President Sergio Mattarella on
Saturday stressed the need to complete the process of European
integration as he visited the Aosta Valley to mark of 80th
anniversary of the resistance and liberation of the mountainous
region on the French border at the end of World War II and its
and declaration of autonomy.
"Mountain people know more than anyone that, when there are
emergencies such as natural disasters, an incomplete building
cannot stand," Mattarella said at the University of Valle
d'Aosta.
"There is a risk of not surviving.
"The world is full of emergency conditions, major global
difficulties.
"The European edifice must be completed because it cannot remain
incomplete for long, because it will not withstand the impact of
the events in international life".
He added that the idea of being able to return to individual
national sovereignties was an "'illusion and deception'.
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