoli from today on display in the gallery of the former presidents of the European Parliament set up in the Brussels office .
"Thanks to David - Mrs. Vittorini said again - this house has become a little bit our home and we have learned to have a different vision of the world".
The ceremony was attended by the current president of the Pe, the Maltese Roberta Matsola.
"David Sassoli - he said - will always be remembered as a true European leader, a champion of democracy who was able to guide this assembly stoically through what could have been an existential crisis were it not for his steadfast leadership. The pandemic. global - he added - has tested the legislative and verification role of the European Parliament. It has not been easy. But with Sassoli at the helm there has never been a democratic discontinuity ".
