Mattarella: «The EU is the space in which to act, we need to strengthen the social model»

«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 hope you face the challenges that await us with all the great energy and high confidence of which you are capable." The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella said this on the eightieth anniversary of Cida, the Italian Confederation of managers and high professionals.

«Your being part of the fabric of the Republic also meant paying high prices for the leaders. It happened during terrorism, when the Red Brigades targeted some leaders to try to dismantle references to our model of life." «Italy would soon have defeated 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".

«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".