Ours is “a world that does not intend to see the principles of coexistence trampled on”. The Europeans “do not bow to the violence of force: today it is Ukraine and tomorrow we do not know what objectives”. This was stated by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, speaking to Norcia about the war in Ukraine. And he added: «The Italians must and will certainly be uncompromising, determined united.
Mattarella: tragedy that concerns us, freedom in danger
«Yesterday a new tragedy struck Europe, with violence and not on a single country but on the whole of Europe, endangering peace and freedom. And this concerns each of us “warned the head of state.
“The EU cannot accept the madness of war”
And then he pressed: “We cannot accept that the madness of war destroys what the peoples of Europe have been able to build and achieve in these seven decades in terms of collaboration, peace, the search for common goals in the name of humanity. In Europe, then, we did not limit ourselves to rising from the rubble of war, from the horrors of the fratricidal wars in Europe, but a great effort was made, with success, to create a world that was inspired and was composed and made up of reciprocal respect, cooperation, precisely in the search for common objectives “. “The world that was able to overcome the cold war, this world – concluded Mattarella – does not intend to see the principles of international coexistence trampled on”