On the occasion of the European Summit of Cultural Heritage, the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, sent a message on Monday, October 7, 2024, in which he emphasized that, for the future of our Europe, culture is fundamental, because it feeds freedom and democracy.
The European Cultural Heritage Summit takes place between October 6-8. PHOTO Europa.eu
Klaus Iohannis welcomed the holding of the European Cultural Heritage Summit in Bucharest.
“We granted this event High Patronage with the conviction that our heritage and the specialists involved in its enhancement have a well-deserved place at the European level in terms of protecting and promoting cultural heritage. Europa Nostra defines itself as the European voice of cultural heritage, which represents the foundation on which was built the humanist spirit and the hope for understanding, dialogue and peace of our continent. The European Cultural Heritage Summit takes place in a context marked by a series of crises with a serious global impact on the peace, security and development of communities and humanity as a whole”the president sent in a message presented by Sergiu Nistor, Presidential Advisor – Department of Culture, Cults and National Minorities, at the event organized at the Romanian Athenaeum.
“A construct and a space of memory”
The President explained, in the same message, that, in such a complicated period, monuments, museums, memorial houses, traditions and their keepers become “all the more important to maintain as cultural landmarks of our core values, to pass on to future generations”:
“The Europe we inherited is a construct and a space of memory. The Union in which we find ourselves today, with the prosperity and security we expect from it, rests ever more strongly on education, interculturality and the fruition of diversity. Cultural heritage has become an irreplaceable resource of prosperity and sustainable development. For the future of our Europe, culture is fundamental, because it feeds freedom and democracy”.
“Do not hesitate to place our cultural treasure in a central place”
Klaus Iohannis added that, in this context, Romania is present in the foreground of the European and universal heritage through the richness of our cultural diversity and through the passion and professionalism of numerous specialists.
“The awards that Europa Nostra awarded to the exemplary restorations in our country, as well as to the civic initiatives from which many of them were born, are an exhortation for the authorities not to hesitate to place our cultural treasure in a central place in the development visions and to engage and more sustained in promoting it as an unmatched competitive advantage. I congratulate the laureates and the organizers and wish all participants a moment of great visibility and consistency in favor of Europe’s cultural heritage“, the president’s message also states.
