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goodbye david, dreamer of europe
goodbye david, dreamer of europe
The Liceo Scientifico Statale Leonardo Da Vinci commemorates, with a minute of silence at 12.00 AM, in conjunction with the State Funeral in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome, the defunct President of the European Parliament, David Maria Sassoli (1956-2022). A kind, open and committed figure in the European project.
Born in 1956, Florentine by birth and Roman by adoption, David Sassoli was an important face of Italian journalism and television, from the columns of “Il Tempo” to the TG1 conduction. In 1989 he witnessed one of the most crucial events of the Cold War: the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, which he directly participated in, picking up the wall that had divided Germany since 1961.
In the European elections of 2009, he went into politics with the Democratic Party, on the proposal of Secretary Dario Franceschini and became MEP, the most voted in the circumscription of Central Italy (Tuscany, Marche, Umbria, and Lazio), becoming the party leader in the European Parliament. He is reconfirmed for two more terms. From 2014 to 2019 he held the role of Vice-President of the European Parliament, with responsibility for Mediterranean Policy, Budget, and Heritage. On July 3rd, 2019, he was elected President of the European Parliament with 345 votes. With his inauguration speech, he highlighted the strengths of the European project and its fundamental values such as peace, democracy, equality, press freedom, and diversity. His was a strong invitation to recover the spirit of the Ventotene Manifesto, to change the period of stasis that has plagued the Union in recent years, to combat poverty, and address the challenges of the global agenda such as climate change, gender equality, and the digital revolution.
Unfortunately, President Sassoli had been fighting for some months against Legionella pneumonia, which had led him to the hospitalization in Strasbourg and to subsequent medical examinations and hospitalizations.
As Liceo Da Vinci, we express our utmost condolences to the Sassoli family, colleagues, collaborators, and friends of the president, remembering him with a part of his inauguration speech in 2019.
“...The European Union is not an accident of History. I am the son of a man who fought against other Europeans at the age of twenty, and I am the son of a mother who, also in her twenties, left her home and found refuge with other families.
I know that this is the story of many of your families too... and I also know that if we shared our stories and told them over a glass of beer, we would never say that we are the children or grandchildren of an accident in History. But we would say that our story is written on the pain, on the blood of young British exterminated on the beaches of Normandy, on the desire for freedom of Sophie and Hans Scholl, on the anxiety of justice of the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto, on the springs repressed with carts armed in our Eastern countries, on the desire for fraternity that we find every time the moral conscience requires us not to renounce our humanity and obedience cannot be considered a virtue ”.
Bye, David! May the earth be light on you.
Marco Bini 5C
14 gennaio 2022
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