Rome, 1 December (LaPresse) – "The failure to establish a common European defence, which had been envisaged for over 70 years since the Treaty of Paris in 1952, to the conclusions of the Helsinki European Council in December 1999, which envisaged that by 2003 Member States would be able to deploy military forces of up to 50-60,000 troops capable of performing all the tasks set out in the Petersberg Key Areas, is now manifesting all the dramatic consequences of inaction in the integration process. In the changed geopolitical landscape, the Union is now lagging behind, which calls for urgency and vision, not least in order to reduce the current strategic shortcomings'. These were the words of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, when he met the participants of the 21st Italy-Spain Dialogue Forum at the Quirinale.
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