The President said that the current situation had raised fundamental questions in the public: whether the European values were equally understood throughout Europe; whether refugees would accept our values; how much we were able to defend our values outside the EU. Raimonds Vējonis indicated like the other participants of the meeting and asked to think how Europe could be supported in the ideals and how the European internal solidarity could be strengthened.
During the first panel discussion of the Arraiolos Group meeting “Strengthening Cohesion in Europe” in Wartburg, Germany on Monday, the Presidents also discussed the importance of the shared values in the single EU policy. Similarly, the parties discussed the issues that unified Europe and what the unity ensured to European citizens and to each Member State as a nation, what united Europe should stand for and how the EU could be active and decisive participant of the global politics, including solving the refugee problem.