Mattarella: 'Hardness and conflict do not cause the unity of Italy to disperse'

Europe is the dimension, the space in which to think and act. Awareness of this reality is a condition for strengthening that European social model which no one intends to give up and which requires consequent choices on the part of the institutions to sustain. I wish you to face the challenges that await us with all the great energy and high confidence of which you are capable". This was said by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella at the eightieth anniversary of Cida, (Italian Confederation of Managers and High Professionals).

"Your being part of the fabric of the Republic meant, for the leaders, also paying high prices. It happened during terrorism, when the Red Brigades targeted some leaders to try to dismantle references to our model of life", continued the head of state. "Italy would soon defeat terrorism thanks to its civil values ​​and its unity. That underlying unity that must not be lost even when bitterness and substantive contrasts take center stage."

"This year we celebrate together the eightieth anniversary of the life of the Republic. It is accompanied by the eighty years since the foundation of your Confederation, a union of high professionals and this coincidence is of great significance. You were born on the rubble of war, for a better Italy. The progress of the life of our community is closely intertwined, in recent decades, with the role played by those who have held the role of leaders, protagonists in the becoming of a modern state, cohesive among the components of society", added Mattarella.

"People capable of taking the country out of false propaganda myths to govern complex processes, such as those of Italy's entry onto the international scene, onto global markets - he remarked -. We were, in fact, faced with a change of era to which the Republic, with its pro-European choice, would have made a decisive contribution. The title you have chosen for this assembly attests to the desire to continue, going beyond the same specific professionalisms, to contribute, with the values ​​and skills that belong to you, to face the challenges of the new change of era underway. In this process, it urges the reaffirmation of the manager's autonomy together with the social role developed to affirm progress objectives for the entire community, in obedience to the ethics that guides everyone in the exercise of their profession and, as regards public officials, the duty to carry out their activity in the exclusive service of the nation. The contribution offered by managers at various levels for the implementation of the PNRR, so as not to lose its relevance and importance for the recovery of our country after the pandemic, deserves to be remembered. If, in past decades, legislative initiatives in the field of economic freedom and consumer protection can be attributed to your first president, Togni - member of the Constituent Assembly, then parliamentarian and minister, such as those to introduce antitrust rules in an Italian economic society in which there were numerous monopolies, your battle in recent years for fiscal fairness, recalled by President Cuzzilla, should be mentioned", he added.

"Today a new world is being shaped through very rapid transformations - concluded the President of the Republic - We must keep pace with it. It will not be easy to exploit the explosive wave of new digital technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics, placing them at the service not only of greater profits and better efficiency but also of qualitative growth and a productive and social organization that values ​​the person, that always protects his dignity, that strengthens social cohesion. It is a task that involves your daily commitment."

"Private and public management functions, of essential services, of emerging sectors are an essential core of a society that wants to remain the protagonist of its own future. It is about the labor alliance, premise, in our Constitution, of the universal nature of the rights of the person, and at the same time of the duties of political, economic and social solidarity, paradigm of our model of life. An alliance that must be able to look to the future and therefore to young people", he added.