While welcoming the report of the Group of Eminent Persons on “Living together – Combining diversity and freedom in 21st-century Europe”, the Assembly today encouraged politicians and elected representatives at all levels to speak out on the challenges raised at present “by the threats to the European project and solidarity”. Europe is multicultural and European peoples have proved their capacity to live together in diversity, the adopted text underlines. Although multiculturalism is facing increasing difficulties at national level, the Assembly “firmly believes that assimilation is not an alternative”. ( more...)