Thursday, December 18, 2014

Napolitano’s speech: “End of my term imminent ‘- BBC

Napolitano's speech: "End of my term imminent '- BBC



Milan , December 18, 2014 – 11:27

     
     
 

That brought forward by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is” work hard and not without uncertainties. ” But mostly there were “alternative for those who, like us, believe in the potential of this country.” This was underlined by President Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale talking to the Diplomatic Corps to the speech of greeting. The head of state also said that the government’s work is “a brave effort to eliminate some nodes and correct ancient evils that have hampered the development of the country and the unbalanced structure of Italian society and its political system.”



” End of my term imminent ‘

“The coming end of this year and the imminent conclusion of my presidential term – continued the president – will inevitably lead us to make some considerations on the complex and troubled period they are going through Italy, Europe and the world. ”

Renzi: “We will not have problems to elect the head of state”

Napolitano announced the “imminent end of his mandate,” and, in the meantime, the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, on the sidelines of a meeting in Brussels, said that “when Italy will have to deal with the replacement the President of the Republic, will not have any type of problem “:” I believe that the House has learned the lessons of 2013, and I am absolutely convinced – he added – that will do what he has to do on time. ” The premier has also denied any comparison with what is happening in Greece for the election of the President of the Republic, and hoped that “Greece can not solve its problems and continue the way out of the crisis.”

The violence in the world, immigration and the turning US-Cuba

” Serious tensions and unspeakable violence explode the very year in which we remember together the hundred years since the beginning of World War I, and 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the the end of the cold war and the logic of the two blocks in which for decades has been divided over the world, “Napolitano said, referring to what is happening” on the borders of Europe and in geographical areas very close to us, “situations for which the same head of state expressed “great concern.” Then the emphasis on ‘ immigration because “the epochal migration associated with the tragic events in the Middle East and Africa constitute a true emergency European Union and as such need to be addressed.” Finally, a step also on the “historic turning point” in relations between the US and Cuba also due to “the enlightened mediation of the Holy See. ” The head of state has in fact recalled “the dramatic tensions in that opposed the two superpowers that were confronted in a world rigidly divided into blocks.”

“We caught the side of Islam and open»

Napolitano then tackles the issue of the difference between Islam and violent fanaticism: “We believe we are on the same side of Islam, Islam educated, open and civil that has left a deep mark in the history of the world and yet, I am sure , will give an important contribution to the journey of humanity. ” The head of state said then that we must “prevent the dutiful opposition to those who perpetrate violence and terror now seeks to impose a worldview fanatic, archaic and obscurantist be perceived as a conflict between the West and Islam.”

“Worrying growing anti-European parties’

“The election of the new Parliament in Strasbourg, despite a general framework that has seen rapid and alarming growth of movements and Eurosceptic parties or openly anti-European – said Napolitano – have marked a major step forward towards the Europeanisation of political debate within individual member states and to conduct an unprecedented level of political discourse to truly continental. ” “Our common battle – said the head of state – will be to rediscover our young the reasons more than ever of being together and to appreciate the enormous benefits to citizens that European integration has led. ” And Europe, the President of the Republic is confident: “It is undeniable that the commission headed by the President Juncker has a profile more clearly supranational and put an ambitious targets to meet common challenges in a key certainly moreR 21; policy “of those that preceded it.”

December 18, 2014 | 11:27

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