The new president of the European Union’s top executive body used a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau to underscore the need for a united Europe to build a future based on human rights. “The new Europe has to be the Europe of rights recognized and practiced, the Europe of free people living in solidarity, the Europe that enforces right and justice,” Romano Prodi, a former Italian prime minister, wrote in the visitors book at the former Nazi death camp.
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