And the paradox is that each country is much more at risk of losing its specific identity if it is exposed without protection, that is, without this European shield, to the global forces which are violently and blatantly supranational, which disregard local issues and specificities”. Let me finish with an anecdote about Tommaso, to whom we are dedicating this professorship today.
The decisions we took this week demonstrated that we are ready and able to play our part.