Brussels – The Arche Foundation, Youth Opera “Giorgio La Pira”, Pegasus association and the Italian-Moroccan activist Nawal Soufi are the four Italian winners of the European Citizen Award in 2016, awarded this year to fifty people, associations and organizations from the 28 Member States. The jury, chaired by the Vice President of the European Parliament Sylvie Guillaume (S & D, FR) and composed of the Vice Presidents Ildikó Gallo-Pelcz (EPP, HU), Anneli Jaatteemaki (ALDE, FI) and Dimitrios Papadimoulis (GUE / NGL, GR) and former president of the European Parliament Enrique Barón (S & D, ES), announced the names of the winners from among the 79 candidates. The four Italian winners will be awarded Friday, September 23, 2016 in Florence, in the Historical Archives of the European Union. All fifty winners will then be invited to the European Parliament in Brussels on October 12 and 13. (9Colonne)
