Europe should learn from COVID to find common crisis response – Costa

Europe must discover a widespread response to the a number of crises it faces because it did within the COVID-19 pandemic, Antonio Costa advised Euronews.

The Portuguese prime minister spoke on the sidelines of a congress of European socialists over the weekend.

“After we tackled COVID, we got here collectively. We gave a standard response and that helped us to beat this disaster,” stated Costa.

“So we have to be taught the correct classes and do now what we did after we wanted to beat the virus and now we should do it to construct peace.”

He stated that EU international locations had been near discovering a “widespread response” to deal with the vitality disaster, including that they should strengthen interconnections and help companies, jobs and household incomes.

Costa added that the warfare has been a turning level for European politics.

“For instance, on local weather change and insurance policies in direction of vitality transition, it is clear for everybody now we have now to speed up the vitality transition as a result of this dependence that we had on Russia, it’s a weak point for Europe if we wish to be autonomous. If we wish to strengthen our potential to affect international society, we have to be vitality unbiased.”

He urged Europe to be optimistic concerning the future, noting that the continent has confronted a mess of crises in its latest historical past.

“As we did in earlier crises, we can overcome this case by strengthening individuals’s confidence,” he stated.

Watch the interview within the video participant above.