Rome, 28 April (LaPresse) – ‘Christianity is the religion of peace, but always a just peace as St John Paul II said. We are committed on all fronts to get there, from Ukraine to the Middle East, from Iran to Sudan. The conversation between Trump and Zelensky was the Pope's latest act for peace, a fundamental step forward'. Thus the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, in an interview with ‘Giornale’. ‘I want to be optimistic, but now everything depends on Russian President Putin. The American proposal can be accepted if it respects territorial integrity and does not consist of a surrender,' Tajani added on the eve of the EPP congress in Valencia. ‘The EPP must build a new Europe, to cut the grass under the feet of the populists and to counter right and left-wing extremism. We need an institutional shot in the arm, we cannot stand still,' he stressed. 'How do we change this EU? By directly electing the president of the Commission, who must also be the president of the European Council, with more powers for the parliament, starting at last with the power of legislative initiative. Then we need to reduce the bureaucratic burden and excessive regulation: we propose that for every new rule introduced, two should be deleted. We will launch a major debate to bring Europe closer to its citizens. Even on the fight against climate change, we need to defend the environment in a way that always keeps man, part of Creation, at the centre, according to the message of Francis, while too many choices so far have sidelined the social issue, with a pantheistic vision à la Timmermans and à la Greta Thunberg,’ Tajani explained