The letter addressing Italian Premier Matteo Renzi, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was published by the German daily Die Welt​.

"We call on you to place the younger generation at the center of a new beginning for Europe," the letter stated.

The youth are "the key to the success of a new Europe", according to the letter signed by the likes of crusading Italian anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano, French-German politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and German film director Wim Wenders among others.

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