The most dangerous threat to Europe is not the withdrawal of individual states from the European Union, but populism and neo-Nazism, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has stated.
“All these forms of populism and neo-Nazism, concealed behind alleged patriotism, have one goal: to revive the nightmares of the past, the nightmares that destroyed Europe and almost the whole world. Therefore, we must struggle to ensure that these forces do not pass,” Pavlopoulos said after the Arraiolos Group summit in Riga.
According to him, Europeans must decide what kind of Europe they want to see.
“The future of the European Union, literally, is being decided, and we hope that this threat will not pass, and we hope that the peoples of Europe will unanimously say: No pasaran!” the Greek president said.
Pavlopoulos added that all the participants of the summit consider the upcoming elections to the European Parliament in May 2019 to be among the most critical since the creation of the eurozone, as the “nightmare of neo-Nazism” is reviving.