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"Mr Napolitano, it is with the greatest pleasure that we welcome you to the European Parliament as the President of the Italian Republic. You are, of course, very familiar with this House, as you have been an active and respected Member yourself. I take this opportunity to offer a warm welcome to your wife, Mrs Napolitano
who is with you today on this visit to the European Parliament and is watching from the gallery. You led this Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs wisely and effectively, displaying staunchly pro-European beliefs that you have kept intact in your current position as the Italian Head of State.
I am also delighted to greet everyone who is watching this event live on television in Italy, as well as the students and staff in many Italian universities who are linked up to Parliament via satellite as part of the project titled ‘Towards the European Constitution’.
Mr President, let me, today, welcome you, Giorgio Napolitano, the dedicated European, most warmly to the House of which you were formerly a Member.
Fifty years on from the signing of the Treaties of Rome, you, both in your person and by virtue of your office as Italy’s supreme representative, demonstrate the central part that your country has played in the process of European integration. You embody Italy’s European tradition, which goes back to Alcide de Gasperi.
‘From Rome to Rome’ is the phrase often used to sum up the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, but it is not only Rome that is at the heart of European history, but other Italian cities as well. The Messina Conference in 1955 was aimed at leading Europe – then only recently united – out of the crisis resulting from the rejection of the Defence Community. The European Economic Community was founded less than two years later.
Mr Napolitano, Italy has always been one of the main pillars of the process of European integration. We are confident that your commitment and that of your country will help to move this process swiftly forwards once again. Therefore, President, please take the floor to address the House."@en1
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