“The industrious solidarity of the beginnings – Mattarella said – seems to have turned into stagnant indifference, into a diffused diffusion, pervasively, at all levels, bringing public opinions, governments, common institutions, to increasingly distrust. We can not ignore this state of affairs, nor ignore how is widespread, among European citizens, the belief that the common project has lost its ability to really meet the growing expectations of large sections of the population; that it can no longer adequately ensure protection, security, work, growth for individuals and communities, with a singular contradiction that simultaneously inflates citizens’ expectations and skepticism about Europe’s ability to respond to it “.
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