a minute agoKurti after Sassol's death: Kosovo friend, man who brought European values to EU institutions
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Prime Minister Albin Kurti has written after the death of European Parliament President Davide Sussol. Kurti has written on Twitter that Sassol was a friend of Kosovo and a man who brought European bees to EU institutions. “We are saddened by news of the death of David Susssol, president of the European Parliament, friend of Kosovo and a man [...]
Kurti has written on Twitter that Sassol was a friend of Kosovo and a man who brought European bees to EU institutions.
“We are saddened by the news of the death of David Susssol, president of the European Parliament, friend of Kosovo, and a man who truly brought European values to EU institutions. We're going to miss you”, Kurt wrote.
Sassol has died as a result of a serious illness.
The news was made known by his spokesman through a tweet.
President Susssol changed his life at 1:15 a.m. on January 11th at the Aviano Hospital in Italy. The date and location of the funeral will be communicated in the coming hours”, he wrote.
65-year-old Susssol had been hospitalised since 26 December, due to a serious complications caused by the failure of the immune system.
Sassol, an Italian centre-left politician, was also treated at a French pneumonia hospital in September.
Sassol was elected president of the European Parliament in 2019. His mandate would end this month and was not expected to seek a second.
Because of the illness, he was unable to lead the Strasbourg-based parliament in recent weeks and missed the European Commission's annual event for the union situation in September.
