«Remember the ideal legacy of those founding events», such as the Liberation struggle and the republican choice, «It is a civic duty and a precious opportunity to reflect together on the reasons that animate the life of
our community, inserted today in the broader community of the European Union to which we decided to give life with other free peoples of the continent and whose sovereignty we will consecrate, in a few days, with the election of the European Parliament”. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, underlines this in a message to the prefects of Italy on the occasion of 2 June.
Then speaking on the occasion of the concert at the Quirinale in honor of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Italian State on the occasion of Republic Day, Mattarella he also spoke about the war in Ukraine: «With the invasion of Ukraine – an independent and sovereign country – Russia brought the war back to the heart of Europe and once again dug a furrow between the countries of the continent that we dreamed of in peace and collaboration, free and democratic from Lisbon to Vladivostok”, said the head of state. «The Russian Federation – he added – has demolished the security architecture that has guaranteed peace and stability on the European continent for long decades, since the Helsinki Agreements of the mid-seventies; and has launched a new, distressing, arms race.” According to the Head of State «this behavior is all the more serious as it was carried out by one of the countries on which the greatest responsibilities fall in the international communityas a permanent member of the Security Council.”
