“Yes, Europe needs to be ‘rebuilt’”, as Pope Francis says. Today, conflicts and aggressions prevail over dialogue in Europe. The interests of individual states prevail over the European common good. Relations between member states have become fragile, selfish, based almost exclusively on economic interests. And walls are being rebuilt which we thought had fallen forever”. Edward Zin, biographer of Robert Schuman, is vice-president of the “St Benedict, Patron of Europe, Institute” and a supporter of the beatification cause of Robert Schuman, one of the “founding fathers” of European integration together with Konrad Adenauer and Alcide De Gasperi. On his return flight from Mexico, Pope Francis addressed the press reflecting on the European Union. “Today, is there a Schuman, an Adenauer?”, he asked, “these great ones who after the war ‘founded’ the European Union…? I like this idea of the re-foundation: I wish it could be done! I would not say that Europe is ‘unique’, but it has a force, it has a culture, a history that cannot be wasted. And we should do everything we can so that the European Union has the strength and the inspiration to go forward”. Mr Zin told SIR: “First the euro crisis, and now we see the lack of political will to ensure a decent reception for migrants, disintegrating trends… All this shows that we have lost one of the fundamental pillars of the construction of Europe envisaged by Schuman, Adenauer, and De Gasperi – solidarity”.