In the last twenty years there has been a formidable transfer of sovereignty in the economic, monetary and financial fields. Ciampi was one of its driving forces. The European institutions have adjusted in part, at times making unexpected progress, at others falling behind.
Today, while the debate on the completion of economic union continues, other questions have returned to the fore, and are once again among those  'Quei giorni a Scanno fra ’43 e ’44’, in Scritti nella Nuova Antologia, vol. 1, p. 103. See also in the same collection, ‘Diario marzo-aprile 1944’, vol. 2, pp. 31-52, ‘La tragedia di Cassino’, vol. 2, pp.