The topic that seems to have captured general attention over the past week is the speech by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the Ventotene Manifesto in the Chamber, where she declared, according to press reports, that "the Europe of the Ventotene Manifesto is not (her) Europe". Whether, as some have pointed out, it may have been merely an argumentative strategy to avoid having to reveal the diversity of views existing within the government majority on the thorny issue of rearmament, or the convinced (and legitimate) thinking of the declarant, probably would not seem to have too much relevance from an exegetical, or purely interpretative, point of view.

What emerges, it would seem (the conditional is necessary) is rather the potential weakness not only of the Italian government, within which important differences of opinion appear to be beginning to emerge, especially with Matteo Salvini's League increasingly close to the positions of the Trump Administration, but also, and above all, and consequently, of the European Union, of which Italy is a founding country.

In this context, that declaration should, in fact, be framed. Saying it differently, that declaration, probably extemporaneous in the context of reference (the doubtful formula is imposed), that is, precisely when the profound weakness of the European Union and of the twenty-seven countries that compose it seems to emerge, could be the reflection of the current lack, at European level, of that longed-for idea of "Federation" useful to confer to the current European Union itself the political and legal status necessary to concretely impose itself as an international player in a geopolitical context in progress and difficult to understand if related to the historical, and now obsolete, division between West and East.

The brand new and unprecedented position of the United States of Donald Trump seems to have contributed, as a determining factor, to destabilize, in general, the Old Continent, for years aligned with the positions of the American ally, on which it had probably placed unquestioned reliance, postponing from time to time the relevant questions concerning its composition and structure that remained in an embryonic condition. An embryonic condition that a pure and simple, as well as onerous, rearmament policy would not be suitable to develop. The ally, led by Donald Trump, if we wanted to use a metaphor, has reversed course, and the European Union seems to have stumbled.

The European Union, and therefore essentially the twenty-seven Member States, beyond and beyond the internal divisions, which would appear to be nothing more than a demonstration of the political fragility that still exists on fundamental issues, should begin to lay the foundations for the construction of that single and unitary Federation that represents the true and concrete response to the power of both Donald Trump's United States of America and Vladimir Putin's Russia.

The individual Member States, considered in and of themselves, do not seem to be able to aspire to any affirmation, and the divisions, both internal and European, would seem to confirm nothing other than the irrelevance of the Old Continent on the international level.

Giuseppina Di Salvatore – Lawyer, Nuoro

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