(ANSA) - BELGRADE, JUN 18 - "Europe is a moving factory, a process of decisive and continuous strengthening, intended to defend and protect the well-being and security of our peoples," said Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani, speaking in Sicily to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Messina and Taormina Conference, which laid the groundwork for the establishment of the European Economic Community in 1955. The meeting aims to remember the political vision that inspired every decisive step in the construction of the European project, which began in Sicily with the commitment of the ECSC's six founding countries, and to relaunch the common commitment to enlargement. The celebrations, chaired by Minister Antonio Tajani, will begin today in Messina with a tribute to Foreign Affairs Minister Gaetano Martino, followed by the ministerial meeting's inauguration ceremony at Taormina's Teatro Antico. Tajani will chair the ministerial meeting tomorrow, which will discuss enlargement, reforms, and the Union's future. The initiative involves all of the Union's Member States, but particularly the candidate and potential candidate countries. Among the participants are the Ministers of Foreign Affairs or European Affairs of France, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Poland, and Serbia, as well as Marta Kos, the EU Commissioner for Enlargement. (ANSA).