Juncker’s speech at the 2017 EPP Congress in Malta: “The time has come for convinced Europeans to stand up for Europe”

President of the European Commission Jean-Cloude Juncker yesterday delivered a speech at the 2017 EPP Congress in Malta focusing on the European Union’s achievements in the last 60 years and looking ahead towards its future: “We have had peace for 60 years, a peace which is not relative but comprehensive.”

Following the triggering of Article 50 by the United Kingdom, President Juncker highlighted the need to look forward:“Brexit is not the end of everything (…) we have to make it the beginning of something that will be new, stronger and better”.

The European Union project must now continue with “the completion of the internal market, with the deepening of the European Economic and Monetary Union […] We must also continue in the social matters”, President Juncker stated.

The full speech in the original languages is available here.