(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 28 - The European Union needs to move from unanimous to majority voting in order to avoid paralysis in decision-making in key areas like foreign and security policy, President Sergio Mattarella told Czech counterpart Petr Pavel in Rome Tuesday.
    "In foreign and security policy, Europe must speak with one voice", he said.
    "Europe is a bearer of peace, civilisation, promotion of rights, opening of markets, culture but, in the face of epochal global challenges, characterised by the presence of large subjects and large aggregations, it needs to be more cohesive and efficient, but above all it is necessary to overcome, at least for some issues, unanimous voting and move to a majority vote of the members" especially in view of new enlargements of the Union".
    Otherwise, Mattarella said, "we risk decision-making paralysis and irrelevance on the world stage". (ANSA).