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Italians, as in other countries, the
Robert Schuman
tecnocrazia e dell’economicismo
che allontanano l’Istituzione
dalla persona.
Il cammino verso gli Stati Uniti
d’Europa va perciò sotto alcuni
aspetti riformato e rimodulato;
la classe politica attuale
ha una grossa ed esaltante
responsabilità storica in merito.
Una parola sbagliata ad alcuni
livelli è in grado di far crollare
le borse e di riflesso bruciare la
capacità protettive finanziarie di
uno Stato. Va infine riconosciuta
l’ispirazione cristiana del
vecchio continente, utile per
rinnovare lo spirito, la coscienza
e di conseguenza le capacità
progettuali in campo sociale,
culturale ed economico. Il nove
maggio si festeggia e assieme
si riparte. Auguriamoci, allora,
che tale ripartenza avvenga
con presupposti incardinati sui
valori del personalismo affinché
non si disperda il nobile spirito
europeista dei padri fondatori.
Buon viaggio, nuova Europa.
conviction was growing that it was
time to start an ambitious project,
indispensable for the well-being and
peace of a community of five hundred
million people. An unprecedented idea
aimed at reconstituting international
and intercontinental balances and
opening up new horizons of economic
and social progress. Its founding fathers
were, together with Robert Schuman
himself, the first Chancellor of the
Federal Republic of Germany Konrad
Adenauer, the Luxembourg politician
Joseph Bech, the last President of the
Council of the Kingdom of Italy and
first of the Republic Alcide De Gasperi,
the councilor French economist Jean
Monnet, the Belgian statesman Paul-
Henri Spaak, the anti-fascist intellectual
Altiero Spinelli. The latter in the early
1940s, together with other political
prisoners confined by the fascist regime
on the island of Ventotene, marked
the profile of federal Europe. It was the
decisive moment when the important
Ventotene Manifesto was born. A
year of confrontation, reasoning and
opposition followed. intelligences
mingling among them; deductions that
were born with a strong and durable
base, powerful in their projection
outside. As the agreement grew, the
extraordinary idea of Europe advanced.
The seeds were already many to bring
to the first treaties. Today, however,
we need a new, more cohesive Europe
if we do not want to fall into the risk
of technocracy and economics that
distance the institution from the
person. The process towards the United
States of Europe must be reformed and
remodeled. Let us hope, then, that this
restart will take place with assumptions
based on the values of personalism so
that the noble pro-European spirit of
the founding fathers is not lost. Have a
good work, new Europe.
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