Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin gave an interview to the Naples daily Il Mattino, in which he relaunched the idea of a new Helsinki conference. However, “The bitter reality is this: neither the attackers nor the attacked agree at this time to sit at the negotiating table,” Parolin says. Despite that, all efforts must be made. “A new Helsinki must be our goal today. We need to recover that spirit, working with creativity. We need to face this crisis, this war and the many forgotten wars with new tools and outside the old logic of military alliances and ideological and economic colonialism. … Why, then, not work together to bring about a new, great European Conference?”
Parolin exposed the failure of European countries: “It is necessary to ask: does Europe still believe in the rules that it gave itself after World War II, thanks to the foresight of its founding fathers?” The answer is clear: “Those principles and rules that Europe gave itself at the end of the conflict sometimes appear to be blurring.”
