The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, stressed today that the life of your “friend Mário” Soares confuse “with episodes marked the process of building the European Union”, and that Europe loses a little of itself.
The life of Mário Soares, said Juncker, in a statement, “is intertwined with the recent history of Portugal and with episodes marked the process of building the European Union”.
For Juncker, Soares was “proudly Portuguese” and “proudly european”, emphasizing that “with his demise, Portugal and Europe lose a little of yourself.”
on A personal note, Juncker also noted that “my friend Mario never turned his face to the fight and to the responsibilities of a democrat”.
The president of the European Commission, he pointed out, also, “the resistance to the dictatorship and the fight determined by a transition of his country to democracy”, whereas Soares “symbol and architect of this process.”
“Mário Soares has helped to make irreversible a process of democratization that alastraria in the South of Europe and Portugal, but also Spain and Greece, on the path of accession to the european project, the anchor of these democratic values”, and considered it.
“The life of Mário Soares leaves us in a time when we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the accession of Portugal to the then European Economic Community where, no surprise, is your name in the treaty of accession”, he wrote.
The former President of the Republic Mário Soares has died today at the age of 92, at the Red Cross Hospital, where he was hospitalized since December 13.
Mário Soares played to the highest positions in the country and his life is intertwined with the history of Portuguese democracy: he fought against the dictatorship, was the founder of the PS and the President of the Republic.
Born 07 December 1924, in Lisbon, Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares was the founder and first leader of the PS, and the minister of Foreign Affairs after the revolution of 25 April 1974.
Prime minister between 1976 and 1978 and between 1983 and 1985, was Soares to ask the membership of the then European Economic Community (EEC) in 1977, and to sign the respective treaty, in 1985. In 1986, he won the presidential elections and was the President of the Republic during two terms, until 1996.
my sincere condolences to all the Portuguese in the death of Mário Soares https://t.co/HOyDZUqjxf
— Jean-Claude Juncker (@JunckerEU) 7 January 2017
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