Responsibility begins with us. Vaccinating oneself – among many examples – is a duty not in obedience to an abstract principle, but because it arises from the concrete reality that demonstrates that the vaccine is the most effective tool we have to defend ourselves and to protect the weakest and most exposed to serious dangers. An act of love towards them, as Pope Francis said a few days ago ». The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella says this when inaugurating the CL Meeting underway in Rimini.
Duty, responsibility, community
Duty, responsibility, community: these are terms that the head of state repeats several times during his speech. Due to Covid, he remarks, “we have found ourselves more fragile than we thought”. “We understood more clearly – below, the line – that we need the support of others. We have experienced pain, fear, loneliness. But in the community we found precious resources, decisive to ensure that our hopes, our aspirations were not uprooted and could still find confirmation and development ».
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The reference to Afghanistan
The President of the Republic then addressed the crisis in Afghanistan, without mentioning it directly. “History constantly teaches us how many threats there are to freedom and how many sacrifices are required to conquer it – he insisted -. It also shows us that it is an indivisible good between women and men of every continent. We realize how much the lack of freedom or the loss of it in other places in the world affects our conscience and affects the common coexistence in the increasingly integrated world community ”.
Enough mortifying dullness in the EU
From the head of state also the invitation to overcome anti-historical entrenchments in Europe, «The European Union becomes the engine of a new development in our countries, a more balanced and sustainable development. It is a historic opportunity that we must know how to grasp and transform into a new, better and stable balance “, he says. And he underlines again that “there is an I, a you and a us also for Europe and for its responsibilities, against all narrow-mindedness, against mortifying dullness mixed with hypocrisy, which are manifested even in these days which are the result of entrenchments anti-historical and, in reality, self-defeating ». In the global world, Mattarella argues, “we win together, we lose together. The virus crisis confirms this. We will still have to fight the pandemic. But our responsibility is to imagine tomorrow. We feel that the desire to leave is growing: the engine is the confidence that we will be able to improve ourselves, that we will be able to lead our country forward ».