The European Union, which will shortly, after the polls on 8 and 9 June, see its Parliament renewed, has also recently confirmed and intensified its support for Ukraine, coordinating in a widespread manner the initiatives undertaken and undertaken , with partners and allies.

The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, on the occasion of the celebrations for Republic Day, wanted to recall how precious the contribution of the country "and within it of the Armed Forces, to the cause of international peace and stability... in today's situation characterized from devastation and attacks on civilian populations in Europe and the Middle East".

The President of the Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, as reported by the Ansa agency, at the Imperial Forums for Republic Day, and with reference to the European Union, declared that "we should return to that embryonic European dream", that is “an idea of Europe that imagined that its strength, the strength of its union, was also the strength and specificity of national states”.

Well. The recent events of international importance, which have taken place from 24 February 2022 to today, and the declarations of the country's highest representatives, would seem to induce and should inspire a profound reflection on the values and common interests that Europe, in all its subjective consistency, should be rediscovered, identified ex novo, and shared unanimously.

The new "constitutional season", if it can be defined as such, which seems to be coming to common attention as a result of the announced reforms, seems to have contributed to reawakening interest around the theme, fundamental in the current context, of European identity and the significant value to be attributed to the same. What importance, therefore, is given in our times to what has always been sought to be the central and essential element of the acquis communautaire? In view of the next polls, might it be necessary to think of a new governance model? What new model of Europe, or new and/or renewed common identity do you intend to build? Would it be possible today to pick up the project for a European Constitution where we left off?

In this regard, it will probably not be superfluous to remember that L. Febvre, way back in 1944, wrote that Europe had represented almost a "refuge" for those who still wanted to believe, following the world wars, in the possible existence of a society respectful of human and citizen rights, and in a peaceful organizational system of nation states. Nor will it be superfluous to observe how the (re)construction (if we can call it that) of the cultural and spiritual unity of this Europe of current times, can and must be considered as a necessary condition, and/or founding presupposition, to be able to bring to completion any political project, even if only and simply by renewing it, in adaptation to the contingent geopolitical vicissitudes. In the meantime, because the construction and/or reconstruction of a European identity as such does not seem to be possible without the agreed identification of common and shared symbols and values. Therefore, why, the rediscovery of the European identity profile, in no way should and/or could ignore a strong and conscious feeling of belonging to a habitual, usual and ordinary dimension of civilization. Finally, because even just feeling like European citizens would seem to have as a corollary what would generally be defined as a "sense of belonging" aimed at researching and identifying a set of values that can be qualified as truly identifying and qualifying Europe, which, far from being conceived as a pure and simple union of States, should rather be considered as an organized structure with its own specific and defined cultural identity, within which each Member delegates part of its sovereignty while remaining in equal status with others. Saying it differently, what is commonly defined as the transfer of sovereignty would seem to constitute, as in fact it does, an essential element of being together for the creation of shared balances by virtue of which each Member State contributes, in concert with the others, and in a position of equality, to the construction of common rules. The European Union which has already, over the past long years, guaranteed peace throughout the entire continent, can still, and better, continue to guarantee it, and it does not seem possible to ignore it as the European Union, the social and human nature that it represents and circumscribes, is embodied in the sharing of what were identified from the beginning as fundamental values, namely the constant commitment to the creation of lasting peace, equality, freedom, security, unity, and last, but not least, solidarity. Multiculturalism, prohibition of discrimination and principle of equal treatment: these are the characteristic features. The founding elements that can contribute to strengthening the role of the European Union as a peace mediator and necessary interlocutor in international mediations.

Giuseppina Di Salvatore – Lawyer, Nuoro

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